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TREE ONE
DOWNS (THOMAS WILLIAM DOWNS & JOYCE AMELIA CAVEY)
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) T W Downs (1937- ) married Joyce Amelia Cavey (1939- ) (j) P Downs ( - ) married W Littin ( - ) (k) A Downs ( - ) (k) K Downs ( - ) (k) D Downs ( - ) (j) S Downs ( - ) (j) R Downs ( - ) (j) M Downs ( - ) married G Northcoott ( - )
HELP ... Can anyone please tell me who Thomas William Downs parents / grandparents were? Email: jowarby@bigpond.net.au
SEE DOWNS TREE TWO BELOW
TREE TWO
DOWNS (GEORGE WILLIAM DOWNS & ANNIE ELIZABETH DANDERSON)
(a) (b) (c) (d) William Downs ( - ) married Elizabeth Unknown ( - ) (e) Aaron Downes (1832-1899) UK-NZ married abt 1852 (1) Mary Ann Sharp (abt.1829-1883) UK-NZ married abt 1894 (2) Elizabeth Alice Reed ( - ) UK-NZ (Children from Aaron and Mary's marriage) (f) George William Downs (1857-1937) married 1899 Annie Evelyn Danderson (1869-1952) (g) George Wilfred Downs (1894-1983) married Eunice Amelia Pittams (1907-1980) (h) Maisie Violet Downs ( -1931) (h) Maurice Wilfred Downs ( -1931) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Taylor ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Wicksteed ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Ward ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unkown Hamilton ( - ) (i) Grant Jason Downs (1966-1975) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Dimes ( - ) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Douglas ( - ) (i) Cameron Scott Downs (1976-1994) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Bunn ( - ) (g) Norman Downs ( - ) married Florence Unknown ( - ) (g) Leafus Downs (1899-1980) married George Herbert Kemp ( - ) (g) Herbert Lewis Downs ( 1984) married Laurie Unknown ( -1980) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Crocket ( - ) (g) Alfred Lester Downs (1906-1971) married Hilda Unknown (1909-1986) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Royce Lahood (1927-1996) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Simpson ( - ) (g) Alton Nelson Downs (1907-1996) married Unknown Widmer ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Campbell ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Allen ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Bigham ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Fewtrell ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Bird ( - ) (g) Kathleen Alice Downs (1911-1991) married Frederick Ernest Vickers ( -1969) (g) Una Thelma Eileen Downs (1915-1999) married Trevor Julian (1917-1986) (f) Charles Downs (1860-1939) married 1889 Ellen Danderson (1865-1942) (g) Frederick William Downs (1890-1954) married (1) Mabel Marshall ( - ) married 1927 (2) Muriel Edith Cox (1907- ) Cox Tree Two (Children from Frederick and Mabel's marriage) (h) Alfred Charles Downs (1914-1989) married Unknown Christopher ( - ) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Ruddell ( - ) (Children from Frederick and Muriel's marriage) (h) Leslie Frederick Downs (1928-1937) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married unknown Tito ( - ) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married (1) Unknown Waters ( - ) (2) Unknown Dunne ( - ) (3) Unknown Paroz ( - ) (Children from Unknown Downs and Unknown Dunne marriage) (i) Danielle Petine Downs (1983-1984) (h) Trevor Henry Downs (1931-1976) married Unknown Richards ( - ) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married (1) Unknown Epiha ( - ) (2) Unknown ( - ) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Grinstead ( - ) (j) Michael Trevor Grinstead (1978-1996) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Gullery ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Bardsley ( - ) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Loader ( - ) (i) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Smith ( - ) (h) Linda Muriel Downs (1941-1998) married (1) Unknown Trail ( - ) (2) Unknown Herod ( - ) (g) Charles Henry Downs (abt.1894/97?-1917/20?) (g) John (Jack) Downs (abt.1899-1921) (g) Coral Eileen Downs ( -1963) married Arthur Evans ( - ) (f) William Downs (1863-1919) married 1885 Elizabeth Ryland (abt.1865-1937) (g) Mary Ann Downs (1887-1961) married John Henry Johnston ( -1968) (g) Elizabeth Lucy (May) Downs (1889- ) married John Farr ( - ) (g) George Albert Aaron (Bert) Downs (1891-1986) married 1914 (1) Edith Mary Roots (1895-1935) (2) Unknown Milne ( - ) (Children from George and Edith's marriage) (h) Dora Downs (1915-1935) (h) Aubrey Downs (1918-1939) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Abbott ( - ) (h) Ronald Downs (1922-1998) married Unknown Mason ( - ) (h) Daphne Downs (1930-1967) married Unknown Cox ( - ) (h) Male Downs ( - ) married Female Mason ( - ) (i) Male Downs ( - ) married Female Wyatt ( - ) (Children from George and Unknown Milne's marriage) (h) Male Downs ( - ) married Female Meier ( - ) (i) Female Downs ( - ) married Male Phillips ( - ) (h) Female Downs ( - ) married (1) Male Latham ( - ) (2) Male Kidd ( - ) (g) Jessie Allen (Nellie?) Downs (1894-1951) married William J. Peapell (1892-1961) (g) William (Arthur) Zealand Downs (1898- ) married Freda Prescott ( - ) (g) Charles Edward (Eddie) Downs (1900- ) married Sarah Sayring ( -1998) (h) Beverley Downs ( -1936) (g) Fanny Dorothy Downs (1902-1987) married (1) Riginald Green ( - ) (2) Ronald Putt ( - ) (g) Robert Rayney Downs (1904-1968) married Muriel Emmaline Curtis ( - ) (g) Daisy Florence Downs (1906-1906) died young (g) Eric Oscar Downs (1908-1979) married Unknown Speck ( - ) (g) Laurence Hector Downs (1912-1992) married 1937 Eileen Myra Hodder (1914-1998) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Taylor ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown Wooller ( - ) (h) Unknown Downs ( - ) married Unknown McLeod ( - ) (f) Elizabeth Downs (1870-1947) married David Melville Anderson (abt.1866-1945)
FAMILY HISTORY Aaron and Mary Ann Downes (nee Sharp) arrived in New Zealnd on the 'Alma' in 1857. Aarons surname was spelt with an 'e' instead of Downs it was spelt Downes. He was born in Oxford, Kent to parents William and Elizabeth Downs. Aaron's occupation in 1857 was given (Alma passenger list) as General Labourer and he was said to be aged 25. Aaron brought land in Springvale, Wanganui for farming and market gardening. Following Mary's death in 1883 Aaron returned to England and remarried to Elizabeth Alice Reed. He returned to New Zealand with his new bride. At the time of the Maori land wars Aaron and Mary were at the Rutland Stockade. Frederick William Downs (1890-1954) was born in Hawera on 11th April 1890 and died in Wanganui on 19th December 1954. he is buried at Aromoho, Wanganui. Frederick married Muriel Edith Cox on 24th August 1927 at St John's Church in Wanganui . Frederick, a railway engineer, was transfered to Taihape in 1937. After leaving the employ of the railway he worked in the boiler house of the Wanganui Hospital as an engineer and later transfered to the Jubilee Home. Frederick retired permanently after having a leg amputated. | ||||||||||||||||||||