Kolek Family History
- Kolek Name Meaning
- Polish and Czech: from a pet form of Polish Mikolaj or Czech Mikoláš, vernacular forms of the Greek personal name Nikolaos (see Nicholas). Polish (Kolek): nickname for a solitary person, from kolek ‘peg’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,849 Historical Documents with Kolek on Ancestry
- 9,341 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,447 Census and Voter Lists
- 648 Military Records
- 867 Immigration Records
- 1,546 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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