Brief Life History of Cecil Eric
When Cecil Eric Davis was born on 29 April 1929, in L'Anse-Amour, Labrador, Newfoundland, his father, William Henry Davis, was 34 and his mother, Isabelle Sweet, was 32. He lived in L'Anse-Amour, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 30 April 2014, at the age of 85, and was buried in L'Anse-Amour, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Cecil Davis in household of William Davis, "Canada, Newfoundland Census, 1935"
- Cecil Eric Davis, "Find A Grave Index"
- Cecil Davis, "Canada, Newfoundland Census, 1945"
Parents and Siblings
1895–1976 Male
1897– Female
Siblings (4)
1919–2021 Male
1922–2014 Female
1927– Female
1929–2014 Male
World Events (2)
1941
Age 12
1982
Age 53
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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