When William Henry Divett was born on 16 November 1832, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Divett, was 26 and his mother, Mary Ann Roberts, was 23. He married Rebecca Cox on 30 March 1851, in Saint Mary's Church, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Liverpool, Lancashire, England in 1881 and Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died on 12 December 1898, in Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 66, and was buried in Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia.
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Known as parish of Sutherland.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
When the Industrial Revolution hit Lancashire, cotton mills started spring up everywhere. This helped the cotton industry to start booming even moreso in Lancashire.
Shortened form of Irish McKivett, which is probably a metathesized form of McKevitt, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Daibhéid (see McDevitt ).
Americanized of Dutch Kievit or the German cognate Kiewitt.
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