When Maretta Louisa Davis was born on 29 July 1859, in Springfield, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, John Wentworth Davis, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Jane Spragg, was 27. She married Rev. John Drake Wetmore on 24 December 1879, in Springfield, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Gladstone, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada in 1921 and Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1947. She died on 17 June 1956, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 96, and was buried in Belyea's Cove Cemetery, Belyeas Cove, Wickham, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada.
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The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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July 4, 1901, the Hartland covered bridge was finished. It spans across the Saint John River, making it the longest covered bridge. Until it was built, the only way across the river was by ferry.
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.
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