When Jesse Campbell Downey was born on 6 October 1787, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, Abraham Downey, was 32 and his mother, Mary Jane 'Polly' Campbell, was 27. He married Elizabeth Masters on 25 March 1812, in Warren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 26 September 1848, in Simpson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Old Zions Heritage Way Baptist Church Cemetery, Woodburn, Warren, Kentucky, United States.
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Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dúnadhaigh ‘descendant of Dúnadhach’, a personal name meaning ‘fortress-holder’ (from dún ‘fortress, fortified hill’).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh, or of Mac Giolla Dhomnaigh (see Maloney ).
Scottish: habitational name from the Scottish barony of Downie or Duny in the parish of Monikie in Angus (on Tayside), named from Gaelic dùn ‘hill’ + the locative suffix -ach.
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