Teofila Suwińska, daughter of Ludwik Suwiński and Teofila Niska, was born on 17 November 1862 in Bedy, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. She was baptized in the parish church in Pałuki, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 18 November 1862.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Teofila Suwińska – 1862
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Gotarda (Pałuki, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “ Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1861-1865 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1861-1865 ],” folio 28 recto, entry 165, Paulina Suwińska, 18 Nov 1862; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1904; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,613.
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 Teofila Suwińska. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Bedy 165.
This happened in Pałuki on the eighteenth day of November in the year one-thousand eight-hundred sixty-two at the hour of one in the afternoon. There appeared Ludwik Suwiński, owner of a part [of the village] and residing in Bedy, thirty-two years of age, in the presence of Walenty Kołakowski, thirty-four years of age, and Jan Suwiński, thirty-three years of age, owners of parts [of the village] and residing in Bedy, and he showed Us a child of the female sex born in this village yesterday at the hour of twelve noon of his wife Teofila née Niska, thirty years of age. To this child at Holy Baptism performed on this day was given the name Teofila, and her Godparents were Michał Flaszyński and Aniela Suwińska. This document was read aloud to the declarant and witnesses and they do not know how to write, it was signed by Us alone.
[signed] The Reverend Ksawery Nałecz, Pastor of Pałuki, Maintaining the Records of the Civil State
Teofila Suwińska was the niece of Józef Andrzej Suwiński, the husband of Marianna Chodkowska, my 3rd cousin 3X removed.
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