So Great-Grandma Czarnecki Was Jewish After All..

As I wrote on Facebook:

Nicole Czarnecki

‎: Monka/Monk: "English: nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance, or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from Middle English munk, monk ‘monk’ (Old English munuc, munec, from Late Latin monachus, Greek monakhos ‘solitary’, a derivative of monos ‘alone’).
North German (Mönk) and Dutch: equivalent of 1, from Middle Low German monik, Middle Dutch moni(n)c, mun(i)c.
Irish: translation of Gaelic Ó Muineaog (see Minogue) or Ó Manacháin (see Monahan).
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a miller or flour merchant, from Polish maka ‘flour’, ‘meal’. "

Mari-Ann, Jeff , Bob , etc.; you're gonna wanna read this.

[By the way, Jeff has a blog here-- which I've subscribed to but only gotten around to seeing glimpses of it: "A Moment Changes Everything".]

Nicole Czarnecki

‎: Well, there's a nice touch of irony. So, Jewish Monka-Trudniaks married other Jews (e.g., Chernetskis) after all. Of course, typing "Monka" on Yad Vashem and checking "Monka" against "Monk" with Google Translate and Ancestry.com isn't the... most conventional way to find out. And I'd still love to know where "Nezne Lapse (Lajse?)" is.

Nicole Czarnecki

‎: Alexandria Czarnecki hated mixed-blooded Jews and Jewish Catholics who weren't just Anusim... or was she duck and covering from our heritage and dreading that Great-Granddad's marriage to a "mamzerah" would blow it?

So only the Trudniaks (Trudnaks) were Slavic... the Monkas were Jewish. And I wonder how Jack Czarnecki could murder his Jewish mother, a Jewish-Catholic Christian mother who did her best to raise her Jewish Catholic sons with a fully-Jewish Anusi husband.