Dowding & Dowden Y-DNA Tested Lines

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Surnames/tags: Dowding Dowden

Introduction

This is a page of the Dowding & Dowden Name Study & DNA Project and shows the family lines that have so far been Y-DNA tested.

Matching Lines

The following 3 participants with their respective lines share a common ancestor which BigY-700 DNA testing is suggesting could well be before the earliest Robert Dowding of Kington Magna below:

• 1. Robert Dowding died in 1597 in Kington Magna, Dorset
  • 2. Robert Dowding bef.1576-aft.1597
    • 3. Robert Dowding abt.1590-1653 Kington Magna
      • 4.. Robert Dowding abt.1616-1662 Kington Magna
        • 5. Nicholas Dowding bef.1648-1694 Kington Magna
          • 6. Robert Dowding 1676-1761 Kington Magna
            • 7. Nicholas Dowding 1717-1793 Kington Magna
              • 8. John Dowding 1747 Kington Magna - 1784 Gillingham, Dorset
                • 9. John B Dowding abt.1774 (location unknown) - 1828 Salisbury, Wiltshire
                  • 10. Reverend Townley Ward Dowding 1817 Wiltshire - 1881 Wiltshire
                    • 11. General Townley Ward Dowding 1847 Downton, Wiltshire - 1927 Singleton, Alverstoke, Hampshire
                      • 12. Townley Walter Dowding 1885 New Brompton, Kent - 1979 London
                        • 13. Private Dowding
                          • 14. Private Dowding Kit 1007288. Tested to BigY-700 and terminal Haplogroup R-FT126755 with one Private SNP Variant

• • • • • • • 7. Robert Dowding c1706 in Kington Magna
              • 8. William Dowding b.1746 in Kington Magna
                • 9. Robert Dowding b. 1779 Kington Magna d. 1854 Dorset
                  • 10. James Dowding b. 1832 Kington Magna d. 1898 Michigan, USA
                    • 11. Charles A Dowding b. Michigan 1866 d. Michigan 1941
                      • 12. Tba Dowding
                        • 13. Private
                          • 15. Private Kit 197018. (not a Dowding). Tested to BigY-700 and terminal Haplogroup R-FT126755 with no Private SNP Variants

• 1 Edward Dowden
  • 2. Christopher Dowding died in Ireland 1729
    • 3.Richard (Dowding) Dowden abt 1720 - 1785 Brandon, Cork, Ireland
      • 4. Richard Dowden abt.1756-1823 Cork
        • 5. William Dowden 1796 Brandon, Cork - 1883 Cork
          • 6. Richard Abraham Dowden 1829 Cork -1868 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
            • 7. William Dowden 1856-1915 Victoria
              • 8. Noel Dowden 1892-1942 Melbourne, Victoria
                • 9. Private Dowden
                  • 10. Private Dowden Kit 439325. Tested to BigY-700 and terminal Haplogroup R-FT126364 with 8 Private SNP Variants indicating a common ancestor with the above 2 participants a long way back in time and probably pre-1500.

Other Unique Lines

The following Dowden lines do not match the 2 above or each other:

Newfoundland Line

• 1. Thomas Dowden died after 1852 in ?Newfoundland
  • 2. George William Dowden 1838 Greenspond, Newfoundland - 1913 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    • 3. Tba
      • 4. Tba
        • 5. Private Dowden
          • 6. Private Dowden Kit 977536 Tested to Y-37 and in Haplogroup R-Z287

Pennsylvania Line

• 1. Joseph Dowden Pennsylvania
  • 2. Harvey Dowden 1835 Pennsylvania - 1919 Indiana
    • 3. James Harvey Dowden 1869 Pennsylvania - 1960 Indiana
      • 4.Private Dowden
        • 5. Private Dowden Kit MK85699 Tested to BigY-700 and in Haplogroup FTF40073 with 11 Private SNP Variants indicating no matches to anyone sharing a common ancestor within something like the last 1500 years