I am seeking information on the parents of my great-grandfather Hiram Downing born 1814 in N.H. according to census records. He died in Clayton Co., Iowa, in 1866. He went to Iowa about 1840. Family stories state that he was the only child of a second marriage of his father. His mother had been married twice before to a Kelf and a Welsh. I cannot find the name of Hiram's father. It is believed he lived in Manchester or Concord or near one of those places. Is anyone researching this Downing family? I am at a dead end. Rae Downing Sordahl