For those of you who have County Longford family, the following information may be of interest to you: 1. NICHOLAS DOWDALL , Ballymulvey, Co. Longford - Prender's 1659 Census after lands confiscated because of involvement in Irish Confederacy of the 1640s 2. GEORGE DOWDALL, Gent., Ballymahon, Co. Longford - 1797 Irish Will listed in Vicars Index of Prerogavative of Wills 3. CATHERINE DOWDALL, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, daughter of Francis Dowdall; Obituary from Dennis Ahern's website for Ireland's Old Newspaper Obituraries 4. WILLIAM DOWDALL, Monkstown, County Meath, Member of Parliament for County Longford in the late 1500s or early 1600s. 5. http://members.webone.com.au/~nickred/newspaper/np_abst13.htm Taken from various Irish newspapers: J 1858 7 29 NPM DOWDALL Ansitasia July 28, at Kingstown, Arthur Charles CROKER Esq late HM 77th Regt, youngest son of the late Richard Hare CROKER, Lt-Col 18th Hussars, to Asistasia, only child of HENRY DOWDALL of Dominick street, solicitor and granddaughter of Henry DOWDALL Esq late of Ballymahon, co Longford FJ 1858 7 29 NPM DOWDALL Henry Esq July 28, at Kingstown, Arthur Charles CROKER Esq late HM 77th Regt, youngest son of the late Richard Hare CROKER, Lt-Col 18th Hussars, to Asistasia, only child of Henry DOWDALL, of Domoinick street, solicitor and granddaughter of Henry DOWDALL Esq late of Ballymahon, co Longford Beannachtai, Margaret (Máiread) Armagh, County Armagh January 7, 1845 Old Newspaper Collection PROVIDENTIAL RESCUE.--On Monday week, in the town of Ballymahon, the most providential occurrence took place, owing to the mercy of God, and the vigilance and activity of a police- man named John Thompson. The child of a respectable shop- keeper named Dowdall, was nearly run over by a cart, owing to the carelessness of the driver, when the policeman ran and rescued him from immediate destruction. This is but one of many instances of the usefulness and activity of Thompson. It was he who made prisoner of the pig-jobber for his abuse of her Majesty, on board the packet-boat, and for which our esteemed assistant-barrister sentenced him to six months' imprisonment and a heavy fine. Such meritorious conduct should be rewarded, as an encouragement to others.--Correspondent of the D.E. Packet. The following must be the shopkeeper mentioned in the above article: Index to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, 1848-1864 (County Longford 1854) Dowdall, Francis County Longford Parish - Shrule Location - Ballymahon Town - Main Street