Person:Robert Downs (2)
Robert Downs
b.Est 1260 probably Cheshire, England
 
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Robert DownsEst 1260 -
Spouse and Children
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  1. Maude DownsEst 1295 - 1378
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Robert DownsEst 1260 -
  1. Edmund Dounes
  2. William de Downes
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Facts and Events
Name Robert Downs
Alt Name[2] Robert Downes
Alt Name Robert De Downes
Gender Male
Birth[4] Est 1260 probably Cheshire, England
Marriage to Margery Fitton
Marriage to Unknown
Property[3] 1288 lord of Dounes and Taxal
Residence[2] Chorley juxta Werford
Other[3] 1288 a forrester of the forest of Macclesfield
References
  1.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley--Being an Account of His Career, His Ancestry, the Ancestry of His Two Wives, and His Relatives in England and New England, together with a Genealogy of His Descendants through the Seventh American Generation. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1933)
    page 7.

    'Robert le Grosvenor, of Rudheath, afterwards of Hulme, ... m. before 1323, Emma, dau. and coheir of William de Modburlegh, by his wife Maud, dau. and heir of Robert Downes ...'

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
    Volume 1, page 416.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ormerod, George; William Smith; William Webb; and Peter Leycester. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819 (London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley))
    Volume 3, page 379.
  4. ↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated birth year of his daughter.
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