Louisa S Davis

Female1872–31 May 1936

Brief Life History of Louisa S

When Louisa S Davis was born in 1872, in Orange, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Edward Henry Davis, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Hazell, was 26. She married Charles Ernest Whiley in 1899, in Orange, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 31 May 1936, in her hometown, at the age of 64.

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Charles Ernest Whiley
1873–1949
Louisa S Davis
1872–1936
Marriage: 1899

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Louisa S Davis - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Louise Sarah Davis

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  • Marriage
    1899Orange, New South Wales, Australia
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    Siblings (10)

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    World Events (6)

    1877

    Age 5

    Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.

    1892

    Age 20

    Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

    1901

    Age 29

    First Federal election.

    Name Meaning

    English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.

    Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .

    History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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