When Sarah Davis was born on 1 January 1829, in Llanfihangel in Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Daniel Davis, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Thomas, was 31. She married Benjamin John Phillips about 15 June 1850. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Montana, United States in 1870 and Deer Lodge, Montana, United States in 1880. She died on 11 February 1898, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 69.
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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.
In 1851, Brigham City is settled and named after Brigham Young.
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 NamesThe following is from the "Barnard White Family Book" Daniel Davis or Davies and his wife Sarah Thomas were in the first company of Welsh Saints to leave for Zion in 1849. Though small in stature, …
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