Leon Chodkowski, son of Jan Chodkowski and Marianna Obidzińska, was born on 15 November 1816 in Mosaki Rukle, Prasnysz Obwód, Płock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized in the parish church in Krasne, Prasnysz Obwód, Płock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 17 November 1816.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Leon Chodkowski – 1816
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela (Krasne, Prasnysz Obwód, Płock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1808-1817 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1808-1817],” folio 9 recto and verso, entry 33, Leon Chodkowski, 17 Nov 1816; 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 Leon Chodkowski. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
No 33Â Mosaki Rukle
In the year one-thousand eight-hundred sixteen on the seventeenth day of the month of November at the hour of five in the afternoon, before Us, the Reverend Mikołaj Ruciński, Assistant Registrar of the Civil State in the Krasne Gmina, Przasnysz Obwód in the Płock Voivodeship, there appeared the well-born Jan Chodkowski, landowner, thirty-six years of age and residing in Mosaki Rukle, and he showed Us a child of the male sex which was born in his home under the number eleven on the fifteenth day of November in this same year at the hour of six in the evening, declaring to Us that he was begotten of him and his wife Marianna née Obidzińska Chodkowska, twenty years of age, and that it is his wish to give him the name Leon. After making the above statement and showing Us the child, in the presence of the well-born Jan Milewski, an unrelated landowner, forty years of age and residing in Mosaki Rukle, together with the Honest Mateusz Bukład, an unrelated peasant farmer, fifty-six years of age and settled in Kurowy. This birth record was read aloud to the declarants and was signed by Us, the Assistant Registrar of the Civil State, inasmuch as the people mentioned in the record do not know how to write.
[signed] The Reverend Mikołaj Ruciński, Assistant Registrar of the Civil State in the Krasne Gmina
Leon Chodkowski was my 2nd cousin 4X removed.
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