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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- 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 -
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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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