{"id":23488,"date":"2024-10-20T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23488"},"modified":"2024-10-20T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T03:23:33","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-genowefa-sielawa-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23488","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Genowefa Sielawa – 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Genowefa Sielawa was born on 11 Mar 1916 in Motowid\u0142\u00f3wka, Wasylk\u00f3w Uezd, Kiev Gub\u00e9rniya, Russian Empire, and baptized on 12 Mar 1916 in the Motowid\u0142\u00f3wka Church. In 1920, information about her birth and baptism was entered into the records of the parish church in Borkowo, Kolno Powiat, Bia\u0142ystok Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birth and Baptismal Record for Genowefa Sielawa – 1916\/1920<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Polish, the record states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Na zasadzie metryki wydanej przez Urz\u0105d Parafialny Motowid\u0142owskiego Rz. Kat. Ko\u015bcio\u0142a za No. 71 z dnia 8 marca 1916 roku metrycznej ksi\u0105\u017cki no. 127. Niniejszym za\u015bwiadczam, \u017ce c\u00f3rka Feliksa i Aleksandry z Wyrwas\u00f3w ma\u0142\u017c. Sialow\u00f3w, urodzona zosta\u0142a w Wasylkowie powiatu i gub. Kijowskiej dniu dwudziestym siodmym m-ca lutego tysi\u0105c dziewi\u0119cset szesnastego roku starego stylu. Dzi\u0119ciu temu na chrzcie \u015awi\u0119tym w dniu dwudziestym \u00f3smym m-ca lutego tego\u015b roku w Motowid\u0142owskim Rz Kat. parafialnym ko\u015bciele przez ksi\u0119dza prob. Boles\u0142awa Gietkiewicza odbytem nadane zosta\u0142o imi\u0119 Genowefa, a rodzicami jego chrzestnym byli Aleksander Kajko i Aleksandra Kajko, co stwierdzam w\u0142asnor\u0119cznym podpisem i piecz\u0119ci\u0105 ko\u015bcieln\u0105.
[podpisano] Ks. [Z. Butkiewicz ?]
Utrzymuj\u0105cy Akta Stanu Cywilnego<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated into English, the document reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the basis of the record sent by the Parish Office of the Motowid\u0142\u00f3wka Roman Catholic Church for No. 71 on 8 March 1916, metric book no. 127, I hereby certify that the daughter of the married couple Feliks and Aleksandra n\u00e9e Wyrwas Sielawa, was born in Wasylk\u00f3w uezd and Kiev gub\u00e9rniya, on the twenty-seventh day of February, one-thousand nine-hundred sixteen in the old style. This child was baptized on the twenty-eighth day of February of the same year in the Motowid\u0142\u00f3ka Roman Catholic parish church by parish priest Boles\u0142aw Gietkiewicz and was given the name Genowefa, and her godparents were Aleksander Kajko and Aleksandra Kajko. I hereby sign this document with my own hand and the church seal.
[signed] Rev. [Z. Butkiewicz ?]
Maintainer of Civil Status Records<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before 1915, residents of Borkowo worshipped at the church in Ma\u0142y P\u0142ock. However, during World War I, the church in Ma\u0142y Plock was nearly totally destroyed, and with it many of the metrical records for the parish. Worship services in Ma\u0142y P\u0142ock were conducted in the rectory until the church could be rebuilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1918, the parish of the Holy Trinity was established in Borkowo, separate from the parish in Ma\u0142y Plock. The church of the Holy Trinity in Borkowo was built in the years 1923-1932. Most of the baptisms recorded in the Borkowo metrical books in 1920 were baptisms that were performed in Borkowo. Records No. 21-26, however, are all records performed in other locations during World War I and then recorded in the Borkowo books after the end of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akt 22 recorded the birth of Antoni Kajko in Wasylk\u00f3w and baptism in the Motowid\u0142\u00f3wka Roman Catholic Church, and whose parents were Stanis\u0142aw and Bronis\u0142awa Kajko. Akt 23 (the record described here) recorded the birth of Genowefa Sielawa, whose godparents were Aleksander Kajko and Aleksandra Kajko. It appears that more than one family from Borkowo lived in in Wasylk\u00f3w (Ukrainian = \u0412\u0430\u0441\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043a\u0456\u0432), near Kiev (English = Kiev or Kyiv; Polish = Kij\u00f3w; Ukrainian = \u041a\u0438\u0457\u0432), during World War I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Genowefa Sielawa was born on 11 Mar 1916 in Motowid\u0142\u00f3wka, Wasylk\u00f3w Uezd, Kiev Gub\u00e9rniya, Russian Empire, and baptized on 12 Mar 1916 in the Motowid\u0142\u00f3wka Church. In 1920, information about her birth and baptism was entered into the records of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-66Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23492,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488\/revisions\/23492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}