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sedlak Name Meaning and History

Czech (Sedlák): status name from Czech sedlák ‘peasant’, ‘farmer’. A sedlák was a comparatively rich farmer, with more land than a zahradník ‘smallholder’, ‘truck farmer’ (see Zahradnik) or a chalupník ‘cottager’ (see Chalupa).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The sedlak name in History

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Distribution of sedlak Families in the US in 1920
Number of sedlak families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 40 - Messages: 115
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Mary Sedlak Kelly Peggy Kelly Gunderson 3
George Sedlak from Barca Czechoslovakia joshie_star 0
Sedlak in Massachusetts tmartinuk1 0
Plattsmouth Nebraska terencek 0
Sedlak- Elizabeth heavenleigh41 0
SEDLAK FAM.-PRESOV,AUSTRIA HUNGARY srstone 7
Vaclav Sedlak of Krucemburk/Krisova [Bohemia] reatrotter53 0
Shedlockszedlak brat625 0
Sedlaks of Presov and Bratislava Bill Brush 3
Anna Marie Sedlak l_stubblefield 7
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