Davenport Family History
Davenport Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Cheshire named
Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate
of Middle Welsh dafnu ‘to drop’, ‘to trickle’) + Old English
port ‘market town’.Irish (County Tipperary):
English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó
Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal
name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or
‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Davenport
Name Distribution of Davenport Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Davenport families
 1,138 - 2,273  380 - 1,137 |
 1 - 379  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Davenport families
|
11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Davenport census records
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Davenport Family Origin
Davenport Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Davenport Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Davenport Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Davenport census records
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Military Service by Davenport
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