It happened in the city of Mlawa on eight June, eighteen hundred and sixty five at eleven o’clock in the morning came Ickiem Jakub [Yitzhak Yakov son of Yehudah Ha-Levy] Tachna, a leather peddler aged thirty two, living in Mlawa in front of witnesses Levin Szmulowicz Landau, age seventy five, and Zalman Niborski, age fifty two, both teachers in Mlawa and living there, and show us a child, male, born in Mlawa on day two of January, eighteen hundred and sixty five, at four o’clock in the morning by his wife Hani Lai [Channah Leah daughter of Moshe Tzvi] of maiden name Cytryn (Citrin), age twenty eight. The child was named Gerzon [Gershon son of Yitzhak Yakov Ha-Levy]. The reason the act was done later was the father’s fault. The act was read to all the witnesses and signed.
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