When William Shulmier was born on 10 December 1840, in Mörfelden, Groß-Gerau, Grand Duchy of Hesse, his father, Johann Heinrich Schulmeyer, was 46 and his mother, Anna Elenore Emmel, was 40. He married Salome R. Eyer on 8 July 1866, in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Harrison Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Concord Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. He died on 10 February 1904, in Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery, Soldiers Grove, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States.
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Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John , but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented.
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