When Margaret Downer was born on 13 February 1728, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Richard Downer, was 27 and her mother, Mercy Haughton, was 23. She married Harris on 7 November 1751, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States.
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English (Isle of Wight, Hampshire, and Sussex): topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or down, from Middle English douner, a derivative of Middle English doun (Old English dūn) ‘hill’ + -er. It is synonymous with atte Doune (see Down ) and is a type of formation especially common in Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire.
English: in the north-West Midlands perhaps a variant of Downward with shortening of the final syllable to -er, a habitational name probably from Downwood (Herefordshire) and perhaps also Dunwood (Staffordshire), with -wood re-etymologized as -ward and occasionally shortened to -ard. See also Downard .
Irish (Tipperary): variant of Dooner 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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