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.
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 .
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