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In the village of Wólka, on the fifteenth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred forty-seven, at three o'clock in the afternoon, appeared Stanisław Kowalski, a farmer aged thirty-two years, residing in Wólka, and presented to us a male child born yesterday at ten o'clock in the morning to his wife Marianna née Wiśniewska, aged twenty-eight years...

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Jan Kowalski

Male • Born: 14 January 1847

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Father: Stanisław Kowalski, 32, farmer

Mother: Marianna née Wiśniewska, 28

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Wólka, Parish of Siedlce, Masovia

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Działo się we wsi Wólka dnia piętnastego Stycznia roku tysiąc ośmset czterdziestego siódmego o godzinie trzeciej po południu. Stawił się Stanisław Kowalski, gospodarz liczący lat trzydzieści dwa, zamieszkały w Wólce i okazał nam dziecię płci męskiej urodzone dnia wczorajszego...

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