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From: Ginny <>
Subject: Re: [PA-QUAKERS] Quaker (from England ?) James Downey
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:25:28 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20051204160901.56329.qmail@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Thanks, David, for this information. Age wise the James b.1721 could have
been father to our James. If anyone else has suggestions about how to
proceed, I would appreciate their advice. It would perhaps be some help to
know if this James was an iron worker as our James was and most of his
children.
Researchers with far more experience than I have are stymied so perhaps I
should give up on this.
on 12/4/05 8:09 AM, David Holland at wrote:
> The following family is listed in the Falls (PA)
> Monthly Meeting:
>
> James & Hannah Downey
> CH: Sarah b. 1-31-1713
> Mary b. 4-20-1721
> Hannah b. 12-25-1717
> James b. 4-20-1721
>
> 1711,6,1: Falls MM received on certificate from
> "Friends in Ireland"
> 1712,4,12: James Downey m. Hannah Ellott, dau. of Wm.,
> Bucks Co., at Falls Meeting House.
> 1713,3,26: Hannah [Ellot], widow, m. Samuel Combs at
> Falls MH
> 1735,8,28: Sarah Downey m. Thomas Loramar at Falls MH
> 1737,8,25: Mary Downey m. Samuel Mead at Falls MH
> 1758,3,1: James Jr disowned, disunity
>
> If this is the line in PA that you are trying to
> connect to, the fact that James, Jr. was disowned will
> make it tougher to prove. As he would be 50 years old
> at the time of your Thomas' birth, he is probably not
> Thomas father. If he is an ancestor, there is likely
> to be another generation in between, but if James III
> was born outside the Quaker community, his birth may
> not be recorded anywhere.
>
> --- Ginny <> wrote:
>
>> Descendants of James Downey, whose first recorded
>> official appearance was
>> known to us was at the birth of his son Thomas in
>> 1771 at Litchfield
>> Connecticut was possibly connected with a Quaker
>> family in Pennsylvania.
>> I have been told here seems to have been a James
>> Downey who came from
>> England and settled in that area. I believe the
>> last mentioned James might
>> possibly have been a father of grandfather or
>> father. He appears to have
>> been a Baptist by the time he appears on CT. Does
>> anyone have knowledge of
>> this Quaker James? Thank you.
>> Ginny Rinehart
>>
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