Józefa Gożdziewska daughter of Wojciech Gożdziewski and Anna Kierzkowska, was born on 17 February 1812 in Głowko, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Department, Duchy of Warsaw. She was baptized in the parish church in Krasne, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Department, Duchy of Warsaw on 17 February 1812.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Józefa Gożdziewska – 1812
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela (Krasne, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Department, Duchy of Warsaw), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1808-1817. [Records of births, marriages, deaths 1808-1817],” folio 16B verso & 17 recto, entry 62, Jożefa Gożdziewska, 17 Feb 1812; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1892; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,791.
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 Józefa Gożdziewska. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Głowko . 62.
In the year one-thousand eight-hundred twelve, on the seventeenth day of the month of February at the hour of two in the afternoon, before Us, the Vicar and Preacher of the Parish of Krasne, Civil Registrar of the Krasne Gmina, Przasnysz Powiat in the Płock Department, there appeared the well-born Wojciech Gożdziewski, thirty years of age and residing in Głowko, owner of his parts [of the village], and he showed us a child of the female sex who was born in his home under the number one on the seventeenth day of the month of February of the same year at the hour of eight in the morning, stating to Us that she was born of him and his wife, Anna née Kierzkowska, twenty-six years of age, and that it is his wish to give her the name Józefa. After making the above statement and showing Us the child, in the presence of the well-born Józef Gożdziewski, forty-two years of age, residing in Głowko, owner of his parts [of the village], together with Wawrzeniec Osowski, settled in this village, owner of his parts [of the village] located in Antosy Gmina, sixty years of age, whereupon this birth document was read aloud and signed by Us inasmuch as the declaring parties and witnesses do not know how to write.
[signed] The Reverend Paweł Głogowski, Vicar and Preacher of the Parish of Krasne, Civil Registrar
Józefa Gożdziewska would later become the wife of my 1st cousin, 5X removed, Błażej Chodkowski.
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