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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- Legacy NFS Source: Louisa S Davis - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Louise Sarah Davis
Spouse and Children
1873–1949 Male
1872–1936 Female
Parents and Siblings
1848–1934 Male
1846–1922 Female
Siblings (10)
1871–1871 Male
1872–1936 Female
1874–1953 Male
1876– Female
1877–1949 Male
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World Events (6)
1877
Age 5
1892
Age 20
1901
Age 29
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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