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The Andrulewicz Family is an Ashkenazi Jewish family from Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, the United States, and other countries that have been settled by Ashkenazim in the Jewish Diaspora(including the United Kingdom and Argentina).

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• 1 Surname History
• 2 Religious History
• 3 Famous and Notable Members of the Family
• 4 References

Surname History[edit source]

When the "Andrulewicz" surname was taken by the family is unknown; but the name first appeared in Stakliškės, Lithuania as "Andrulevičus"^[1]. Variants of the name include and are not limited to "Andrulevičius", "Andrulevich" (as used by voter Vil'gel'm Andrulevich in Buzhanka, Ukraine during the 1906 Duma Elections) ^[2], "Andrulewicz" (as first recorded in regard to Kazimierz Andrulewicz of Bose, Poland in 1764 and 1765)^[3], "Androlewicz", "Andrelovich" (as used by Nik Andrelovich^[4]), "Andrulewitz", "Andrulavage", and even "Andruskiewicz"^[5].

Religious History[edit source]

In terms of religious practice and observance, the family was and is still mixed. For example, Alexandria Alice Andrulewicz Czarnecki (born June 26, 1882^[6][7]) and her husband, Julian, wereAnusim. Other Andrulewiczes were Anusim as well, and converted at various times throughout the 1700s-1900s--including during the pogroms, which is when Julian and Alexandria (to the chagrin of their families) converted (They even, due to Anti Semitism in those times, remained Roman Catholic in the United States, which is to where they immigrated when their families sat shiva for them and cut them off.). Most of the conversions were into Roman Catholicism. One relative, Vincas Andrulavicius of Trakai ("Trakei"), is listed as "Protestant" on a Labrador ship manifest for August 12, 1929, when Labrador embarked from Hamburg, Germany to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also Protestant are some of the branches of the family in the United States, though quite a few have remained Roman Catholic.

As for the families of Vil'gel'm Andrulevich and Nik Andrelovich, as well as one (or possibly two) of the "Andrulewitz" families^[8], they remained openly and religiously Jewish.

Famous and Notable Members of the Family[edit source]

• Teddy Andrulewicz
• Michael Andrews (Michael Androlewicz)
• John "Jack" G. Czarnecki, one of the three IRS Agents who served tax papers to then-President Richard Nixon's attorneys during Watergate. Czarnecki retired from the IRS in 1992, and is the oldest-surviving grandchild of Alexandria Andrulewicz Czarnecki (through her son Anthony "Tony" Czarnecki, Sr.--who was baptized into Roman Catholicism by his parents during the pogroms).

References[edit source]

1. ^ PolishForums.com
2. ^ Ancestry.com and JewishGen.org
3. ^ http://genealodzy.pl/PNphpBB2-printview-t-17821-start-60.phtml
4. ^ [1]Same as Source #2
5. ^ [2] According to a granddaughter of Joseph P. Czarnecki, Sr. (a son of Alexandria Alice Andrulewicz Czarnecki, whose name was Aleksjondria Alicja Andrulewiczówna Czernecka before she arrived in Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, Alexandria Alice Andrulewicz Czarnecki gave the name "Andruskiewicz" as her maiden name. Alexandria had a brother named Franz who also used this variant, as did Franz's daughter Franciszka "Frances" Andruskiewiczówna Judycki.
6. ^ [3]Naturalization Record for Julian Czarniecki (né Czernecki or Chernetski)
7. ^ A maternal uncle or a maternal cousin, Shmuil Morgovich, is listed on JewishGen.org as having died on April 4, 1882 in Stakliškės of tuberculosis. This validates Julian's and Alexandria's claim that she was born on June 26, 1882, and explains why Alexandria's parents--an Andrulevičus (Andrulewicz) and a Morgevičutė (Margiewicz)--left Stakliškės for Bose, which was then in Sejny Uyezd inSuwałki Gubernia of the Russian Empire.
8. ^ See "Index of 1890 and 1891 NY Immigrants from Austria, Poland, and Galicia" on JewishGen.org.