Andruszkiewicz, Judycki surnames

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And that they did. Regina's mom was an Andruskiewicz, z"l. (The Andrulewiczes used "Andruskiewicz" as well as other names and variants.) and her dad was a Judicki (Yuditski. His surname was a matronymic meaning "ben-Yudit"). The other one was Great-Granddad's uncle Ignacy, z"l.

Originally it must have been "Judycka" and "Judycki". Here you have an example of a person with such surname:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Judycka

As for "Adruszkiewicz"... That's interesting. Does your family has noble roots perhaps?
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andruszkiewicz_%28herb_szlachecki%29


Harry, what on Earth are you talking about? Ask an American to read/pronounce the name "Franciszka" lol No wonder she changed it to "Frances" (English equivalent of her name).

It was. I misspelled.


No. For whatever reason, the Andrulevièus name became played with and got turned into variants like:

- Andrulewicz
- Andrelovich
- Andrelewitz
- Androlowicz
- Andrulev ich
- Andralowitz
- Andrew
- Andrews

"Andruskiewicz" happened to be among those variants. I have no idea why. It was part of the passing game, I suppose.


The Andrulevièuses (as someone told me here) took their name in Stakliškės. Also, as I showed with the letter, Bołeslaw Andrulewicz made no bones about not being Polish, German, or Russian. If Frances did consider herself Jewish and was more open about it than I would have thought, I'm surprised (I guess that I shouldn't have been given how Orthodox the Andrulevièuses were prior to becoming Anusim-though some did not. After all, her aunt married a Jewish lantsman named Julian Czernecki and called her favorite sons-John Felix and Joseph Paschal-"Jankie" (for Felix) and "Susi" (both of which are Yiddish or Hebrew nicknames).).

Are you sure? Because it looks like her husband could have noble ancestry too:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judycki

I doubt it. He was born in Polkowo to a Jacob whose dad was a Josef. He was very much a ben-Yudyt (בן-יודית). His mother was a Maryanna Imsencka. His wife (my cousin of blessed memory) was born in Wielanowo, as was her mother (Antonina Seczeniewska). The Andrulevièuses could be found in Bose and Orlinek, but they had no aversion to travel. Great-Granddad, e.g., was born in Tsuman (then Cumań) when his mother was en route to or from visiting Vil'gel'm Andrulevich of Buzhanka (now in Cherkas'ka Oblast). His cousin Nik was in Vilna, and some Andrulevièuses escaped to Hungary as Anusim in the 1700s (which surprised me).

It might be true though! Szlachta was very diverse as it comes to their origins - people tend to foget that Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was full of different nationalities, all were equally likely to gain the title for their deeds or wartime merits, Polish was "only" the official language. BTW szlachta was quite often poor [szlachta zaściankowa, szlachta czynszowa], and they didn't resemble the western "nobles" so the concept of szlachta shouldn't be compared to it, just reminding the facts.

I found an official list of szlachta that lived in Vilinius region here: genealogia.lt/szlachta_wilenska.pdf [in Polish but it's a list only - there are both Andruszkiewicz and Judycki surnames]

Um... OK... But... Well, you see, if one of the spouses is of possible noble ancestry then it can be some surname coincidence, maybe, I guess, I don't know... But if the other spouse is of possible noble ancestry too... Then most probably it's no coincidence, because nobles did marry among each other in the past. I don't know what ben-Yudyt means but names Józef and Jakub were and are used by Poles too.

Also, the fact that Franciszka retained her maiden name could mean she was of noble ancestry. Of course, it's just my guess, but it all fits pretty well.


I've also found "Andruszkiewicz" among Polish nobles from Wołyń:

Pop-Pop would've noted that were that true, though. He tried to connect the Czerneckis (Chernetskis) to Stefan Czarniecki and mentioned no other families. Then he changed his story to "If we had any Jewish blood, I don't know about it." Also, Great-Great-Grandma retained "Andrulewicz" and "Andrulevich". Also, that side of the family doesn't trace the Judyckis beyond 1815 (Josef's birth year, and he was in Białystok), and they couldn't figure out who Franz's dad was until I was able to note the connection (as I recall. Franz was Franciszka's dad and Great-Great-Grandma's brother.).

Great-Great-Grandma's favorite sons were even "Jankie" and "Susi" (two sons who they could give Jewish nicknames), and she was furious when Great-Granddad married a believing Jew (my Great-Grandma Czarnecki, nee Trudnak; the daughter of a Nagy-Trudynak and a Korsch-Munka). She was also furious that he married for love (as shiddukh was the norm even among Anusim who cared about halakhah at all).

first time posting, but I noticed Nickidewbear mentioning Judycki from Bialystok. My grandfather was a Judycki from Bialystok. This first name was Konstanty, I think. He never talked english but I remember people calling him Connie or Gus. I think this middle name was Gustav. I wish I knew more about his family. He moved to the USA after he was married with one child, first living in Nebraska before finally settling in Chicago til he died.

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Can Someone Help Me Find Out What Happened To A Relative?

Can anyone find out for me what happened to a Rochla Andrelewitz, whom was my great-great-grandmother Alexandria's cousin and seems to have disappeared in or after 1907? She immigrated to Brooklyn from Wilno in 1907. Her name was Rochla bas Gilya or Rochla bat Gilya, possibly Rachel bat Hillel once she cam e here.

Didn't she change her name?
Rochla would be Rachel, wouldn't it?
Andrelewitz looks like a misspelling, too?

Andrelewitz is one of the variants of "Andrulevicus" or "Andrulevicius" that we used. At some point (I don't know when), we either Ashkenazized our name or took an Ashkenazi name. On her record[/url], the stem of the "d" is faded:

libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger-details/czoxMjoiMTAzMjk1MTMwMTQzIjs=/czo5OiJwYXNzZW5nZXIiOw==

I think the main problem is that we don't know what name she might have used.
I'm sorry I can't help.

She may have used "Regina" or "Rose" if not "Rachel".

Was there a Jewish Council or a synagogue in Brooklyn back then?
Could they have any information about her?

There are quite a few synagogues in Brooklyn. Also, I could use her aunt's name (Mrs. Sarah?. Here, they mistyped her name is "Anarelewitz").

I can't read her aunt's surname, though.

I'm not registered on ancestry.com so I can't see it.
I don't really know much about immigration documents but since Rochla is yiddish, she may have been religious and might have attended the synagogue. Perhaps they have some further information about her.

She was definitely frum. PS The record is attached.

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  Very cropped, reflects only her record
  

@kaprys, it turns out that her aunt's surname was "HaLevi". I can't figure out the aunt's middle name, though, and I still can't find information on her.

I'm sorry but all I can help you with is that in Polish the aunt's name would probably have been Sara ha-Lewi.