When Chester Allen Wallis was born on 28 January 1901, in Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, David Allen Ellis Wallis, was 46 and his mother, Myrtella Evelyn Corbin, was 24. He married Marion Eliza Lapham in 1933, in Hopedale, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1901 and Douglas, Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. He died on 24 April 1979, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
Scottish and English: from Anglo-Norman French Waleis, Walais ‘Welshman’, also sometimes ‘Breton’ (from Old English wēalas, walas, plural of walh, wealh, originally meaning a ‘Roman citizen’ and referring to the native British population, but in Old English this term later came to mean ‘serf, unfree person, foreigner’ or ‘Welshman’). In western and central England the medieval reference is clearly to Welshmen. In Norfolk and Lincolnshire, the reference was probably to Bretons, many of whom settled in the eastern counties after the Conquest. Compare Welsh , Walsh . The idea that the Scottish surname refers to the Welsh-speaking Britons of Strathclyde is erroneous.
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