Andrew Downey1

#7939, (circa 1796 - )
Father*John Downey2 (c 1770 - )
Mother*Noory Doregan2 (c 1770 - )

Family

Rosannah Carroll b. c 1797
Child 1.Catherine Downey+9 (c 1831 - )
Probably brothers, but no source found.3 
Birth*circa 1796He was born circa 1796 at IrelandG; (from 1861 and 1871 censuses; 1851 has b. Ireland.)4,5,1 
Marriage*3 November 1828He married Rosannah Carroll, daughter of ____ Carroll, on 3 November 1828 at St-Thomas Parish, Memramcook, Dorchester Par., Westmorland Co., New BrunswickG; (her 2nd.)6 
1851He and Rosannah Carroll appeared on the census of 1851 at Moncton, Westmorland Co., New BrunswickG.7 
1861He appeared on the census of 1861 at Moncton, Westmorland Co., New BrunswickG; same house John and Deborah Kennedy.5 
1861He appeared on the census of 1861 in the household of John Thomas Kennedy and Deborah Lynch at Moncton, Westmorland Co., New BrunswickG, step father, age 60, farmer, b. Ireland; (neis. Susan Hannigan (58); James and Ellen Walsh; Patrick and Jane Hennessey.)5 
1871He appeared on the census of 1871 in the household of John Thomas Kennedy and Deborah Lynch at Moncton Par., Westmorland Co., New BrunswickG, sge 75, b. Ireland, farmer, Irish, R.C., widower [Lined throughh].8 

Citations

  1. [S83] 1851 Canada Census (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). Andrew (55), farmer, Irish, b. NB; Rosannah (54), Irish, entered Colony 1825; Catherine (20); same house as John and Deborah Kennedy.
  2. [S101] Gabriel Drouin, compiler, Drouin Collection: St-Thomas, Memramcook, Cte Westmorland, 1845-1899 (Montreal, Quebec: Institut Généalogique Drouin), Marr. rec. of Andrew Downing of Peticoudiac, son of John Downing and Noory Doregan of Co. Cork Ireland, 1828, q.v.
  3. [S520] VWH.
  4. [S84] 1871 Canada Census.
  5. [S80] 1861 New Brunswick Province Census. John Thomas (33), b. NB, farmer prop.; Deborah (33), b. NB; Andrew Downey (60), step father, b. Ireland; Rozanna (60), mother, b. Ireland.
  6. [S101] Gabriel Drouin, Drouin: St-Thomas, Memramcook, 1845-1899, Vol. 1 Sep 1828 - 11 Jan 1841, p. 9, M-19. Andrew Downing of Peticoudiac, son of John Downing and Noory Doregan of Co. Cork Ireland, and Rosannah Cummins [sic], also of Peticoudiac, wid. of Thomas Kennedy, marr. 3 Nov 1828 b. Frd. Gauvreau, assistant priest; witn. François Sonier and Placide Leblanc.
  7. [S83] 1851 Canada Census (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). Andrew (55), farmer, b. NB; Rosannah (54), farmer, entered Colony 1825; Catherine (20), dau., farmer, b. NB. [additional family] John Kenady (23), b. NB, Irish, farmer; Deborah (23), b. NB, Irish, farmer; Thomas, age 1 month. Listed as "family" in the Rooney "House."
  8. [S84] 1871 Canada Census. John Canada (43), farmer; Deborah (43); both b. NB, Irish, R.C.
  9. [S83] 1851 Canada Census (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). Catherine Downey (20), dau., farmer, b. NB. Surname indicates that Andrew was her father (or poss. stepfather).