The following documents document the formal name change from Pajewski to Page for the John and Anna Pajewski family. The change was granted on 10 December 1926.
There are four documents:
- The 21 October 1926 Petition
- The 10 December 1926 Decree
- The 5th November 1926 Publisher's Certificate
- The Newspaper Notice entered for three consecutive weeks from 21 October 1926
Filed: Oct. 21, 1926
No: 447334
STATE OF ILLINOIS
COUNTY OF COOK
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY
November Term, 1926
TO THE HONORABLE JUDGES OF SAID COURT:
Your petitioner, JOHN PAJEWSKI, respectfully shows that he is a resident of the State of Illinois, and has resided in Cook County in said state for more than six months prior to filing this petition; that he desires to change his name according to the provisions of the Statute in such case made and provided, and he now, in that behalf, respectfully shows:
That he now bears the name of JOHN PAJEWSKI and is known and called by that name; that he desires to assume the name of JOHN PAGE, by which he may be hereafter known and called.
That the place of his nativity is West Prussia, Germany and his age is 63 years; that he has resided in the State of Illinois for thirty five years last past; that he has given notice of this, his intended application, by publication in the Corporation Reporter, a newspaper published in Cook County, of general circulation, for three successive weeks, a copy of which published notice, with the certificate of the publisher thereof is hereto annexed and made a part of this petition.
That he also wishes to include his wife, ANNA PAJEWSKI, who was born December 3rd, 1871 at West Prussia, Germany, and to whom he was married in 1893 at Chicago, Illinois; and that he wishes to include his son, GEORGE PAJEWSKI, age thirty three years; his son WILLIAM PAJEWSKI, aged twenty four years; and his son EDWARD PAJEWSKI, aged twenty three years, all bachelors; and his daughter, ANNA PAJEWSKI, aged twenty one years, spinster; all of which children live with JOHN PAJEWSKI and ANNA PAJEWSKI, their parents.
WHEREFORE, your petitioner prays, the premises being considered, that his name, the name of his wife and the name of his children be changed from its present form to PAGE, as provided by the Statute, and they hereafter be known and called by the last aforesaid name, and that he have such other or further relief in the premises, as to this Honorable Court shall seem meet, according to law.
And your petitioner will ever pray, etc.
John Pajewski
Petitioner
Joseph B. Hermes
Attorney for Petitioner
STATE OF ILLINOIS
COUNTY OF COOK
JOHN M. HENIFF, being duly sworn on oath, says that he is acquainted with JOHN PAJEWSKI, the petitioner in said cause, who has signed the said petition, his wife, ANNA PAJEWSKI, his son GEORGE PAJEWSKI, his son, WILLIAM PAJEWSKI, his son EDWARD PAJEWSKI and his daughter, ANNA PAJEWSKI; that he has read the foregoing petition and knows the contents thereof, and that the same, and the matters and things stated are true.
John M. Heniff
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of October, A. D. 1926
Comments
The document states that John and Anna Pajewski were born in West Prussia, Germany.
- The document states that Anna Pajewski was born 3 December 1871.
- The document states that John was 63 years old, which suggests a year of birth of 1863. This is 2 years earlier than other data suggest.
- The document states that John Pajewski resided in Illinois for 35 years, which suggests he came to Illinois in 1891. This is three years later than other data indicates.
STATE OF ILLINOIS
COUNTY OF COOK
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY
December Term, A. D. 1926
IN THE MATTER OF THE
PETITION OF JOHN PAJEWSKI
For
CHANGE OF NAME
John Page
DECREE
This cause having come on to be heard upon the petition filed herein and upon the motion of petitioner's solicitor, and the court having read the said petition, together with the affidavit appended hereto, and the certificate of publication filed herein, and it appearing that previous notice of the intended applications for a change of name was given by publishing a notice thereof in the National Corporation Reporter, a newspaper of general circulation published in the county wherein the said petitioner resides, said publication having been made for three consecutive weeks, the first insertion of which was at least six weeks prior to the first day of the December term of this court, the said notice being signed by the said petitioner and setting forth the term of this court at which the said petitioner was to be filed, together with the name sought to be assumed, and the court, being fully advised in the premises, doth find:
That all the material facts alleged in said petition are true; that the said petitioner is a resident of the State of Illinois and has resided therein continuously for a period of at least six months next preceding the December term of this court; that the condition mentioned and specified in an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled, "an Act to Revise the Law in Relation to Names" approved February 25, 1874, have been complied with; that this court has jurisdiction of the person and of the subject matter hereof; and that no reason appears why the prayer in said petition contained should not be granted.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the said petitioner's name be, and the same is, hereby changed from JOHN PAJEWSKI to JOHN PAGE and that of his wife from ANNA PAJEWSKI to ANNA PAGE; it is further ordered that the petitioner include in this petition his bachelor sons and spinster daughter who are all living with him; that their names be respectively changed from GEORGE PAJEWSKI to GEORGE PAGE, WILLIAM PAJEWSKI to WILLIAM PAGE, EDWARD PAJEWSKI to EDWARD PAGE, and ANNA PAJEWSKI to ANNA PAGE, by which last mentioned names they shall be hereafter known and called.
JUDGE
ENTERED: DECEMBER 10, 1926
This is to certify That the notice, a true copy of which is hereto annexed, was published in the National Corporation Reporter, a secular newspaper in general circulation, published weekly in the City of Chicago, Cook County, and State of Illinois, by THE UNITED STATES CORPORATION BUREAU, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, three times, once each week, for three successively; that the date of the first publication was the 21st day of October A. D. 1926, and the date of the last publication was the 4th day of November A. D. 1926, said paper being authorized by law as the proper medium for the publication of legal notices in said county, by virtue of "An Act to revised the law in relation to notices," approved Feb. 13, A. D. 1874, in force July 1, A. D. 1874, and declared a legal publication by the Supreme Court of Illinois in Maass v. Hess, Vol. 140, Ill. Repts., p.576: (also 3 Nat. Corp. rep., p. 383), and said The National Corporation Reporter has been regularly published for more than six (6) months prior to the fist (1st) publication of the annexed notice.
In Testimony Whereof, THE UNITED STATES CORPORATION BUREAU, the Publisher of the said The National Corporation Reporter has caused this certificate of publication to be signed by one of its officers, an authorized agent, and the corporate seal thereof to be affixed this 5th day of November A. D. 1926.
The United States Corporation Bureau
President
Fee $9.90
Received Payment
Joseph B. Hermes, Att'y, 616, 160
North La Salle Street
State of Illinois, County of Cook
Public notice is hereby given that we have filed our petition, Gen. No. 447334, and at the December term of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, to be held at the Court House in the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illinois, commencing on the first Monday of December, A. D. 1926, we will make application to said Court to have our names changed from John Pajewski, Anna Pajewski, and George Pajewski, William Pajewski, Edward Pajewski, and Anna Pajewski, to John Page, Anna Page, and George Page, William Page, Edward Page, and Anna Page, respectively, pursuant to the Statute in such case made and provided.
Dated Chicago, Illinois, October 21st, A. D. 1926.
JOHN PAJEWSKI,
ANNA PAJEWSKI, and
GEORGE PAJEWSKI,
WILLIAM PAJEWSKI, and
ANNA PAJEWSKI,
By John Pajewski, their father, Petitioners.
Joseph B. Hermes, Att'y
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