Błażej Chodkowski (son of Jan Chodkowski and Józefata Grzybowska; widower after the death of his wife Józefa Gożdziewska) and Agnieszka Łyszkowska (daughter of Ignacy Łyszkowski and Marianna Krzyżewska) were married in the parish church in Krasne, Przasnysz Obwód, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 31 January 1838.
The Marriage Record of Błażej Chodkowski and Agnieszka Łyszkowska – 1838
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela (Krasne, Przasnysz Obwód, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1826-1840. [Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths 1826-1840.],” pages 55-56, entry 2, Błażej Chodkowski and Agnieszka Łyszkowska, 31 Jan 1838; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1892; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,793.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record of Błażej Chodkowski and Agnieszka Łyszkowska. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
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Mosaki Rukle. This happened in the village of Krasne on the nineteenth / thirty first day of January in the year one-thousand eight-hundred thirty-eight at the hour of four in the afternoon. We make it known that in the presence of witnesses Paweł Milewski, thirty years of age, and Leon Chodkowski, twenty-two years of age, both owners of parts [of the village] and residing in the village of Mosaki Rukle, on this day a religious marriage was contracted between Błażej Chodkowski, a well-born widower residing in the village of Mosaki Rukle on his parts [of the village], there with the married couple Jan Chodkowski and Józefa née Grzybowska no longer living there, residing there during his life, twenty-seven years of age, husband of Józefa née Gożdziewska who died on the twenty-eighth day of March / ninth day of April in the year one-thousand eight-hundred thirty, and the young woman Agnieszka, daughter of the married couple, the deceased Ignacy and Marianna Łyszkowski, residing in the village of Mosaki Rukle on their parts [of the village] seventeen years of age, born in the village of Kobylin in the parish of Węgrzynowo and living with her mother. This wedding was preceded by three readings of the banns on the second, ninth, and sixteenth days / fourteenth, twenty-first, and twenty-eighth days of the same month and year in the parish of Krasne, as well as by the oral consent of the bride who was present for [the recording of] this record of marriage. No impediment to the marriage arose. The newlyweds stated that they had made no prenuptial agreement between them. This document was read aloud to the declarants and witnesses who do not know how to write.
[signed] The Reverend Józef Bońkowski, Pastor of Krasne
Błażej Chodkowski was my 1st cousin, 5X removed.
Although this record states that Błażej’s first wife, Józefa Grzybowska, died on 09 February 1830, she actually died on 17 February 1836. Note the double dates throughout this record. The first part of the date is calculated in the Julian Calendar and the second part is calculated in the Gregorian Calendar. We use the Gregorian Calendar today.
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