When Valerie Cheryl Ann Williams was born on 15 March 1958, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Arnold Leroy Williams II, was 19 and her mother, Loraine Yvette Hector, was 19. She lived in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 2000 and Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 2001. She died on 11 February 2012, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 53.
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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