When Rebecca Davidson was born about 1756, in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Davidson, was 38 and her mother, Anne Martha Hannah Thompson, was 33.
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Scottish, northern English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name, the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.
Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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