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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Birth and Baptismal Record of J\u00f3zef Suwi\u0144ski – 1816<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE: Parafia pw. \u015bw. Gotarda (Pa\u0142uki, Przasnysz Obw\u00f3d, P\u0142ock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Akta urodze\u0144, ma\u0142\u017ce\u0144stw, zgon\u00f3w 1808-1825 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1808-1825],\u201d folio 7 recto, entry 73, J\u00f3zef Suwi\u0144ski, 20 Jan 1816; filmed as Kopie ksi\u0119g metrykalnych, 1808-1904; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,609.<\/p>\n Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of J\u00f3zef Suwi\u0144ski<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:<\/p>\n No 73\u00c2\u00a0 Osyski<\/span><\/p>\n In the year one-thousand eight-hundred sixteen on the twentieth day of the month of January at the hour of ten before noon, before Us, the Pastor of Pa\u0142uki, Registrar of the Civil State in the Pa\u0142uki Gmina, Przasnysz Powiat, in the P\u0142ock Department, there appeared the well-born Maciej Suwi\u0144ski, twenty-seven years of age, owner of a part [of the village] in Osyski, and he showed Us a child of the male sex which was born in his home on the eighteenth day of January in this same year, declaring that the child was begotten of him and his wife Anna n\u00e9e D\u0142ugo\u0142\u0119cka, twenty years of age, and that it is his wish to give him the name J\u00f3zef. After making the above statement and showing Us the child, in the presence of Franciszek Suwi\u0144ski, twenty-five years of age, together with Florian Sobolewski, thirty-six of age, residing in Osyski. We signed this birth record after it had been read aloud to the declarant, the people name in the document do not know how to write. J\u00f3zef Suwi\u0144ski was the brother of J\u00f3zef Andrzej Suwi\u0144ski, the future husband of Marianna Chodkowska, my 3rd cousin 3X removed.<\/p>\n This record states that the priest was the “Registrar of the Civil State in the Pa\u0142uki Gmina, Przasnysz Powiat, in the P\u0142ock Department”, the priest apparently not yet received word that the administrative structure had changed on 16 January 1816 .\u00a0 On that day, Powiats became Obw\u00f3ds and Departments became Voivodeships .\u00a0 In some parish registers, the priests continued to write “Powiat” and “Department” for many years after the change in administrative structure.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" J\u00f3zef Suwi\u0144ski, son of Maciej Suwi\u0144ski and Anna D\u0142ugo\u0142\u0119cka, was born on 18 January 1816 in Osyski, Przasnysz Obw\u00f3d, P\u0142ock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland. He was baptized in the parish church in Pa\u0142uki, Przasnysz Obw\u00f3d, P\u0142ock Voivodeship, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 20 January 1816. Continue reading \n
\n[signed] The Reverend J\u00f3zef Freszkowski, Pastor of Pa\u0142uki, Registrar of the Civil State<\/p><\/blockquote>\n