Brief Life History of Titus Lazarus
When Titus Lazarus Davis was born on 8 August 1806, in Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, David Lazarus Davies III, was 27 and his mother, Rachel Thomas, was 20. He married Mary Gwenllian Bowen on 12 January 1840, in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales for about 10 years. He died on 12 April 1898, in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Willard City Cemetery, Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Titus Davies, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Wales, Select Births and Baptisms, 1541-1907
- Titus Davies, "Wales, Marriage Bonds, 1650-1900"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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Biography of Titus Lazarus Davis & Mary Gwenllian Bowen, by their son Thomas A. Davis from Welsh Mormon History, Center for Family History and Genealogy, BYU
Davis, Thomas A. - Autobiography TITUS DAVIS by his son Thomas Davis Life History of Titus Davis and Mary Gwenllian Bowen. Written by Their Sixth Child, Thomas Ap. Davis Before his Death 21 April, 192 …
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