After posting about my research on the family of Adam Obiedzi\u0144ski and Faustyna Apolonia Obiedzi\u0144ska, my cousin Christa wrote to me with a wealth of information she has from her own research on the Obiedzi\u0144ski family. She told me about another daughter of Adam and Faustyna Apolonia Obiedzi\u0144ski, born on 28 Dec 1802 and named Elzbieta, and she told me that the death record of an unnamed child of Adam and Faustyna Apolonia was that of their son Maciej.<\/p>\n
Christa also told me that, in addition to being husband and wife,\u00a0Adam Obiedzi\u0144ski and Faustyna Apolonia Obiedzi\u0144ska were third cousins, once removed. Christa has the ancesty of the Obiedzi\u0144ski family going way further back in time than I do .\u00a0Using the information provided by Christa, I found the birth and baptismal records for Adam Obiedzi\u0144ski and his\u00c2\u00a0siblings:<\/p>\n
I discovered that I was also mistaken about the given name of Adam’s father. From the marriage record of Adam and Faustyna Apolonia, I read Adam’s father’s name as Mateusz. However, on the birth and baptismal records of Adam and his siblings their father’s name appears to be Maciej.<\/p>\n
Further\u00c2\u00a0confusion comes from the fact that these records are written in Latin and the given names are all translated into that language. The Latin form of Mateusz is Matthaeus and the Latin form of Maciej is Mathias. If the names had been written in Polish, there would have been no confusion.<\/p>\n
The fact that two of the children of Maciej Obiedzi\u0144ski and Marianna Milewska were named Franciszek suggests that the first child with that name may have died before the second was born.<\/p>\n
Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After posting about my research on the family of Adam Obiedzi\u0144ski and Faustyna Apolonia Obiedzi\u0144ska, my cousin Christa wrote to me with a wealth of information she has from her own research on the Obiedzi\u0144ski family. She told me about another daughter of Adam and Faustyna Apolonia Obiedzi\u0144ski, born on 28 Dec 1802 and named Elzbieta. Continue reading