Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Downey Sr was born about 1773, in Carlton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, David Downey I, was 22 and his mother, Margarett Pickerin, was 27. He married Hannah Little on 27 December 1798, in Kirby Sigston, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died before 1847, in Albion, Peel, Ontario, Canada.
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- Henry Downey, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Henry Downey, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Henry in entry for Wm Downy, "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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