When Lucinda Melissa Davenport was born on 1 July 1838, in Farmington, Oakland, Michigan, United States, her father, James Squire Davenport Sr, was 36 and her mother, Almira Phelps, was 33. She married Stephen Forsdick on 2 October 1856, in Farmington, Oakland, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 3 April 1892, in Chester, Thayer, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Chester, Thayer, Nebraska, United States.
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After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Republic, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Republic, Kansas, United States
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu ‘to drop, to trickle’) + Old English port ‘market town’.
Irish: in Tipperary, this is an English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.
History: John Davenport (died 1670) arrived in Boston, MA, in 1637. He came of an English Cheshire family associated with Capesthorne Hall, near Macclesfield.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesLucinda Melissa Davenport Fosdick 1838 - 1892 By Sharon Mangum Bliss Lucinda Melissa Davenport, was born July 1, 1838, in Farmington, Oakland County, Michigan. She was the seventh child born to James …
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