Person:Elizabeth Downing (4)

The parents of Isabel Downing are *Unknown* her father was certainly *not* Sir George Downing, 2nd Baronet, of East Hatley. That family has been studied in depth and he had only one children:

1. Sir George Downing, 3rd Bt

== Note he definitely did not have a daughter named Isabel who came to Maryland ==^{[2][3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Gen chart - Keith, John Rufus, Record Type: Genealogical chart, Subject: John Rufus Keith
   created for claim to the Thomas Hall and Thomas Edwards estates in New York City, New York.

   This claim was investigated by the FBI and is part of a known scam and should not be relied upon for genealogical purposes.

2. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Hartford 1952; rpt. Baltimore 1978) Link to Jacobus Hale, House 514-21
3. ↑ The American Genealogist 36:68-73
4. ↑ The Essex Genealogist 30:90-93, 125-32, 171-76
5. ↑ Hyde, Myrtle Stevens, “A Study of the Downing Family in England, with Connections in Early New England”, in The American Genealogist. (D.L. Jacobus, 1999) 74:161-74, 299-308, 76:137
6. ↑ From Susan Hardman Moore, Abandoning America: Life-stories from early New England (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: The Boydell Press, 2013) 90-95
7. ↑ The Complete Baronetage, vol 3, p. 279 link to source George Downing married Catherine Cecil 12 July 1683. Catherine (Cecil) Downing died 13 August 1688; George Downing did not re-marry; is recorded with 1 son as heir
8. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Volume 4; John Burke; Colburn, 1838 - Great Britain p.299
9. ↑ Emanuel Downing, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
10. ↑ A history of Downing College which George Downing, 3rd Baronet financed is listed only child on page 19, and on page 37 citing bequests [link to source https://archive.org/details/downingcollege00stevrich]