When Lucinda E. Davenport was born in November 1856, in Tennessee, United States, her father, William Carroll Davenport Sr, was 28 and her mother, Elisabeth S “Eliza” Stanley, was 18. She married Robert Talley Bryson on 30 December 1877. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Civil District 6, Cannon, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Woodbury, Cannon, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 10 August 1932, at the age of 75, and was buried in Reed Cemetery, Cannon, Tennessee, United States.
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English (Lancashire and Cheshire): habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu ‘to drop, to trickle’) + Old English port ‘market town’.
Irish: in Tipperary, this is an English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.
History: John Davenport (died 1670) arrived in Boston, MA, in 1637. He came of an English Cheshire family associated with Capesthorne Hall, near Macclesfield.
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