When Rosina Evelyn Downey was born in 1873, in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, James Burnell Downey, was 27 and her mother, Jane Elizabeth Rockett, was 24. She married Ernest Cornish in 1894, in Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Stoke Damerel, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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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