Józef Chodkowski, son of Leon Chodkowski and Konstancja Milewska, was born on 22 March 1854 in Mosaki Rukle, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized in the parish church in Krasne, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 23 March 1854.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Józef Chodkowski – 1854
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela (Krasne, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1852-1858 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1852-1858],” folio 11 recto, entry 38, Józef Chodkowski, 23 Mar 1854; 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:
38. [Mosaki]-Rukle . This happened in the village of Krasne on the eleventh / twenty-third day of March in the year one-thousand eight-hundred fifty-four at the hour of one in the afternoon. There appeared Leon Chodkowski, owner of a part [of the village] and residing in [Mosaki]-Rukle, thirty-eight years of age, in the presence of Kacper Chodkowski, twenty-four years of age, and Błażej Chodkowski, forty-five years of age, both owners of a part [of the village] and residing in [Mosaki]-Rukle, and he showed Us a child of the male sex born in the village of [Mosaki]-Rukle yesterday at the hour of seven in the morning of his wife Konstancja née Milewska, thirty-four years of age. To this child at Holy Baptism performed on this day was given the name Józef, and his godparents were the afore-mentioned Kacper Chodkowski and Teresa Milewska. This document was read aloud to the declarants and witnesses who do not know how to write.
      [signed] The Reverend Karol Przystański, Head of the Parish of Krasne, maintaining the records of the Civil State
Józef Chodkowski was my 3rd cousin 3X removed.
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