When Maria Davis was born on 15 August 1790, in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, her father, John Davis, was 26 and her mother, Mary Jones, was 21. She married Thomas Giles Jr on 17 December 1812, in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841 and Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 21 June 1866, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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 Names***Re-typed up word for word by Odetta Jeane Bramwell Farr, during her 90th year, from a photocopy of a book. The book's name is unknown to me but the history has been in my possession for many years. …
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