Brief Life History of David Woodwell
When David Woodwell Davis was born on 5 April 1821, in Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Woodwall Davies, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Bowen, was 25. He married Elizabeth Hopkins in 1846, in Llangiwg, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 20 March 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- David W Davies, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: David Woodwell Davies - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: William Woodwell Davies
- David Woodwell Davis, "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946"
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1831 · Merthyr Uprising
Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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