Brief Life History of Simon
When Simon Davis Jr was born on 17 May 1714, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Simon Davis, was 30 and his mother, Dorothy Heald, was 21. He had at least 7 sons and 5 daughters with Hannah Gates. He died on 9 April 1754, in Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 39, and was buried in Old Burial Ground, Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Simon Dauis, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Simon Davis, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Simon Davis, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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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