In a message dated 5/1/2005 12:10:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, MHPDECO@aol.com writes: references to Downings/Dowings/Downeys from that area?? In this book of Fayette Co, PA, the closest entries to above are DOWNERs. I was looking for DOWNARD, my self, as that was one of the female ancestors, (again,) who married a FRAME. Close to DOWNER, but even the given names are different. This family was founded here by Jacob DOWNER and his wife Elizabeth STARNER who came from Germany in 1778, stopping first in Lancaster Co, then to Fayette Co. Madora