Brief Life History of Robert
Robert Davis was born about 1795, in Castlederg, County Tyrone, Ireland. He had at least 2 daughters. In 1870, at the age of 76, his occupation is listed as miller. He died on 1 December 1871, in his hometown, at the age of 77.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Robert Davis - birth-name: Robert Davis
- Robert Davis Death Certificate Workhouse Castlederg, Tyrone Northern Ireland
- Robert Davis in entry for Charles McClung and Rosanna Davis, "Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913"
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World Events (3)
1798
Battle of Antrim.
1798
The Young Ireland rebellion of 1798 failed.
1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
Name Meaning
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.
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