Diana Davis

Brief Life History of Diana

When Diana Davis was born on 12 April 1837, in Llanfihangel in Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales, her father, Daniel Davis, was 43 and her mother, Sarah Thomas, was 39. She married William Nicol Fife on 9 July 1854, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 12 September 1884, in Willcox, Cochise, Arizona, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Cochise, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Nicol Fife
1831–1914
Diana Davis
1837–1884
Marriage: 9 July 1854
Sara Jane Fife
1855–1932
William Wilson Fife
1857–1897
Diana Davis Fife
1859–1904
Phoebe Fife
1861–
John Daniel Fife
1863–1944
Walter Thompson Fife
1866–1927
Agnes Ann Fife
1869–1891
Emma Fife
1871–1874
Robert Nicol Fife
1873–1874
James S Fife
1873–1878
Barnard Fife
1881–1881

Sources (32)

  • Dianah Fife in household of Wm Fife, "United States Census, 1860"
  • England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
  • Diana Davis Fife, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1839 · The Rebecca Riots Take Place

The Rebecca Riots were a group of protests in west Wales from 1839-1843. The people involved were mostly poor farmers, primarily men dressed as women. The group was called “Rebecca and her daughters”, a title believed to have come the book of Genesis. They mostly fought against the toll-gates. There is only record of one death during the riots: a young Sarah Williams had been warned that the rioters were coming, but upon refusing to leave, was killed.

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1850 · Coal Fields in South Wales Developed

Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.

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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DANIEL DAVIS AND HIS FAMILY

The 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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