When Mary Davenport was born on 24 May 1862, in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Davenport, was 44 and her mother, Mary Jane Austin, was 24. She died before 1871, in Little Budworth, Cheshire, England.
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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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