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Sally
09-10-09, 18:16
I really must think about getting the world wide thing for myself, because it is needed more and more these days.
Anyway, please could someone, when they have time, check the passenger lists to America for Nicholas Downing born 1820 in Durham, Iron Founder. It would have been between 1871 and 1891.......sorry that I cannot be more specific, but he is nowhere to be found in this country in 1881 and his wife was a widow in 1891; also I can find no trace of his death in this country. I am therefore hoping that he went over to Philadelphia perhaps, to visit his sisters and brother and maybe to check out the living conditions there, but died somewhere along the way.
Joan of Archives
09-10-09, 18:26
Evening Sally! ;)

There is one on the Canadian passenger lists but he arrived there in 1919 so unless he was very old......:d
Joan of Archives
09-10-09, 18:32
He wasn't from Chester-le-Street was he?? There is a death in 1872 for a Nicholas DOWNEY :rolleyes:

Here's the details:
Nicholas Downey
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1820
Year of Registration: 1872
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 52
District: Chester Le Street
County: Durham
Volume: 10a
Page: 306
Joan of Archives
09-10-09, 18:36
He wasn't from Chester-le-Street was he?? There is a death in 1872 for a Nicholas DOWNEY :rolleyes:

Scrap that as he seems to be the one living with George & Phebe on the 1841 !! :d
Joan of Archives
09-10-09, 18:38
Although they look like they are Downings!! Could it be that he was mistranscribed on the death index? The one I found was a typed record. Is it worth contacting the Registry Office for that one??? :confused:
Sally
09-10-09, 18:39
oh very funny Joanie!!!

Yes he was from Chester le Street originally, but moved to Tudhoe which isn't very far away. I have him in 1871, but in 1881 his wife still says that she is his wife and does not declare herself a widow until 1891.

The only way to find out if that was him is by sending off for the cert I suppose, so will check it out.

Thanks Joanie
Sally
Joan of Archives
09-10-09, 18:40
And there is no other Nicholas Downey that is around on any other census that would fit that death except yours :rolleyes:
Joan of Archives
09-10-09, 18:46
oh very funny Joanie!!!

Yes he was from Chester le Street originally, but moved to Tudhoe which isn't very far away. I have him in 1871, but in 1881 his wife still says that she is his wife and does not declare herself a widow until 1891.

The only way to find out if that was him is by sending off for the cert I suppose, so will check it out.

Thanks Joanie
Sally

Was she Mary Downing? She was a widow on the 1881 census??

: RG11; Piece: 4897; Folio: 103; Page: 9; Line: ; GSU roll: 1342178.
Sally
09-10-09, 18:54
blame it on my advancing years, or stress or something.......yes, she was a widow in 1881 but not in 1871.

It does seem that your finding of a Nicholas Downey could be the key, and I will follow it up.

thank you Joanie
Joan of Archives
09-10-09, 18:55
No probs Miss Marple :d