Brief Life History of Katherine Kennicott
When Katherine Kennicott Davis was born on 25 June 1892, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, her father, Maxwell Gaddis Davis, was 33 and her mother, Jessie Foote Barton, was 29. She lived in Concord, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950 and Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1980. She died on 20 April 1980, in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Katherine K Davis, "United States 1950 Census"
- Katherine Davis, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Miss Katherine Davis, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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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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