Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Nowak jr was born on 8 September 1926, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Joseph Nowak Sr, was 21 and his mother, Apolonia Ostrowski, was 16. He married Patricia Grzesk on 12 May 1956, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 24 December 2009, in Fox Crossing, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Menasha, Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States.
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Sources (5)
- Joseph Nowak in household of Joseph Nowak, "United States Census, 1940"
- Joseph Nowak, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Joseph Menasha Nowak Jr, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
Spouse and Children
1926–2009 Male
1936–1997 Female
Children (1)
1957–1995 Male
Parents and Siblings
1905–1991 Male
1910–1928 Female
Siblings (1)
1926–2009 Male
World Events (8)
1927
Age 1
1932 · Wisconsin Passes First Unemployment Compensation Law
Age 6
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
Age 22
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Andrzej, Janusz, Jozef, Stanislaw, Zbigniew, Janina, Jerzy, Boguslaw, Casimir, Lech, Piotr, Tadeusz.
Polish, Rusyn (from Poland), Sorbian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname for a newcomer to a place or someone new to a profession or occupation, from a derivative of Polish and Sorbian nowy ‘new’. This surname is extremely common in Poland, and also very frequent in Germany (see also 2 below).
Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Novák, and Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Rusyn, and Jewish Novak , both generally meaning ‘newcomer’. Compare Nowack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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