I've lived in London most of my life and have only ever heard of the Sussex Downs - never Kent! Sussex is the County adjacent on the West side of Kent and includes Brighton, Worthing, Chichester along the coast. Sussex is now divided into East and West but even 50 years ago was just one County. Hazel Dakers Researching: NORDEN/NORTON, HEIMANN www.hazeldakers.co.uk On 25 April 2015 at 08:00, <south-africa-eastern-cape-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: The Downs (moira macdonald) > 2. Re: The Downs (rodg) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: moira macdonald <munyori@blueyonder.co.uk> > To: <rodg@tiscali.co.za>, <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> > Cc: > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:08:37 +0100 > 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 > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: rodg <rodg@tiscali.co.za> > To: moira macdonald <munyori@blueyonder.co.uk>, " > south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com" < > south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> > Cc: > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:08:02 +0000 > 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 contact the SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE list administrator, send an email > to > SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE mailing list, send an > email to SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > >