When Norma Jean Semple was born on 13 May 1912, in East Garafraxa Township, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Mackie Semple, was 37 and her mother, Bertha Clark, was 26. She married William Franklin Wilson on 22 November 1941, in Fergus, Centre Wellington, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. She died on 11 December 2002, in Arthur, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 90, and was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Belwood, Centre Wellington, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
Scottish (Glasgow): nickname from Middle English, Older Scots, and Old French simple ‘simple, straightforward, humble’ (from Latin simplus). The Scottish name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century, and a Scottish family of this name held the hereditary post of Sheriff of Renfrewshire from the 13th century.
English: variant of Sample .
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