When Sylvester John Lawless was born on 5 June 1918, in Nelson, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Alexander Lawless, was 18 and his mother, Marie Louise Josephine Godin, was 14. He married Florence Amy Parsley on 14 November 1942, in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom. He died on 29 June 1995, in Wallace, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wallace, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Scottish, Irish, and English: nickname from Middle English laweles, laghles ‘lawless, uncontrolled by the law’, applied either to someone who was undisciplined or to an outlaw (i.e. one from whom the protection of the law had been withdrawn).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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