3600 surnames part II - or how history enters into surnames

During the last WW2 among the troops that were with the 8th Army in Italy there was the Polish Expeditionary Corp.
These brave soldiers had the venture to fight against the germans when the battle front was here in beautiful Macerata\Ancona area.
It happened that these soldiers weren't only engaged with fightings, but had the opportunity to meet marchigiane women too.
As usual, Love is the stongest force, stronger than war, death and all the terrible things of that (luckily) far period.
So, many of them married those women and now around the hilltops of Macerata, Potenza Picena, Recanati, Civitanova Marche, Loreto, you can find mr. and mrs. [B]Knietnewsky, Kowalsky, Najduk, Mlinarczik, Kwansnik......[/B]
But things can be even more complicated.
After the war, many of these italo-pole couples emigrated to Argentina, because the poles didn't want to come back to the stalinian Poland and the UK, that still had the problem to dismobilize the army, made an agreement with Argentina to settle there these ex soldiers.
Because of the argentinian economic problems, many of them have now come back in Italy, so it's not unusual to find a person with a polish surname and a spanish accent.
Some of the polish soliders (with their marche wives) remained in the UK too, but some of them, manwhile, decided to come back in Italy so it can happen to find a person with a polish surname and a british accent.
Last week I drafted a contract where mrs Hypting (pole father, born in Leeds) has sold a house to mr Kwasnik (pole father, born in Buenos Aires) :eek: