Origin Displayed: Polish
Spelling variations of this family name include: Czarnecki, Czarniak and others.First found in Cracow a province of Poland which lies centrally, bounded by Kielce, Lublin, Silesia and Lwow The captial city is Cracow, said to be the intellectual centre of Poland.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Michal Czarnecki, who was on record in New York in 1834; Albr. Czarnecki, who went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the port of Hamburg in 1851; Androw Czarnecki, who came to Pennsylvania in 1871.
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