Brief Life History of Timothy Bowen
When Timothy Bowen Davis Sr was born on 18 September 1842, in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Titus Lazarus Davis, was 36 and his mother, Mary Gwenllian Bowen, was 23. He married Charlotte Hayball on 22 June 1887, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 21 April 1916, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Timothy Davies in household of Titus Davies, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Timothy Davies, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Timothy Davis, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Timothy Bowen Davis was the son of Titus Davis and Mary Gwenllian Bowen Davies. Shortly after arriving in Utah, Timothy obtained property in the Promontory Utah area near that of his sister Gwennie an …
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