William Downey1

#32713, (circa 1848 - )
Father*John Downey1 (c 1803 - )
Mother*___2 Savage1,2 (s 1807 - )
Birth*circa 1848He was born circa 1848 at New BrunswickG.1 
1851He appeared on the census of 1851 in the household of John Downey and Mary Anne Dalton, age 3, b. NB; (neis. Daniel and Bridget Savage; Jeremiah and Mary Leary.)3 

Citations

  1. [S83] 1851 Canada Census (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia).
  2. [S79] Rev. Edward Savage, The Story of Melrose, Westmorland County (copy from Université Saint Joseph Archives, Moncton), transcription online http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbwestmo/history.htm, p. 17: "Splane, Downey, Murphy, and James Stack married four sisters of Daniel Savage, whose father did not come to America. Daniel himself took up a farm at the extreme western end of the Settlement. He married Bridget Blanch. His family were: Daniel, William, Charles, John, Maurice, Mary Houlihan, Julia Delahunt, Margaret, Catherine, and Elizabeth Chapman." James Stack marr. Eleanor Savage.
  3. [S83] 1851 Canada Census (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). John (42), farmer, Irish descent, entered Colony Jun 1834; Mary (29), "ditto."