Piatek Family History
- Piatek Name Meaning
- Polish (Piatek): nickname piatek ‘fifth’, ‘Friday’. This may have been from a given name for a fifth child, but more often it is from the name of the day of the week. Illegitimate children were often given the name of the day of the week on which they were baptized; also, converted Jews took as a surname the name of the day on which they were baptized.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 14,235 Historical Documents with Piatek on Ancestry
- 7,529 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,618 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,046 Military Records
- 1,502 Immigration Records
- 2,540 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Piatek census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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