Józef Chodkowski, son of Mikołaj Chodkowski and Antonina Pajewska, was born on 15 September 1818 in Mosaki-Rukle, Przasnysz Obwód, Płock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized in the parish church in Krasne, Przasnysz Obwód, Płock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 16 September 1818.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Józef Chodkowski – 1818
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela (Krasne, Przasnysz Obwód, Płock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1818-1825 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1818-1825],” folio 7 recto, entry 32, Józef Chodkowski, 16 Sep 1818; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1892; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,792.
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:
No 32 . Mosaki-Rukle
In the year one-thousand eight-hundred eighteen on the sixteenth day of the month of September at the hour of eleven before noon, before Us, the Reverend Mikołaj Ruciński, Registrar of the Civil State in the Krasne Gmina, Przasnysz Obwód, in the Płock Voivodeship, there appeared the well-born Mikołaj Chodkowski, a landowner, twenty-one 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 three on the fifteenth day of the month of September in this same year at the hour of eleven before noon; declaring that the child was begotten of him and his wife Antonina née Pajewska Chodkowska, twenty-five years of age, and that it is his wish to give him the name Józef. After making the above statement and showing Us the child, in the presence of the well-born Jan Milewski, fifty-two years of age, together with Walenty Niedziałkowski, forty-two years of age, both unrelated landowners and neighbors residing in Mosaki Rukle, this birth record was read aloud to the declarants and signed by Us, the Registrar of the Civil State, inasmuch as the others in the record do not know how to write.
[signed] The Reverend Mikołaj Ruciński, Registrar of the Civil State
Józef Chodkowski was my 2nd cousin 4X removed.
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