When Susan Davis was born on 10 April 1795, in Buxton, York, Maine, United States, her father, John Davis III, was 46 and her mother, Hannah Fletcher, was 38. She married James Foss Townsend on 11 April 1828, in Buxton, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 31 October 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
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Possible Related NamesMartha Ann was born the third child of James Foss and Susan Davis Townsend in Buxton, York, Maine on 2 March, 1832. At the age of 8, she and her parents and brother James Francis (10) and sister Mary …
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