John F Downing was born in 1894. He married Cecilia M Weber in May 1956, in East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States. He died in 1963, in Essex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States.
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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