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Elizabeth Downing (Wingfield)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Dunham Magna, Norfolk, England
Death: 1621 (91-93)
Suffolk, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Wingfield and Elizabeth Wingfield (Wodehouse)
Wife of Geoffrey Downing, Gent.
Mother of Arthur Downing and William Downing, Gentleman
Sister of Sir John WIngfield and Amye Wingfield

Managed by: Judith "Judi" Elaine (McKee) Burns
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About Elizabeth Downing

  • 'Elizabeth WINGFIELD
  • 'Born: 1528, Dunham Magna, Norfolk, England
  • Father: Thomas WINGFIELD
  • Mother: Elizabeth WOODHOUSE
  • 'Married: Geoffrey DOWNING (b. 1524 - d. 1595)
  • Children:
    • 1. Arthur DOWNING of Lexham (b. ABT 1551) (m. Susan Calybutt)
    • 2. George DOWNING of Beccles (b. 1552 - d. 3 Oct 1610) (m. Dau. Bellamy)
    • 3. William DOWNING of Ipswich (b. 1554) (m. Mary Browne)
  • http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WINGFIELD.htm#Elizabeth WINGFIELD5
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  • 'Elizabeth Wingfield
  • 'F, b. circa 1530
  • Father Thomas Wingfield b. c 1502
  • Mother Elizabeth Woodhouse b. c 1509
  • ' Elizabeth Wingfield was born circa 1530 at of Dunham Magna, Norfolk, England. She married Geoffrey Downing circa 1551.
  • 'Family Geoffrey Downing b. 7 Mar 1524, d. 17 Sep 1595
  • Child
    • ◦George Downing+ b. c 1552, d. 8 Oct 1610
  • http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2404.htm#...
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  • ' Genealogy of the Downing family and immediate collateral relations: (1901)
  • http://www.archive.org/details/genealogyofdowni00down
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofdowni00down#page/11/mode/1up
    • I GENERATION (the first of whom detailed information can be obtained):
  • ' Geoffrey Downyng of Pynest, Poles Belcham, County Essex, gentleman. Born March 7, 1524; married, October 8, 1549, Elizabeth Wingfield, daughter of Thomas Wingfield of Great Dunham, County Norfolk, who was the son of Sir John Wingfield of Great Dunham, County Norfolk, the grandson of Sir John Wingfield, Knight of the Bath, of Letheringham, County Suffolk, and the great-grandson of Sir Robert Wingfield, Knt., of Letheringham, County Suffolk. (See chart, page 6).
  • ' The armorial bearings borne by the family of Geoffrey Downyng, as recorded in the heraldic authorities, are : Gules a fesse vaire, between two lions passant, guardant ermine. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet, a swan, or. He died September 17, 1595. Issue :
    • Arthur Downyng, born 1550; married 1573 ; died 1606.
    • II GENERATION:
    • Arthur Downyng of Lexham, County Norfolk, born August 1, 1550; married, June 10, 1573, Susan Calybut, daughter of Thomas Calybut of Castle Acre, County Norfolk. He died September 19, 1606. Issue :
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  • 'The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families. An attempt to trace, in both the male and female lines, the posterity of Moses Cleveland ... [and] of Alexander Cleveland ... with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives, also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn, and of other Winn families (1899)
  • http://www.archive.org/details/genealogyofcleve01clev
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofcleve01clev#page/264/mode/1up
  • Downing ancestry : (Poles, Belcham co., Essex).— Barry of ten ar. and vert, over all a griffin segreant or. Crest — An arm embowed in armour, tied round the wrist with a bow ar. holding in the hand ppr. a broad arrow or, feathered and headed of the first. ..... 'Sir Jeffery1 of Poles Belcham and Norwich, Eng., m. Elizabeth Wingfield5' ; George2 Ipswich, Eng. and Sand Crosse, schoolmaster, m. Dorcas Blois, da. of William of Grundsberg; Rev. Emanuel3 of Dublin, Ireland; Hon. Emanuel4 of St. Michael Parish, Cornhill Ward, lawyer Inner Temple, London, came to America 1638, of Salem, Mass., rep. m.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofcleve01clev#page/265/mode/1up
  • Lucy Winthrop4, bap. Groton, co. Suflfulk, Kiik . Jan. 27, 1601 ; Mary5 Downing. m. Anthony Stoddard1.
  • Wingfield ancestry: 5 arms (Letheringham). Ar. on a bend gu. cotised sa , 3 pairs of wings conjoined in lure of the field. Crest — A cap per pale ermines and ar. charged with a fesse gu. betw. 2 wings expanded. . . . Sir John, a renowned warrior temp. Edward III, 1327. Sir John1 of Letheringham, Suffolk co., Eng., 1461, m. Elizabeth Gousell2 ; Sir John2 of L. m. Elizabeth Fitz Lewis2; Sir John3 of Durham, Magna, Norfolk co., Eng., m. Margaret Dorward3 ; Thomas4 m. Elizabeth Woodhouse, da. Sir Thomas of Kimberly, Norfolk co. ; 'Elizabeth5 Wingfield m. Sir Jeffry Downing.1'
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Elizabeth Downing's Timeline

1528
1528
Dunham Magna, Norfolk, England
1550
August 1, 1550
Belchano, Essex County, England, United Kingdom
1554
1554
Beccles, Suffolk, England
1621
1621
Age 93
Suffolk, England
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