Józef Chodkowski, son of Franciszek Chodkowski and Franciszka Pszczółkowska, was born on 27 January 1856 in Mosaki Rukle, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized in the parish church in Krasne, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 27 January 1856.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Józef Chodkowski – 1856
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela (Krasne, Przasnysz Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1852-1858 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1852-1858],” folio 3 verso, entry 7, Józef Chodkowski, 27 Jan 1856; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1892; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,795.
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 Józef Chodkowski. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Nr7 Rukle
This happened in Krasne on the fifteenth / twenty-seventh day of January in the year one-thousand eight-hundred fifty-six at the hour of two in the afternoon. There appeared Franciszek Chodkowski, owner of a part of [Mosaki] Rukle, twenty four years of age, accompanied by Faustyn Niedziałkowski, seventy years of age, and Maciej Niedziałkowski, twenty-eight years of age, owners of parts of [Mosaki] Rukle and he showed Us a child of the male sex born in [Mosaki] Rukle today at the hour of eleven before noon of his wife Franciszka née Pszczółkowska, twenty-six years of age. To this child at Holy Baptism performed today was given the name Józef and his Godparents were Wojciech Gożdziewski and Zofia Rzewnicka, both from Ślasy Złotki. This document was read aloud to the declarants and witnesses of whom none knows how to write, and was signed by Us.
  [signed] The Reverend Igdi Godlewski, Pastor of the Parish of Krasne, maintaining the civil registers
Józef Chodkowski was my 3rd cousin, 3X removed.
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