{"id":802,"date":"2006-11-21T23:30:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T06:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/the-marriage-of-maciej-sowa-and-katarzyna-jachowa\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:46:25","slug":"the-marriage-of-maciej-sowa-and-katarzyna-jachowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/802","title":{"rendered":"The Marriage of Maciej Sowa and Katarzyna Jachowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I posted the Birth and Baptismal Record for Agnieszka Sowa, my great grandmother .\u00a0 Today, we&#8217;ll look at the Marriage Record\u00c2\u00a0for Agnieszka&#8217;s parents, my great great grandparents, Maciej Sowa and Katarzyna Jachowa .\u00a0 Their marriage record is the middle record on this image .\u00a0 If you look carefully, though, you&#8217;ll notice that someone with the surname Sowa is mentioned in all three marriage records on this image.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6853\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/CRM-Sowa-Maciej-and-Jachowa-Katarzyna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6853\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6853  \" title=\"The Marriage Record of Maciej Sowa and Katarzyna Jachowa\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/CRM-Sowa-Maciej-and-Jachowa-Katarzyna.jpg\" alt=\"The Marriage Record of Maciej Sowa and Katarzyna Jachowa\" width=\"363\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marriage Record of Maciej Sowa and Katarzyna Jachowa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record for <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/CRM-Sowa-Maciej-and-Jachowa-Katarzyna.pdf\">Maciej Sowa and Katarzyna Jachowa<\/a> .\u00a0 The record shows that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Page: 47<br \/>\nNumber: Not stated<br \/>\nDate: 28 May 1844<br \/>\nHouse Number: Bride 35 to Groom 105<br \/>\nGroom: Maciej Sowa, farmer, widower left behind after the death of Anna<br \/>\nReligion: Catholic<br \/>\nAge: 34<br \/>\nMarital Status: Widower<br \/>\nName of Bride: Katarzyna Jachowa, daughter of Wojciech Jach and\u00c2\u00a0Jadwiga Markowa, farmer<br \/>\nReligion: Catholic<br \/>\nAge: 24<br \/>\nMarital Status: Unmarried<br \/>\nWitnesses: Wawrzyniec Klepacki and Szymon Zaleski, farmers in Nienadowa<br \/>\nBanns Read: 11 May 1844<br \/>\nPriest: Father Karol Poprawski<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">This record demonstrates an interesting confounding factor for translating Polish records from the Latin into English .\u00a0 The given names in this record are written in Latin (Mathias, Catharina, Laurentius, Simon) .\u00a0 I&#8217;ve chosen to translate these names into Polish, rather than English, but I easily could have done either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Latin = Polish = English<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Mathias = Maciej = Matthew<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Catharina = Katarzyna = Katherine or Catherine<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Laurentius = Wawrzyniec = Lawrence<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Simon = Szymon = Simon<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Hedwig = Jadwiga = Hedwig<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">The surnames are actually written in Polish, since there really is no Latin or English equivalent for surnames .\u00a0 Another difficulty, however, is that the surnames of women are usually feminized in Polish .\u00a0 In this record, two feminized surnames are Jachowa and Markowa .\u00a0 The male equivalents of these surnames, and the form most often used in English-speaking countries, are Jach and Marek.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">When translating these records, I&#8217;ve decided to translate the given names and surnames from Latin into Polish, rather than into English.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Notice that this record provides the names of Katarzyna Jachowa&#8217;s parents, my great great great grandparents:\u00a0 Wojciech Jach and\u00c2\u00a0Jadwiga Marek .\u00a0 Unfortunately, the record does not provide the names of the parents of my great great grandfather, Maciej Sowa.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">For more details on Polish first names, refer to the <a title=\"Big Book of Names\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/613\">Big Book of Names<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. 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If you look carefully, though, you&#8217;ll notice that someone with the surname Sowa is mentioned in all three marriage records on this image. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,135],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jach","category-sowa","tag-dubiecko"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19896,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/19896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}