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Richard DOWNER 1838-81 England, Nigeria
Posted by: Tim Neale Date: August 05, 2001 at 07:20:22
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Can anyone provide any additional information about the following DOWNER brothers?

William DOWNER born 1835?? lived in British Guiana [Guyana] in 1881; he had a wife named Plummie; children Mabel, Teddy, Walter.

Richard Clarke DOWNER born about 1838; married Anna Maria PEARSON 15 Mar 1881 in Melcombe Regis, Dorset.

Richard was a Master Mariner and worked as an ivory and palm oil trader in West Africa [Nigeria, Gabon] from 1869-76. He died 8 months after his marriage when his ship sank off the coast of Cornwall.

His son Ernest Walter Gordon Ross Clarke DOWNER [known as Billie] was born 8 Mar 1882 at Wolstanton, Stafford. Billie married Ellen ROSSER [my great aunt] 29 Jun 1910 at Llanfrechfa, Monmouth.


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