History and family tree outlines of Jakub Plesak and his family

from Mezna, Bozejov parish, Pelhrimov district, Bohemia, arrived in Waukechon, Shawano Cty, Wisconsin 1869

The following Plesak´s and Tomasu´s sailed to America and settled in Shawano, Wisconsin. In the moment of entering US territory a person "Tomasu" was renamed to "Tomashek" and another person "Plesak" was renamed to "Pleshek". Without a doubt it was both a lingual barrier and a low literacy of both immigrants and immigration officers which caused such name distortions.

In Shawano there are still Pleshek´s who still farm the land today and live in the original Pleshek Homestead. In my research I ran across many Plesheks' in the state of Wisconsin and I think  all of them can be connected to this Plesak/Pleshek line.  This line has not any connection to another Plesek/Pleshek line with Plesek´s and Pleshek´s living in Ohio, Michigan, California, Colorado and elsewhere within the U.S.A.

Table No. 1 - The Brief Main Family Tree Outlines

All of these    were born and live in

Jan around 1800

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Kateřina 04/1839 emigrated to the USA 1869

I Jakub 23/6/1830 emigrated to the USA 1869 with his wife and four sons

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Martin I I I I I I

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wedding day

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2/3/1863

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9/11/1862

Jan 6/7/1865

Josef 6/16/1868

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Emigration in 1869 to Wisconsin, U.S.A.

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Jan 5/11/1857

Emigration in 1890 to Wisconsin, U.S.A.

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Katerina Tomashek

Jacob Pleshek

Frank Pleshek

Wenceslaus Pleshek

John J. Pleshek

Joseph F. Pleshek

John Pleshek

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Children of Jacob and Katerina Pleshek born in the U.S.A. :

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Mathias Pleshek 2/1871

Mary Pleshek 7/28/1873

Adolph Pleshek 1876

Rosalia Pleshek 2/10/1879

Emma Pleshek 8/8/1882

Frank Pleshek 5/16/1892

More detail Family Tree available.

Some of connected known Family Tree Names :
Plesak, Tomasu, Smeykal, Smejkal, Mladek, Hronu, Preslicka, Hronu, Stefela, Pribyl, Panos, Mokry, Tomec, Slama, Vomastek, Svoboda, Pecha, Pelisek, Hruby, Jirku, Dusil, Stefel...
Tomashek, Tomasu, Kansor, Kantorova, Hammer, Hojek, Holly, Randa, Nemec, Nemetz, Kugel, Pribl, Bohr, Wotruba, Vomastic, Marez, Urban...

There are more than 96,000 variations of Czech surnames. If were taken into consideration, that the whole Czech Republic has 10 million inhabitants, it would mean, that in case of the equal distribution, some 100 inhabitants incl. children would account for one specific surname. But the situation is in fact different . Some surnames are more or less common, some (and they have majority) are rare and are connected only with few families. First twenty frequent surnames cover about 7 per cent of total population. First fourty frequent surnames account already 10 per cent and first 100 surnames belong to 17 per cent of all Czech population.
In accordance to the official records there are altogether 74 male and 88 female living within the whole Czech Republic nowadays and name is the 10745st in the order of occurence.

Where "Mezna" is situated :