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About Plesek/Pleshek Clan Name Origin
The
true name of our clan is 
(the letter -
- read as -SH-).
The same applies to the true name of our ancestral village, 
. Note,
that woman´s name in Czech discern from that of the male´s by the ending 
.
Thus Mrs. 
does not exist here, she is 
.
History and etymology: Beginning 17th century all Austrian
citizens ( Bohemia and Moravia were parts of the Austrian Empire at that time)
were forced to accept permanent family names, either chosen by themselves or
suggested by the community representatives, or by the relevant priest, etc. They
were usually derived of some characteristic feature of the head of the family,
or of his profession, deficiency or other typical feature. In our case it was
the inclination of the males to become bald-headed pretty early. The noun ""
in Czech means "bald head". This feature still persists among the descendants
living in 
, and possibly elsewhere. They are
exceptions of course, due to genetic compensation on the maternal lineage - not
in my case. Nearly all of my relatives were more or less true 
in the
original sense.
Of course, all ancestors have had several congeners, so the
true tree is more branched and even twiggy. Thus my great grandfather was one of
five, my grandfather was one of five as well, my father one of six. It was
apparently quite similar within US branches.
The name is
frequent and endemic in , with some spreading to the neighboring
localities, as are e.g. Hodslavice,
, 
,
etc., but it does not belong to the current names in the whole Republic. For
instance all living in Praha descend of the
ancestors born in .
The list of living
in Praha (The Capital of the Czech Republic) : Brian,
Jiri, Jaromir, 
Alzbeta, Alzbeta (2nd),
Anna, Eva,
Helena, Magda,
Marie, Michaela. Note that is the
name of 44 from 655 residents in .
Nearly assuredly it is presumed
that all s, Pleseks and Plesheks all over the
world have their roots in .
About the Village of our Origin
Czech
Republic : almost 80 000 km2, 10.3 million inhabitants, the true center of
Europe.
Countries: "Bohemia, Moravia,Silesia".
Suburb of the district town
(cca 7 km distant) in the north-eastern quater of "Moravia", 18.01°
East,49,42° North.
Brief commune history
According
to a legend, the foundation of Hostasovice village is dated around 1249. A
bird-catcher called Hostasa was a warden of Hradisko fortress that was a
property of the Stary Jicin castle and at that time he settled near to the
Hrazka creek. A plantation and afterwards a wood-village has been founded that
belonged to Stary Jicin manor. In 1749 the trustee of Stary Jicin castle
promoted the previous wood-village to the self-dependent commune. Hostasovice
obtained the right to use a seal with the sign of crossed dew-rake and flail.
The community was living itself till 1978 when it became a part of Novy Jicin
town. In 1991 Hostasovice became again to be a self-dependent commune and this
conversion enabled its perspicuous development.
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Additional information about Hostasovice in English Beskydy-Valachia
, in Czech Beskydy-Valassko
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or Wikipedia
Where 
in Czech Republic live ?
There are more than
96,000 variations of Czech surnames. Some surnames are more common but the
majority of them is rare and these names are connected with few families only.
First twenty frequent surnames cover about 7 per cent of total population and
first 100 surnames belong to 17 per cent of all Czech population.
In
accordance to the official records there are altogether 159 male and 239 female
living within the whole Czech Republic nowadays and this name is the
5,285st in the order of occurence.
Do you want to know how name is
spread within Czech
Republic ?
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Pilgrims for Hope
Sailing ships
plied their trade between Europe and America carrying wood, tobacco and cotton
from American and Canadian ports. After the ships were unloaded, emigrants began
to be a return cargo in the 1830s. 200,000 emigrants left Liverpool for America
in 1850. After the 1850s the ports of Bremen and Hamburg offered better travel
conditions and were more accessible for European emigrants. Sailing ships gave
way to steam ships and the journey was shortened to 14 days in the 1870s. By
1900 this was further reduced to 8 days.
Describing the perilous
travels of the first emigrants equipped with only the most necessary clothes
and personal items stored in a small wooden case.
Some of Pleshek´s descend from 
PLESAK
STORY - How I hunted Pleshek´s but caught Plesak´s
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