Napoleon Chodkowski, son of Jacek Roch Chodkowski and Ewa Krzyżewska, was born on 23 January 1810 in Mosaki-Rukle, Krasne Gmina, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Department, Duchy of Warsaw. He was baptized in the parish church in Krasne, Krasne Gmina, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Department, Duchy of Warsaw on 23 January 1810.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Napoleon Chodkowski - 1810
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela (Krasne, Krasne Gmina, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Department, Duchy of Warsaw), “Akta Cywilne Urodzenuch i Zejscia Gmina Krasińskiey 1809. [Civil Records of Births and Deaths in the Krasne Gmina 1809.],” folios 18R and 18V, Napoleon Chodkowski, 23 Jan 1810; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1892; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,791, Item 3.
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 Napoleon Chodkowski. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Mosaki-Rukle.In the year one-thousand eight-hundred ten, on the twenty-third day of the month of January at the hour of four in the evening, before Us, the pastor of Krasne, performing the duties of the Registrar of the Civil State of the Krasne Gmina, Przasnysz Powiat, in the Płock Department. There appeared the well-born Jacek Chotkowski, owner of a part [of the village], forty-four years of age, residing in Mosaki-Rukle, and he showed Us a child of the male sex which was born in his home under the number two on the twenty-third day of January in the same year, stating that the child was begotten of him and his wife Ewa née Krzyżkowska, forty-two years of age, and that it is his wish to confer on him the name Napoleon. After making the above statement and showing [Us] the child, in the presence of the well-born Walenty Niedziałkowski, owner of a part [of the village], thirty years of age and residing in Mosaki-Rukle, together with Kacper Łyszkowski, fifty years of age and owner of a part [of the village], residing in that same village in the Krasne Gmina . After which this birth record was read aloud to the declarants and was signed by Us, inasmuch as none of the witnesses know how to write.
The Reverend Franciszek Sułkowski, pastor of Krasne, performing the duties of the Registrar of the Civil State.
Napoleon Chodkowski was my 4th cousin 4X removed. He was named, we might suppose, after Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, the man who defeated the occupiers of the Polish lands and the creator of the Duchy of Warsaw in which the family then resided.
Copyright © 2009 by Stephen J. Danko
