When Willem Adrianus Raadsheer was born on 11 January 1898, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Johannes Cornelis Raadsheer, was 33 and his mother, Hendrika Sibylla Uyleman, was 18. He married Johanna Hendrika Louisa Klene on 14 October 1920. He died on 26 May 1948, in his hometown, at the age of 50.
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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