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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Birth and Baptismal Record of Czes\u0142awa Niedzia\u0142kowska – 1889<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n SOURCE: Parafia pw. \u015bw. Jana Chrzciciela (Szwelice, Okr\u0119g makowski, Guberniya Lomzhinskaya, Vistulan Country, Russian Empire, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ksi\u0119ga ochrzczonych parafii Szwelice od 1885 do 1889. [Book of baptisms of the Szwelice parish from 1885 to 1889.],\u201d item 4, entry 107, Czes\u0142awa Niedzia\u0142kowska, 29 Dec 1889; filmed as Kopie ksi\u0119g metrykalnych, 1693-1904; FHL INTL microfilm 1,958,807.<\/p>\n Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Czes\u0142awa Niedzia\u0142kowska<\/a> – 1889. Translated from the Russian the record reads:<\/p>\n Sikuty No. 107<\/p>\n It happened in the village of Szwelice on the seventeenth \/: twenty-ninth :\/ of December, in the year one-thousand eight-hundred eighty-nine, at one o’clock in the afternoon. There appeared: Jan Niedzia\u0142kowski \/: Jan Niedzia\u0142kowski :\/ [one word?] and residing in Sikuty with his relatives, twenty-three years of age: in the presence of: Wojciech Niedzia\u0142kowski forty-five years of age, and Ludwik Niedzia\u0142kowski fifty years of age, noble landowners residing in Pomaski; and he presented to us a child of the female sex stating that she was born in Sikuty on the ninth \/: twenty-first :\/ of the current month and year, at nine o’clock in the morning, of his lawful wife Ludwika n\u00e9e Pomaska \/: Ludwika n\u00e9e Pomaska :\/ twenty-six years of age. To this child at Holy Baptism performed on this date [Nalki?] was given the name Czes\u0142awa \/: Czes\u0142awa \/ and the Godparents were Micha\u0142 Zachariasz Chrzanowski and Helena Pomaska. This document was read to the declarants and illiterate witnesses and was signed by Us alone. There were two sections of this record that stumped me. I could not understand the occupation of the father and I could not understand one word after “performed on this date”. I was also a little uncertain about the correct names of the Godparents.<\/p>\n The child named in this record was my great grand aunt, the sister of my great grandfather, Teofil Niedzia\u0142kowski.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 21 Dec 1889, Czes\u0142awa Niedzia\u0142kowska, daughter of Jan Niedzia\u0142kowski and Ludwika Pomaska, was born. She was baptized in the parish of in Szwelice, Okr\u0119g makowski, Guberniya Lomzhinskaya, Vistulan Country, Russian Empire on 29 Dec 1889. Continue reading
\nAdministrator of the Szwelice parish and keeper of vital records. [signed] Rev[erend] J. Zgliczy\u0144ski<\/p><\/blockquote>\n