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Joined: 18 Aug 2021 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 18 Aug 2021
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Posts: 2 		From: Maryland, USA
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Interests: Interested in family genealogy. My husband's Polish American grandfather was orphaned around 1915 in Reading, PA.

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DellaC   
18 Aug 2021
Language / Can you transcribe this name? [6]

I recently visited St. Catharine of Siena parish in Reading, PA. They house the Sacramental records of the historic Polish church there, St. Mary's. My husband's grandfather (Stanislaw) was orphaned around 1915; we were hoping to find information about him and his parents. Unexpectedly, we found the attached baptismal record for a child, sibling to Stanislaw, who likely died young. Can anyone transcribe the name? Additionally, can you say what gender it would be for?

DellaC   
18 Aug 2021
Language / Can you transcribe this name? [6]

I should add that many names seemed to have been Latinized in the baptismal records. Dominic, for instance, was Dominicus. Could the second name be some form of Xavier? Csaverius, perhaps? I saw where the X in Latin can sometimes be written as "Ks", so I'm thinking, why not "Cs", particularly since that interesting hook on the capital C of the father's last name seems to repeat on the child's middle name.