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<\/a>Marriage Record for Stanis\u0142aw Morawski and Helena Chodkowska – 1903<\/p><\/div>\n
SOURCE:\u00a0SOURCE: Roman Catholic Parish of Saint John the Baptist (W\u0119gra, Przasnysz Powiat, P\u0142ock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Duplicate Civil Registrations of the Parish of W\u0119gra for the Year 1903,\u201d folio 51 recto, entry 19, marriage record of Stanis\u0142aw Morawski and Helena Chodkowska, recorded 13 September 1903; State Archives in M\u0142awa, digital images, Genbaza (http:\/\/metryki.genbaza.pl<\/a> : accessed 18 June 2016).<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record for Stanis\u0142aw Morawski and Helena Chodkowska – 1903<\/a>. The record, translated from the Russian,\u00a0states:<\/p>\n Suwin and Brz\u0119czki\u00c2\u00a019. It took me a while to figure out where the bride and her parents were living at the time of this marriage. The record states that they were living in\u00c2\u00a0Brz\u0119czki in the parish of W\u0119gra, but I couldn’t find a place with that name on any map or in any gazetteer. Then, I found a place called Smole\u0144-Brz\u0119czki on\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/mapa.szukacz.pl\/<\/a> and it was clear that this was the correct village. This village also appears in the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego, but, curiously enough, it does not appear on Google maps.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stanis\u0142aw Morawski, son of Jan Morawski\u00c2\u00a0and Domicela\u00c2\u00a0Golanowska, was married to Helena Chodkowska, daughter of Ezechiel Chodkowski and Pelagia Rozalia Ropelewska, on 13 September 1903\u00c2\u00a0in W\u0119gra, Przasnysz Powiat, P\u0142ock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. Helena Chodkowska was my 6th cousin, 2x … Continue reading
\nThis happened in the village of W\u0119gra on the thirty-first day of August (thirteenth day of Steptember) in the year one-thousand nine-hundred\u00c2\u00a0three at six o’clock in the afternoon. We delare that in the presence of the witnesses, farmers Jan Balcerczyk, residing the village of Brz\u0119czki, forty-one years old, and Jan Kra\u015bnicki, residing in the village of Kijewice, forty years old, on this day a religious marital union was contracted between Stanis\u0142aw Morawski, a bachelor, born in the village of Barto\u0142dy, Ciechan\u00f3w Uyezd, son of Jan Morawski, a laborer, and his wife Domicela n\u00e9e Golanowska, residing with his parents in Suwin, twenty-four years old, and Helena Chodkowska, a maiden, born in the village of Kobylaki Czarzaste, Przasnysz parish, daughter of Ezechiel Chodkowski, a landowner, and his wife Pelagia n\u00e9e Ropelewska, residing with her parents in the village of Brz\u0119czki in the local parish, eighteen years old. This marriage was preceded by three readings of the banns in the local parish church on the twenty-third and thirtieth of August, and on the sixth of September of the current year. Permission was given verbally by the bride’s parents who were present in person for the drawing up of the marriage record. The newlyweds stated that they had made no prenuptial agreement between them. The religious marriage ceremony was performed by us, who has signed below, Administrator of the W\u0119gra parish, the Reverend Ludwik Sali\u0144ski. This document was read aloud to those present who are illiterate, and was signed only by us. Administrator of the W\u0119gra parish, keeper of the documents of the civil state. [signed] The Reverend Ludwik Sali\u0144ski<\/p><\/blockquote>\n