Need help translating Hungarian birth record
Entry 32 at Bakonynana, Veszprem, birth record for 22 July 1892, Maria Janus [Janas]. See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-8F2T-S?i=462&cc=1743180&cat=292443
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32. Born 19, baptized 20 July 1892
Child: Mária, girl, legitimate by civil laws
Parents: József Janus, Cziczelle Huber, RC day-laborer
Residence: BNána number 49
Godparents: Lőrincz Folly, Cziczelle Simon
Officiant: Gyula Rainiss pastor
Observations: the husband has been in America for three years. Died 2 Aug 1892.
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The baby died of "weakness": https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-8F2K-P?i=526&cc=1743180&cat=292443 (last entry on page).
There was a case in my family in the late 1870s where the mother's husband had been living somewhere else for years, and at first the baptismal register for her son had been filled out as illegitimate, but then later they changed it to legitimate and required the child to use his non-father's surname. Apparently, the law said that if the mother was married, then her husband was the legal father of her children. I think the husband could have denied paternity, probably with a deadline, but nothing the mother said or did could change things. (In this particular case, the first thing the kid did when he attained his majority was to legally change his surname to his mother's.)
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Ms. Szent-Györgyi: Thank you so much for your help. I had no success deciphering the hand writing to try to compare it to the Hungarian word list. And thank you as well for taking the extra time searching the unindexed records to find Maria's death record. That would have taken me a LONG time. Maria's mother was on her own for three years and I don't know if she had any communication from her husband in America. She made the ocean voyage on her own with an 8, 6, and 3 year old, joined her husband in PA and survived a few years working in the steel mills, and they had three more children. They ended their lives happily in Garfield, NJ. I appreciate you sharing your family story as well. It reminds me to be grateful that women have more power today. Again my thanks for your wonderful assistance. Eileen
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