Wojciech Chodkowski, son of Maciej Chodkowski and Paulina Bartołd, was born on 16 April 1840 in Mosaki-Rukle, Przasnysz Obwód, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized in the parish church in Krasne, Przasnysz Obwód, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 17 April 1840.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Wojciech Chodkowski – 1840
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.],” page 12, entry 31, Wojciech Chodkowski, 17 Apr 1840; 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 Birth and Baptismal Record of Wojciech Chodkowski. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
31 Mosaki-Rukle. This happened in the village of Krasne on the fifth / seventeenth day of April in the year one-thousand eight-hundred forty at the hour of three in the afternoon. There appeared Mateusz Chodkowski, owner of a part [of the village], forty-three years of age, residing in Mosaki-Rukle, accompanied by Maciej Niedziałkowski, fifty-four years of age, and Marcjan Obidziński, fifty-five years of age, both owners of parts [of the village] and residing in Mosaki-Rukle, and he showed Us a child of the male sex born in Mosaki-Rukle yesterday at the hour of eleven at night of his wife Paulina née Bartołd, twenty-four years of age. To this child at Holy Baptism performed on this day was given the name Wojciech, and his Godparents were Faustyn Niedziałkowski and Wiktoria Niedziałkowska. 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
Wojciech Chodkowski was my 3rd cousin 3X removed.
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