William Davenport

Brief Life History of William

When William Davenport was born on 3 June 1694, in Kingston, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Humphrey Davenport III, was 37 and his mother, Johanna Anna Rosenkrans, was 27. He died on 3 October 1727, in his hometown, at the age of 33.

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Family Time Line

Humphrey Davenport III
1656–1735
Johanna Anna Rosenkrans
1667–1740
Rachel Davenport
1684–1705
Jan Davenport
1685–1730
Nathaniel Davenport
1686–1727
Elisabeth Davenport
1689–1777
Jacob Davenport
1691–1727
William Davenport
1694–1727
Humphrey Davenport Jr. IV
1697–1768
Sarah Davenport
1699–
John Davenport
1702–1791
Rachel Davenport
1705–
Maria Davenport
1708–
Helenah Davenport
1708–
Helena Davenport
1711–

Sources (3)

  • Copy of Humphfry Davinpoort in entry for William Davinpoort, "New York, Church Records, 1660-1954"
  • William Davinpoort, "New York, Church Records, 1660-1954"
  • Legacy NFS Source: William Davenport -

Name Meaning

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.

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