When William Brown Stewart Wilson was born on 30 March 1885, in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Wilson, was 52 and his mother, Susannah Stewart, was 32. He married Margaret Isabella Easton Stevenson on 31 December 1909, in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Manitoba, Canada in 1916. He died on 5 February 1961, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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