When Nancy Elizabeth Davis was born on 2 March 1769, in Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel B. Davis, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Leadley, was 24. She married Abel Garrett from January 1792 to December 1792, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died from 31 December 1842 to 12 June 1843, in Saline, Missouri, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesCitation Past and present of Saline County, Missouri by Napton, William Barclay Indianapolis, 1910, B. F. Bowen & Co. p. 798-800 Notes p. 798-800 ISAIAH GARRETT. Isaiah Garrett was born about four …
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