Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Davies was born in 1758, in Gayton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Davies, was 45 and her mother, Elisabeth, was 38. She lived in Heswall, Cheshire, England in 1758 and Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1828. She was buried in St John The Baptist's Church, Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Mary Davies, "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000"
- Mary Davies, "England, Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1598-1900"
- Mary Davies, "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000"
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World Events (8)
1770 · Boston Tea Party
Thousands of British troops were sent to Boston to enforce Britain's tax laws. Taxes were repealed on all imports to the American Colonies except tea. Americans, disguised as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea imported by the East India Company into the Boston Harbor in protest. This escalated tensions between the American Colonies and the British government.
1775 · The Shot Heard Around the World
"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
1787 · English Convicts Sail to Australia
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: variant of Davis , a patronymic equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd ‘Dafydd's son’. The name is especially numerous in south Wales. This form of the name probably shows the influence of Davy , the common English form of the personal name David in the late medieval and early modern periods (see Davey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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