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RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Erin Webb Ellis [artworks@san.rr.com] wrote T.Mason on 25Sep2001 identifying Samuel's wife and children. She indicated Samuel was a tanner and owned quite a bit of land in Harford/Baltimore.
Abstract from Ben Franklin's "PA Gazette" 1744, Page 450; "The following privateers have sailed or will soon sail from Phila., the Wilmington, the George, the Tartan and Le Trembleus (28 June). Castolo, John, servant, age c. 22 - runaway from Samuel Webb, tanner, living in Baltimore Co.
GEDCOM from Sue Hodnett, Caldwell, ID in Aug1998 to T. Mason; "The will of one Aquilla Paca left a bequest to Priscilla Webb, daughter of William, and her sister, Margaret, wife of Richard Downing. Are the Pacas related to the Webbs, and thus to the Downings? I find them intertwined in records such as these, and in other records dealing with Norrises, I also find them listed, though not specifically related. The 1787 Harford County will of Samuel Webb mentions Constant Priscilla Webb,"alias Downing," and Margaret Webb, "alias Downing"."
RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Erin Webb Ellis [artworks@san.rr.com] wrote T.Mason on 25Sep2001 indicates surname of "Wyer" on marriage from Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810.
RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Erin Webb Ellis [artworks@san.rr.com] wrote T.Mason on 25Sep2001 states name comes from Family Archive #224 Marriage Index Maryland 1655-1850.
Marquis (Marcus) Richardson DOWNING
DEATH: [HYPERLINK http://local.lexpublib.org/detail.cfm?counter=60402 ]
Subject Heading: DOWNING, MARCUS
Source: Daily Press.
Date: March 29, 1881
Location: p. 1 col. 4.
Abstract: Marcus Downing died, age 69, at home on Harrodsburg Pike.BURIAL: Disposition # 7623. Section F, Lot 34. Part S.
RESEARCHER: Information sent to T.Mason on 3 Oct 2003 by Bradley Canon [poll40@uky.edu]. "He was a horse dealer on E. Main St. according to the 1838 city directory. He and Ann were members of the South Elkhorn Christian Church. He was living on Harrodsburg Rd., three and a half miles from town, when he died."
Marriage Notes for Marquis (Marcus) Richardson Downing and Ann Eliza ALLEN-6021
MARRIAGE: [HYPERLINK http://local.lexpublib.org/detail.cfm?counter=60410
Subject Heading: DOWNING, MARCUS
Source: Observer and Reporter.
Date: June 8, 1836
Location: p. 1 col. 5.
Abstract: On 1st Marcus Downing weds Ann Eliza Allen
RESEARCHER-CONFLICT: Information sent to T.Mason on 3 Oct 2003 by Bradley Canon [poll40@uky.edu]. "This birth date is obviously impossible if Lydia's is correct. She may have been born in 1840, or Lydia in 1838."
Death date is from microfiche abstracts of Kentucky death certificates, 1911-1995 (LexLib), which gives her age as 79. No relatives are named, so in this and all other such citations, the death date is probable rather than certain.
BURIAL: Disposition # 241
Possible birth was 10 Mar 1854 and death was 4 Mar 1898.
GEDCOM from Sue Hodnett, Caldwell, ID in Aug1998 to T. Mason; NOTES: He was a Scotchman.
RESEARCHER: Bradley Cannon [poll40@uky.edu] sent information to T.Mason on 3 Oct 2003. "Information on the children is from The Downing Family of England, Maryland and Virginia. Brand's death from cholera in 1833 and his father's death date come from The Book of Downing by Harold Downing; p. 12. It also reports that the father immigrated from Scotland around 1802 and with John W. Hunt owned Kentucky's first hemp factory in Lexington. He became one of Lexington's wealthier citizens. It also reports that he married Elizabeth Hay in Scotland but that she died there; it does not give the name of his second wife who would be the mother of the three children. Miller lists Hay as the mother of the children. (BOD gives more information about him, but p. 11 is too faded to read clearly.)"
Marriage Notes for John B. Brand Jr and Priscilla Webb DOWNING-331
MARRIAGE: Lexington Public Library; [HYPERLINK http://local.lexpublib.org/detail.cfm?counter=61312:
Subject Heading: BRAND, JOHN JR.
Source: Kentucky Reporter.
Date: November 26, 1828
Location: p. 2 col. 2
Abstract: On 19th John Brand Jr. of Lexington weds Priscilla W. Downing of County.
OBITUARY: In file of Joseph Lee Downing: On Monday last, at the residence of her brother-in-law, Richard Higgins Jr. Esq. near Helena, Arkansas, Miss MARY DOWNING BRAND, daughter of the late John Brand Jr. Esq, of this county, aged 21. The remains are on their way to Kentucky. ... She had gone with her widowed mother, a few weeks ago, on a visit to her sister in Arkansas, and full of hope, bouyancy of spirit and bright anticipations, doubtless was looking forward with anxious solicitude to the time when she should again be reunited with the extended and devoted circle of relatives and friends which she had left in the place of her nativity... .
Was a Baptist preacher who lived on Curds Road.
Appears in the 1850 Fayette County Census with wife Henrietta, and children Dudley, Elizabeth, MaryAnn, Richard, Elijah, and 58 year old Elizabeth Downing.
Kathryn Salyers records give children as Downing, James, Eliz. Lee, Molly Ann, Elijah Wisdom, Dudley M., and Richard D. Craig.
DESCENDANTS: [HYPERLINK http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wmadavis&id=I10622 ]
BURIAL: Disposition # 12252
DEATH: Lexington Press, Jan. 25, 1876, p. 1.
Ref: Cemetery Record, Machpelah Cemetery Mt. Sterling, Ky. Lists death date and her age as 3.
DEATH: [HYPERLINK http://local.lexpublib.org/detail.cfm?counter=60465 ]
Subject Heading: DOWNING, RICHARD T.
Source: Herald.
Date: April 4, 1908
Location: p. 10 col. 5.
Abstract: Richard T. Downing dies, age 74, ex-ConfederateBURIAL: Disposition # 16721. Section N. Lot 4.
Richard owned 125 acres in the South Elkhorn Creek area where he bred and raised carriage horses until the demand declined after the Civil War and then switched to trotters. The couple belonged to the South Elkhorn Christian Church.
1860 United States Federal Census - Kentucky - Fayette - District 2
Richard Downing 36 Farmer
Kate 39
Joseph Downing 75 Retired
William Dismukis 17 Farm hand
It is noteworthy that the next farm is owned by Samuel Downing, a second cousin to Richard and Samuel, Margaret and 6 children are listed.
MARRIAGES: Information from her grandfather's will.
MARRIAGES: Information from her grandfather's will.