William
John
Downing
Born in Bedford, Bedford, Virginia
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Mary Emma (Downing) Yocum
Died
at age 54
in Russell Parish, Bedford, Virginia, United States
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Biography
William was born on 18 October 1723 in Bedford, Bedford, Virginia, United States. [1]
His parents were Thomas Downing who married Thomazine (Downing) Beer on 10 April 1715 in Silverton, Devon, England. He was their only child.
William married on an unknown date in of VA.[1]
In 1759 William (age about 35) was living in St.Ephen Parish, Northumberland County, VA.[2]
Research Notes
Facts with no date
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Marriage: Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Date: 2004,
Page: Source number: 7161.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 28. - ↑ Residence: Author: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Title: Virginia Census, 1607-1890 Date: 1999.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~0.78%
Ronald Ruble
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~0.78%
Ken Yocum :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch wv1424670 [compare], Ancestry member kenycm
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~0.78%
John McDaniel :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JohnMcDanielSr
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~0.39%
Trent Ruble :
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~0.39%
Bruce (Worley) Danner :
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~0.39%
Gregory Biehl :
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~0.39%
Mike Crain :
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~0.39%
Andrew Robertson :
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~0.39%
Terry Lake :
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~0.39%
Jamie McDaniel :
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~0.39%
Kimberly (Diss) Morgan :
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Dave Rutherford
Gregory Biehl
Yes from my research, this John William Dowing was not the son of Thomas Downing of Pennsylvania. There's quite a bit of known history on Thomas Downing. The town of Milltown was renamed in his honor to Downingtown in 1812. There is an alternative birthday of 1712 for John William, but I have not run across any other information that might suggest he was the son of Thomas. The biggest disparity is that John William was from Virginia.
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by Gregory Biehl
Caroline (Williams) Williston
I don't believe this William John Downing is the son of Thomas Downing and Thomazine (Beer) Downing. Thomas and Thomazine did have a son named William born 18 months before this William, but he was born in Chester County, PA, as were all their children except the first two who were born in England. William's first wife was named Ellen John and his second named Margaret Halliday Miller. I can find no evidence that Thomas and Thomazine ever visited Virginia (and that would have been a long and noteworthy trek to make from Chester County, Pennsylvania in the early 1720s). I'll put my sources in for the Chester County William Downing so the evidence will be freely available, but this William John Downing doesn't seem to be the son of Thomas and Thomazine.
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by Caroline (Williams) Williston
Dave Rutherford
Downing-1243 and Downing-1228 appear to represent the same person because: Came across this apparent match while entering my Cornish Downing's.
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by Dave Rutherford
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