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- 'Genealogical gleanings in England (1901) Vol. 1
- http://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalglea01byuwate
- http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea01byuwate#page/36/mod...
- [The foregoing extracts show clearly .......
- http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea01byuwate#page/38/mod...
- The English genealogical works which attempt to give the ancestry of Sir George Downing, baronet, give it erroneously. The error seems first to have been promulgated by Anthony a Wood in his Athenae Oxoniensis, published 1691-2, where, in an account of Dr. Calybute Downing, the Puritan writer, son of Calybute Downing of Shennington, Gloucestershire, Sir George is called his son. The error has been copied into several Baronetages. Dr. Downing's ancestry has been carried back through his grandfather, Arthur, of Lexham in Norfolk, to his great-grand-father Geoffrey Downing of Norwich, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wingfield. There are no indications of a relationship between this family and that of George Downing of Ipswich, Suffolk, who, as Mr. Waters shows, was father of Emanuel, the father of Sir George. Savage names Mary, wife of Anthony Stoddard ; James ; Anne, wife of Capt. Joseph Gardner and afterwards of Gov. Simon Bradstreet ; John ; and 'Dorcas', as other children of Emanuel Downing ; and there was probably also a son Joshua (Mass. Hist. Coll. 4th S. vi. 79). Emanuel Downing announces his intention to leave New England in the fall of 1654 with Gen. Sedgwick (Ibid. p. 84). He was living as late as Sept. 6, 1658, in Edinburgh (Ibid. p. 86). His wife was living in England, June 27, 1662 (Ibid. p. 544). The place and date of death of neither are known. Interesting letters from Emanuel Downing and other members of his family, are printed in the volume of the Mass. Hist. Coll. cited.
- Henry Downing, father of Col. Adam Downing, distinguished as an officer in William lll.'s army in Ireland, may have been, as represented by Burke (Ext. and Dorm. Baronetage, ed. 1844, p. 163 ; Landed Gentry, ed. 1853, i. 453), a son of Dr. Calybute. We find no evidence that Sir George had a brother Henry.
- It is not probable that Wood obtained his information from the family, for the deed of which Mr. Waters gives an abstract proves that Charles Downing, son of Sir George, knew that his grandfather's name was Emanuel so late as 1700, eight years after the publication of Wood's Athenae. The following letter, copied for us by G. D. Scull, Esq., of Oxford, England, from the original, shows that Wood, while engaged on his work, applied to the Rev. Increase Mather for information about the Downings, but with little success : ......
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- 'Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America: with a brief history of ... By Henry Whittemore
- http://books.google.com/books?id=cSrlHHj2AFcC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq...
- Pg. 156
- EMANUEL DOWNING, of Salem, from London, where he was a lawyer of the Inner Temple, inhabitant of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill Ward, was probably son of Emanuel, a clergyman In Ireland, came in 1638, with his wife Lucy, daughter of Adam Withrop, Esq., of Groton, in County Suffolk, where she was baptized 1601, sister of our first Governor of Massachusetts, married 1622. The were admitted of the church 1638, and he was sworn a freeman 1539, representative the same year 1640, 1641, 1644 and 1648, was proposed for an Assistant in 1641, but not chosen. His children were George, 1623 or 4; Mary, who came over in 1633; James who came over with his uncle, the Governor, 1630; Susan, who came with Mary, Ann, Lucy, and these following born on this side of the ocean, John, 1640, and 'Dorcas,1641'. He went home in 1642, back next year, and went again 1644, but came back next year. The date of his death is not found, nor that of his wife, thought we see proof of his request to the General Court, September 1653, for his 600 acres to be laid out, and of her living 1656, when she gave to Capt. Joseph Gardner dowry on his marriage with her daughter, and the same shows that her husband Emanuel was dead.
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- 'Clarke's kindred genealogies. A genealogical history of certain descendants of Joseph Clarke, Dorchester, 1630; Denice Darling, Braintree, 1662; Edward Gray, Plymouth, 1643; and William Horne, Dover, 1659; and sketches of the Orne (Horne), Pynchon, and Downing families (1896)
- http://www.archive.org/details/clarkeskindredge00clar
- http://www.archive.org/stream/clarkeskindredge00clar#page/143/mode/1up
- DOWNING GENEALOGY.
- "Downing, Benjamin, Hatfield 1679, took the o. of alleg. that yr. and m. the second yr. Sarah, d, perhaps eldest, of William Hunter ; may have been, but prob. not, s. of Emanuel. Dennis, Kittery 1650, in Nov. 1652 sw. alleg. to Mass., and was k. by the Ind. 4 July, 1697, unless the sufferer were s. of the first. Emanuel, Salem, from London, where he was a lawyer of the Inner Temple, inhab. of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill Ward, came in 1638 with his wife Lucy, d. of Adam Winthrop, Esqr. of Groton, in co. Suff. where she was baptized 27 Jan. 1601, sis. of our first Gov. of Mass., m. 10 Apr. 1622. They were adm. of the ch. 4 Nov., 1638, and he was sw. a freeman Mar., 1639, rep. the same yr. 40, 1, 4 and 8 ; was propos. for an Assist, in 1641, but not chos. His ch. were George, b. prob. in 1623, or 4, and was perhaps, kept in sch. at home until his f. came ; Mary, who came May, 1633 with Gov., Coddington in the " Mary and Jane," and in Nov., of that yr. was adm. of the ch. in Boston ; James, wh. was brot. by his uncle, the Gov. in the Arbella 1630; Susan, wh. came at the same time with Mary ; Ann ; Lucy ; and these foll. b. on our side of the ocean, John, bap. 1 Mar., 1640 ; and 'Dorcas, 7 Feb., 1641'. He went home early in 1642, back next yr. and went again in 1644, on business, but came back next yr. The date of his d. is not found, nor that of his w. tho. we see proof of his req. to the Gen. Ct. Sept., 1653 for his 600 acres to be laid out, and of her liv. 4 Aug., 1656, when she gave to Capt. Joseph Gardner dowry on his m. with her d. and the same shows that her h. Emanuel was d. The s. James, I think, liv. at Ipswich ; Mary m. Anthony Stoddard of Boston ; Ann was w. of the intrepid Capt. Gardner, k. at the gr. Narraganset swamp fight in Philip's war, and after m. Gov. Bradstreet. There was a John D. wh. d. at Boston, 29 April, 1694, but he was a merch. from Nevis, where was his fam. ......
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Dorcas Downing's Timeline
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June 11, 1626
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February 7, 1640
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Colonies
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March 29, 1963
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November 19, 1964
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