Brief Life History of Elizabeth A.
When Elizabeth A. Davis was born about 1859, in Usborne Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada, her father, Samuel Davis, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Brownlee, was 31. She married William Henry Small on 28 January 1880, in London, Canada West, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Nipissing, Ontario, Canada in 1911.
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- Eliza Davis in household of Samul Davis, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Elizabeth Davis in entry for William Edmond Small and Ethel Burns, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Eliza A Small in household of William H Small, "Canada Census, 1911"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
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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