The Downings
Everyone this archive holds under the Downing name, how the name is written, where they are placed and which other families they married into. All of it is counted from the archive's own people, households and register; nothing is added to it.
The Downing name at a glance
| On these pages | 2 people, all of whom carry or were born to the name. The Downing line is one of the lines The People counts as a family. |
| How well known | Documented 1 Testimony 1 of the 2 who are not living. What the words mean → |
| Years named | 1803–1867 in the dates this archive prints for them |
| The name as written | Downing 2 |
| On the direct line | 2 ancestors on the archive's chart carry the name (below). |
| Places | Burgersdorp 1 · Colesberg 1 · Shoreditch 1 — the places that name them. Places → |
| In the register | 1,087 rows are filed under DOWNING in the register: 2 reconstructed by this archive and 1,085 from surname indexes. 8 rows link to a person page. The archive's own caution applies: a shared surname is not a relationship. The Register → |
On the direct line
Ancestors on the archive's chart who carry the name. The generation is the one the Spine uses, where the chart's starting point, Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen, is generation 2. Each note is the opening of what the archive says on that person's own page.
John Paul Downing
no dates held Testimony
Margaret's father ON THE TREE, AND IN NO DOCUMENT THIS ARCHIVE HAS READ. … The whole note →
Margaret Downing
23 Feb 1803, London – 25 Nov 1867, Burgersdorp Documented
THE DAY IS SETTLED AT THE 25th, AND IT WAS SETTLED BY A DOCUMENT ALREADY ON THE SHELF. Her own DEATH NOTICE, filed at Burgersdorp on 30 January 1868, answers question 7 — The day of the decease — “25th November 1867”, and question 4 gives her age as “64 years 9 months & 2 days”. … The whole note →
How this family connects to the others
2 households in the archive's records have a person of this page as a spouse. In 1 the other spouse is of another name: Kolbe (1). 1 household records only one parent.
| Household | The other family | Known from | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Augustus Kolbe & Margaret Downing Married 1819 — both were sixteen, and the Nautilus passenger roll of 1820 overstates both their ages by four years. The Kolbes → | Kolbe | a record read here | 10 |
| John Paul Downing Margaret's father ON THE TREE AND IN NO DOCUMENT. … | a family tree, not a document | 1 |
1 of these households rests on a family tree alone, not on a document; the table says so wherever it is the case.
Everyone on this page
2 people, oldest first by the first year the archive prints for them; those with no year come last. Dates are shown exactly as the archive prints them on the person's own page. Two people of one name are two rows.
2 people · everything is listed; the filters only narrow it
| Name | Born | Died | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Downing also written Margaret Georgina Elizabeth Downing | 23 Feb 1803, London | 25 Nov 1867, Burgersdorp | Documented |
| John Paul Downing | — | — | Testimony |
Nothing matches that.
Where the archive writes about them
The pages this archive itself links from these people's entries, with how many of them each one covers.
- The Documents 2 people
- The Kolbes 2 people
- The Women 1 person
How we know, and what this page does not say
Every person here carries one of the archive's marks: Documented a record was read; Inferred reasoned from records; Testimony told by the family; Open an open question. Method →
This page groups people by the name they carry and by the line the archive filed them on. A shared surname is not a relationship, as the Register says: where the archive has not connected two people of one name, nothing here connects them, and the households above are the only connections drawn.