Brief Life History of Steve
Steve Davenport was born in 1838, in Kentucky, United States. He married Nancy Caroline Ball about 1865, in McCreary, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Precinct 8 Pine Knot, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died in 1958, at the age of 120.
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Sources (3)
- Steven Devenport, "United States Census, 1880"
- Steve Davenport in entry for Zion Davenport and Nannie Kidd, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Steve Davenport in entry for Zion Davenport, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
Spouse and Children
1838–1958 Male
1840– Female
Children (7)
1864– Male
1866– Male
1866–1941 Male
1870– Male
1872– Female
+2 More Children
World Events (8)
1846
Age 8
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
Age 12
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 32
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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