Hi Moira, Thanks for your reply. I just thought there may have been a connection as the family I met at that time were wholly English speaking and had farmed that area for years. But still your inf is very interesting Regards Rod g Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: "moira macdonald" <munyori@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:08:37 To: <rodg@tiscali.co.za>; <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] The Downs Hi Rod, from an unseasonably warm England. You may need to supply more context to your request The Downs, Kent is actually a very important historic area of sea off the Kent coast. See this Wikipedia explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Downs There is indeed a Thomas FRANCIS, born 1820, in the 1851 census as a Royal Marine stationed at Woolwich, Greenwich, handy for accessing any ship setting sail for The Downs. Not sure this is helpful to you really. Sorry. Moira From: rodg Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 6:17 PM To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com ; Paul TT Subject: [ZA-EC] The Downs Good evening all from a slowly cooling Cape Town, Thomas FRANCIS, 1820, came from The Downs. Kent. Years ago I camped on Mr BARAGWANITH,s farm called The Downs. Could there be a link there somewhere? Regards Rod g Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

The "Downs" in Limpopo (west of Tzaneen) is now incorporated in the Lekgalameetse Provincial Park. Quite remote. The whole area was settled by British Soldiers after WW1 & more than likely named after the Downs in UK. A lot of the farms in the area had British names. Members of the Baragwaneth family still lived there until about 10 years ago. Alan C -----Original Message----- From: rodg via Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 6:08 PM To: moira macdonald ; south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] The Downs Hi Moira, Thanks for your reply. I just thought there may have been a connection as the family I met at that time were wholly English speaking and had farmed that area for years. But still your inf is very interesting Regards Rod g Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: "moira macdonald" <munyori@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:08:37 To: <rodg@tiscali.co.za>; <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] The Downs Hi Rod, from an unseasonably warm England. You may need to supply more context to your request The Downs, Kent is actually a very important historic area of sea off the Kent coast. See this Wikipedia explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Downs There is indeed a Thomas FRANCIS, born 1820, in the 1851 census as a Royal Marine stationed at Woolwich, Greenwich, handy for accessing any ship setting sail for The Downs. Not sure this is helpful to you really. Sorry. Moira From: rodg Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 6:17 PM To: south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com ; Paul TT Subject: [ZA-EC] The Downs Good evening all from a slowly cooling Cape Town, Thomas FRANCIS, 1820, came from The Downs. Kent. Years ago I camped on Mr BARAGWANITH,s farm called The Downs. Could there be a link there somewhere? Regards Rod g Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com