Wałęsa wæs geboren in Popowe on Polalande, on þǣm nigon and twentigoðan dæge Hāligmōnaðes 1943. Hē wæs gerǣred on earmum cynne and his fæder wæs trēowwyrhta. He mētte forman scole and cræfta scole in Popowe, fore þe hē mētte Leninscipgeard on Gdańske (Stocznia Gdańska im. Lenina, nū Stocznia Gdańska) tō spearcawyrcendum cræftmenn on 1970. In 1969 hē wīfode Danute Gołośe, and se tēam nū hæfþ eahta cildru. His sunu Jarosław Wałęsa wæs gegylda Polalandes Sejmes (læsse hūs þæs Poliscan gemōtes); nū is gegylda Europisces Gemōtes. Lech Wałęsa is ǣfæst Rēmisc Crīsten, and hafaþ gesægd þæt his gelēafa ā helpode him under Solidarityes hefigum tīmum.