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pochowany

Pochowany is Polish for "buried" (pochowana for a woman); in a parish book it gives the burial, not the death.

Pochowany is the past participle of pochować, which in this sense means to lay someone in a grave. You meet it in parish burial books and in notes beside a death entry.

Other burial words in the same records are pochowanie and pogrzeb, both meaning burial, and pogrzebany, buried. The cemetery is cmentarz. A burial date and a death date are two different facts, so note which one the entry gives before you copy it into your tree.

As seen in a recordBurial note in a Polish parish death register, 19th century
Pochowany na cmentarzu parafialnym dnia czternastego listopada
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