Brief Life History of Margaret Jane
Margaret Jane Davis was born on 7 November 1838, in Teelin, County Donegal, Ireland as the daughter of Richard Davis and Catherine Scott. She married Thomas Longdin on 24 September 1867, in Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1905 and Belleville Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1910. She died in New Jersey, United States, and was buried in New Jersey, United States.
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- Margarett Langdon in household of Henry E Wilson, "New York State Census, 1905"
- Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911
- Margaret Jane Davis, "Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1844
The 1844 revision of the New Jersey State Constitution made some significant changes. Suffrage rights were revoked from women and non-whites, meaning that only white men could vote. A separation of powers was established between executive, legislative, and judicial branches. A new bill of rights was provided, and the state now had the right to elect the governor.
1879
Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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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