Brief Life History of Gwenllian
When Gwenllian Davis was born on 15 July 1844, in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Titus Lazarus Davis, was 37 and her mother, Mary Gwenllian Bowen, was 25. She married John Lodwick Edwards on 21 November 1863, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 14 February 1912, in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Willard City Cemetery, Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- Gwenifread Davies in household of Titus Davies, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Legacy NFS Source: Gwenllian Davis - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Gwenllian Bowen
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
1867 · Great Reform Act of 1867
The Great Reform Act of 1867 gave males the right to vote. This also helped to form the Welsh Liberal Party. It was the second of three reforms that would take place.
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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Life Sketch of Gwenllian "Gwennie" Davis- (1844-1912)
AFN-2S3S-DD GWENLLIAN DAVIS aka 'Gwennie' Gwenllian "Gwennie" Davis was born on 15 Jul 1844 at Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales. She was the only daughter born to Titus Davis and Ma …
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