When Ann Davis was born on 31 March 1791, in Vowchurch, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Davies, was 49 and her mother, Elizabeth Prosser, was 43. She married William Dalley on 6 May 1819, in Leominster, Herefordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1848 and lived in Leominster, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 21 March 1875, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
Possible Related NamesJames Dalley James Dalley was born 20 December 1822, at Leominster, Herforshire, England, the son of William Dalley and Ann Davies. Little is known of his childhood except that he attended sc …
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