Karol Chodkowski, son of Józef Chodkowski and Maryanna Trętowska, was born on 27 August 1853 in Klonowo, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized in the parish church in Pałuki, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 28 August 1853.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Karol Chodkowski – 1853
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Gotarda (Pałuki, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1852-1860 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1852-1860],” folio 17 recto, entry 99, Karol Chodkowski, 28 Aug 1853; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1904; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,612.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Karol Chodkowski. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Klonowo 99.
    This happened in Pałuki on the sixteenth / twenty-eighth day of August in the year one-thousand eight-hundred fifty-three at the hour of one in the afternoon . There appeared Józef Chodkowski, owner of a part [of his village], residing in Klonowo, thirty years of age, in the presence of Anzelm Brzozowski of Długołęcka, seventy-five years of age, and Piotr Kołokowski from Osyski, twenty-six years of age, owners of parts [of their villages], and he showed Us a child of the male sex, born in Klonowo yesterday at the hour of five in the morning of his wife Marianna née Trętowska, twenty-one years of age . To this child at Holy Baptism performed on this day was given the name Karol, and his Godparents were the afore-mentioned Piotr Kołakowski and his wife Teofila . This document was read aloud to the declarant and witnesses and, because they do not know how to write, it was signed only by Us.
 [signed] The Reverend Ksawery Nałęcz, Pastor of Pałuki
Karol Chodkowski was my 3rd cousin, 3X removed.
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