When William Gene Gajdosik was born on 17 August 1936, in Matagorda, Texas, United States, his father, William Venice Gajdosik, was 33 and his mother, Alice Lucille Hudler, was 18. He lived in Justice Precinct 5, Matagorda, Texas, United States in 1940 and Matagorda, Matagorda, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 11 November 1989, at the age of 53, and was buried in Van Vleck, Matagorda, Texas, United States.
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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