More bad news from Book D - the death records. In 1851, the twins Anna and Veronika of Jakub and Rosalie died at 7 and 9 days old. But I also found that Rosalie, Jan Smejkal's mother (Anna Bals' grandmother) died on October 15, 1858 at the age of 35. That means that Jan was only two years old at the time. That explains why Jakub Smejkal has a new wife, Anna, in 1859.
http://digi.ceskearchivy.cz/en/3363/103
The record also says that Jakub Smejkal, Rosalie's father, was a "gruntovnik" and I found a site that translates that as "farmstead owner". The "domkar" we see in many records translates as "crofter" or "cottager". I'm going to link to that site because it has some other translations we may need:
http://kotrla.familytreeguide.com/showsource.php?sourceID=S114&tree=T1&PHPSESSID=5a54c62013194a82d40afb5985a06922
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