Dowding & Dowden Name Study & DNA Project

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message] and Chris Gilbert [send private message]

The Dowding Name Study is also registered with the Guild of One Name Studies.

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname DOWDING and DOWDEN.

This study will develop to document and investigate the origins of the various Dowding and Dowden families worldwide. One principal aim of this project is to see which of the various family lines that go back to the 16th Century and before are related.

This project is managed by Chris Gilbert who has Dowding ancestry from Somerset in England.

As of December 2023:

• I have gone through all the Dowding and Dowden profiles here on WikiTree that are open for editing and added a Dowding Name Study Category, and have linked up some Dowdings to early ancestors. I will look out for anyone adding any new profiles and categorise them.
• I have registered Dowding as a Surname Project with the Guild of One-Name Studies
• I have started a Dowding Y-DNA Project at Family Tree DNA. A Dowden Y-DNA project already exists on FTDNA and the intention is to merge the 2 projects.
• We have a Dowding and Dowden Surname Genealogy, and DNA Project Facebook Group

Until I add some structure to this Main Project Page, the Dowdings and Dowdens I am entering can be found via the sub categories links here. All the Dowdings on WikiTree are here. All the Dowden profiles are here.

Dowding / Dowden Y-DNA Project

See information here