When Percy Wileman was born on 28 April 1897, in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Thomas Wileman, was 24 and his mother, Susan Jane Twigger, was 26. He married Ethel Maud Mary Bown in 1917, in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 7 February 1969, in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71.
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English (Derbyshire and Leicestershire): occupational name perhaps from Middle English wyle ‘fish-trap’ (see Wile ) + man ‘man’, denoting someone who made or used fish traps, or a variant of Willman .
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