When George William Davis was born in November 1852, in Noble, Ohio, United States, his father, James T Davis, was 24 and his mother, Ruth Ann Ball, was 21. He married Martha Jane Grandon on 1 January 1878, in Noble, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Carlisle, Stock Township, Noble, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Stock Township, Noble, Ohio, United States for about 15 years. He died on 27 July 1925, in East Union, Noble, Ohio, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Berne Township, Fairfield, Ohio, United States.
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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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