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<\/a><\/p>\nBirth and Baptismal Record of J\u00f3zef Chmielewski – 1874 (Left)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Birth and Baptismal Record of J\u00f3zef Chmielewski – 1874 (Right)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE: Roman Catholic Parish of Butrymonys, Gubernia Wile\u0144ska, Russian Empire. Diocesan Copy of Parish Records, Merkin\u00c4\u2014 Diocese. F. 604, Ap. 28, B. 41, L. 52v-53, Nr. 37. J\u00f3zef Chmielewski baptism (1874); Lithuanian State Historical Archives, Vilnius, Lithuania.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF<\/a> copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of J\u00f3zef Chmielewski – 1874. Translated from the Russian, the record states:<\/p>\n Surname of the one baptized: Chmielewski When, where, who, by whom, baptized with water alone or with all the rites of the sacrament. Of what parents, when and where, i. e. in which parish was the baptized person born? Who were the godparents, by first name and any other name, and who was present at Holy Baptism? J\u00f3zef Chmielewski was the half brother of my grandmother, Helena Chmielewska. The two shared the same father but different mothers.<\/p>\n When my cousin and I found this record in the Lithuanian state archives, we were surprised to see the family listed as nobles. This almost certainly meant that they were lesser nobles who owned land at a time when most people were landless peasants.<\/p>\n Although J\u00f3zef was born in what was Russia and is now Lithuania, he was of Polish ancestry.<\/p>\n This document\u00c2\u00a0is the first record I\u00c2\u00a0obtained from\u00c2\u00a0Lithuania.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to documents in the United States, J\u00f3zef Chmielewski was born on 03 April 1874, but his birth and baptismal record on file with the Lithuanian State Historical Archives states that he was born on 19 March 1874. Birth and … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nNo.: 37
\nBirth Number (Males): 14
\nDate of Birth: 19
\nDate of Baptism: 22<\/p>\n
\nIn the year one thousand eight hundred seventy four on March the twenty-second in the Butrymance [one word?] Roman Catholic parish church a child was baptized by the name J\u00f3zef by the Reverend [one word?], with all the rites of the sacrament<\/p>\n
\nOf the nobles Wincenty and Scholastyka [one word?] Wojtczuka Chmielewski, lawful spouses, the son, born the nineteenth of March of this year in Stakli\u00c5\u00a1k\u00c4\u2014s parish [one word?]<\/p>\n
\nThe godparents were the nobles Justyn \u017barnowski and [M?] Bandarewiczewka, an unmarried woman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n