On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:21:01 -0800, Sherry Kaseberg wrote: >Lionville, PA is mentioned in my notes on the family of Joseph Downing and his >wife Mary Trimble who had a farm in the valley E of Downington in Chester Co PA. >This town is mentioned as the residence of their daughter Jane who married John >Gordon ca 1785. Your Downings would not be in her generation, of course, but there >were a lot of Downings in Chester County...perhaps yours. My notes are too early >to be of help. Sherry My cousin told me that a mutual distant cousin said our Downings are originally from Downington PA. All I know is that William P. Downing, my gggrandfather, was born in PA, moved to Ohio, married Isabella Criswell Roberson in 1842 in Trumbull County OH, and died about 1879, if memory serves. Their son, William M. Downing, and Minnie Bell McCreery, were my maternal grandmother's parents. I think, but don't know for sure, that the mutual distant cousin was descended from H. S. Downing. Nancy Pridgen