Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet

Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet, of East Hatley was the son and heir of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet.

His father worked as Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1660 until 1684. In 1680, the younger George Downing joined his father as a Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer, holding that position until April 1689. His father died in July 1684, and the younger Downing inherited his father's baronetcy.

Sir George Downing, 2nd Bt. married Lady Catherine Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury. The couple had one son, Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet.

Children

1. Sir George Downing, 3rd Bt

Note he definitely did not have a daughter named Isabel who came to Maryland

References

• John Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain, Vol. IV, p. 299
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Downing,_2nd_Baronet
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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/14/mode/1up
• IV GENERATION:
• Emanuel Downyng of Sherrington, County Gloucester; Dublin, Ireland; Salem, Mass.; and London, England; born December 10, 1594; married (first), June 7, 1614, Miss Ware of Dublin, Ireland, daughter of Sir James Ware. They had several children, but no records can be found. He married (second). April 10, 1622, Lucy Winthrop, daughter of Adam Winthrop, of Groton, County Suffolk, and sister of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts. Upon the invitation of Governor John Winthrop (his brother-in-law), he and his family came to New England in 1638. His children attended the public school at Salem, Mass., afterwards (George, Nicholas and Henry) at Harvard College, of which George Downing (1642) was the second graduate. In 1646, they returned to England. It is doubtful, however, whether the children by his first wife (Miss Ware) returned with him.
• He died July 26, 1676.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofdowni00down#page/15/mode/1up
• GEORGE DOWNING of East Hatley, County Cambridge, born 1623, was fortunate to gain as his wife, in 1654, a lady greatly distinguished for her birth and beauty: FRANCES HOWARD, fourth daughter of Sir William Howard, Knt., of Naworth Castle, County Cumberland, and sister of Colonel Charles Howard, first Earl of Carlisle, and a descendant of that unfortunate Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, who was arraigned and convicted upon charges of high treason and rebellion, and beheaded, by order of Queen Elizabeth, on June 2, 1572, for
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• tenderness shown to, and arrangements made to marry, Mary, Queen of Scots.
• Sir George Downing's progress to power was undoubtedly greatly advanced by his matrimonial union with "the blood of all the Howards."
• He was Knighted in May, 1660, and created a Baronet July I, 1663.
• He died July 2, 1684.
• Issue:
  • ' 1. George Downing (Sir) Second Baronet of East Hatley, county Cambridge, one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, time of King James II (1685); married, 1682, Catharine Cecil, eldest daughter of James Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and had an only son: .... SEE BOOK
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  • 2. William Downing -- died without issue.
  • 3. Charles Downing, Comptroller of Customs, married Sarah Garrard, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Garrard, Baronet, and died April 15, 1740, leaving a son: ....
  • 4. Frances Downing married John Cotton, son and heir of Sir John Cotton, Baronet.
  • 5. Philadelphia Downing married Sir Henry Pickering, Baronet.
  • 6. Lucy Dowing married Sir Richard Bulkeley, Baronet.
  • 7. Mary Downing married Thomas Barnardiston, Esq.
  • 8. Anne Downing (no further trace).
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• 'Genealogical gleanings in England (1901) Vol. 1
• http://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalglea01byuwate
• http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea01byuwate#page/35/mod...
• Sir George Downing of East Hatley, in the County of Cambridge, Knight and Baronet; 24 August, 1683, with codicil added 7 July, 1684; proved 19 July, 1684. My body to be interred in the vault which I have made uuder the chancel at Crawden, alias Croyden, in the county of Cambridge, by the body of my wife Frances. 'Son George Downing, Esq.', and son William named. Houses in or near King Street, in the city of Westminster, lately called Hampden House, which I hold by long lease from the Crown, and Peacock Court there, which I hold by lease from the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ; all which are now demolished and rebuilt, or rebuilding, and called Downing Street. To Edward Lord Viscount Morpeth and Sir Henry Pickering,* Baronet, my son-in-law, in trust, &c. Bequests to sons Charles and William Downing, and to three daughters, Lucy, Mary and Anne, at age of twenty-one years or day of marriage. The guardianship and custody of the persons of these three daughters entrusted to my dear daughter Frances Cotton. Bequests to daughter Cotton's children, Francis, John and Thomas, and to Elizabeth and Frances, the two daughters of my late daughter Pickering deceased ; also to nephew John Peters, niece Lucy Spicer, nephew Joshua Downing and Mr Edmond Woodroffe, one of my clerks in my office in the Exchequer. Hare, 139.
• * This Sir Henry Pickering was son and heir of Sir Henry Pickering of Whaddon, who was created a Baronet 2 January, 1660. He was of Barbados in 1695, and had two wives, Philadelphia, daughter of 'Sir George Downing', by whom he had two daughters, Mary and Anne (who both died without issue), and secondly, Grace, daughter of Constant Silvester, Esq. (See Reg. xxxvii. 385.) At his death, iu 1705, the title became extinct. (See Add. MS. 24493, British Museum.)— H. F. W.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Downing,_2nd_Baronet

Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet (c. 1656 – June 1711)[1] was a British civil servant. He was the son and heir of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, for whom Downing Street is named.[2]

His father worked as Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1660 until 1684 and was made a baronet of East Hatley, in 1663. In 1680, the younger George Downing joined his father as a Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer, holding that position until April 1689. His father died in July 1684, and the younger Downing inherited his father's baronetcy.[3]

On 12 July 1683, Downing married Lady Catharine Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, and his wife Lady Margaret Manners, daughter of the Earl of Rutland. They had one son before Lady Catharine's death in 1688, George Downing, who inherited his father's title upon the second baronet's death in June 1711. George married Mary Forester, daughter of Sir William Forester of Dothill, Shropshire, in whose home he was brought up following his mother's death.[4]

He also served as Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1686–87.[1]
References

Complete Baronetage: English, Irish and Scottish, 1649-1664. W. Pollard & Company, Limited. 1903. p. 279. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
Muskett, Joseph James (1900). Suffolk Manorial Families, Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees. W. Pollard. p. 99. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
Burke, John (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Colburn. p. 299. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3504. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
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