When Stanley Wasilik Jr was born on 7 May 1910, in California, United States, his father, Stanley Wasilik, was 47 and his mother, Jynacya Urbanski, was 38. He married Helen Virgene Fisher on 15 July 1933, in Butte, South Dakota, United States. He lived in Lead, Lawrence, South Dakota, United States in 1920. He died on 28 April 1988, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 77.
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Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of numerous places (in Derbys., Durham, Gloucs., Staffs., Wilts., and Yorks.) so called from Old English stān ‘stone’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’. This is well established as a given name, and has been widely used as such since the 1880s. It had been in occasional use over a century earlier. Its popularity seems to have stemmed at least in part from the fame of the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley ( 1841–1904 ), who was born in Wales as John Rowlands but later took the name of his adoptive father, a New Orleans cotton dealer.
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