It happened
in the town of Mlawa on the eighteenth of April, eighteen hundred and
ninety at ten o’clock in the morning. Szymsie [Shimon Alter son of
Yitzhak Yakov Ha-Levy] Tachna, skin trader, twenty eight years old,
residing in the town of Mlawa, appeared in the presence of the
witnesses, Abram Moszek Etinger, age sixty eight, and Szymek Watmacher,
age thirty six, both of whom synagogue sextons residing in the town of
Mlawa, and showed us a child of female gender, testifying that it was
born in the town of Mlawa on the second of March of the current year at
three o’clock in the morning to his wife Zysa [Tzippora daughter of
Mikhael Ha-Cohen] née Kon, twenty six years old. The child was given the
name Szajndla [Shayndela
daughter of Shimon Alter Ha-Levy] (one of twins). This document was read
to those who appeared and signed by Us, the witnesses and the father of
the child.
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