When Elizabeth Downing was born about 1809, in Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Phillip Downing, was 28 and her mother, Sarah, was 30. She had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with John Clarke. She died in 1859, at the age of 51.
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Irish (Cork and Kerry): sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinnín (see Dineen ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dun(n)ing, Douning (Old English Dunning, a derivative of Old English Dunna (see Dunn ).
English (Devon): topographic name for someone who lived on the hill, an -ing derivative of Middle English doun ‘hill’, equivalent to Downer . This formation is characteristic of Devon (compare Brooking ).
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