Brief Life History of Lewis
When Lewis Lewis was born on 12 August 1846, in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, David Thomas Lewis, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Jones, was 34. He married Eliza Lydia Wakefield on 24 April 1880, in Humboldt, Nevada, United States. He lived in Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 7 January 1920, in Madera, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Elk Grove, Sacramento, California, United States.
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- Lewis Lewis household in "United States Census, 1900"
- Lewis Lewis, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Lewis Lewis, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1850
Historic Boundaries: 1850: Sacramento, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Lewis, Leweis, Lowis, from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame, famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus, which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis, French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis, Laweys, Lawes, by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence .
Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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