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Submitted by Stuart M Lichtman

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Polish
Approval Date: 6/29/2025 1:54 PM
Family Surname: Orzech and Miller
Country: Poland
Town: Działoszyce
Date of Image: 1851
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Please translate. I believe this to be a marriage document of Ruchla Orzech and Mendel Miller; January 1, 1851.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSDT-4SKG-Z?cat=355469&i=574&lang=en

Film Film # 007988739
Microfilm 814603
Image 575

Thank you.

Stuart Lichtman

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On  Response 
6/29/2025 7:21 PM Just as an fyi, the image is virtually illegible, and when I tried to access the original on FamilySearch, it gave me a message saying I had to go to one of the centres to access it. Anyway, I found it in the Polish State Archives, so here you go.

Main details (dates, names, ages, place names, occupations where given). For information about the more 'generic' wording contained in a marriage record, you could look at this site: https://forum.jri-poland.org/t/how-can-i-read-polish-language-birth-marriage-and-death-records/13581

Place and date of marriage registration: Działoszyce, 2 January 1851.

Marriage officiated by Fajwel WAGAZ, deputy rabbi of Działoszyce.

Groom: Mendel MÜLLER, single, aged 21, born in Szewce, living in the village of Gunów, supported by father, Herszek MÜLLER (living), mother Fajgla deceased (no maiden name or patronymic).

Bride:  Ruchla ORZECHOWNA, single, aged 19, born in Działoszyce and living there, służba (in service), daughter of deceased spouses Abel and Dwojra (née WOLFOWICZ) ORZECH.

Witnesses: Dawid ZELMANOWICZ, aged 55 and Mosiek ZUCHTER aged 66, both living in Działoszyce.

Date of marriage: 1 January 1851.

Banns: 16, 23 and 30 November 1850 in Działoszyce.

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