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Question: Is the last name Talek uncommon!?
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The name Talek seems to have it's origin in Cornwall, England, but to find your own family's origin you must trace your family lineage, beginning with your parents, then their parents, and so on back as far as you can go!.

Talek :
Retallack is a name endemic to Cornwall, and traceable in that southwestern English county back to 1497!. The name is probably derived from Talek, recorded back to 1349, by addition of a demonstrative pronoun (those Taleks!)!. Talek in turn is most likely from the old Cornish talawg meaning high forehead!. The comparable Welsh name Tallwch and Pictish Talorc can be traced back to the 6th century!. There are numerous other ideas concerning the origin of the Retallack surname from Cornish place names, Cornish saints, mine workings and Norse and Greek gods, and these are all reviewed here!. Retallacks in Cornwall were largely miners and farmers!. Many left Cornwall for the United States and Australia in the 1850's!.
http://www!.uoregon!.edu/~gregr/surname!.ht!.!.!.

TALLACK talek, meaning : big-browed!.
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!.!.!.!.But Botallack in St!. Just may well be 'the dwelling of Tallack,' though not necessarily of that Tallack or Tallwch, who was the father of the Tristan of the romances!. If, as is possible, 'Tallack' is an adjective derived from 'tal,' a brow or front, a word which is common enough in Welsh place-names, the name is otherwise accounted for, and would be fairly descriptive, for the place is on the front of a cliff!. also there exists still a Cornish surname 'Tallack!.' It is only the accumulation of Arthurian names, or of what are possibly such, that would make one see any reason for including this one!.!.!.!.!.
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