27
Jun
2021
Manor House, Ratlinghope
Photographs show that the Downing family had a developed pattern of making visits to Ratlinghope in Shropshire from as early as 1899 right up to 1939. Continue reading →
Grandparents
24
Jun
2019
Noel and Molly Downing Wedding, 29 Jul 1919
The marriage of Noel Downing and Molly Evans held at St John the Baptist, Hagley took place on Tuesday 29 Jul 1919. It was a relatively hastily convened occasion in the immediate aftermath of the Great War. The engagement had been agreed on 24 Mar 1919 two days after Molly’s return from France. Continue reading →
24
Oct
2018
The Cottage, Upton, Near Andover, Hampshire
Noel and Molly Downing bought The Cottage, Upton in Oct 1945 for their retirement. It had six or seven bedrooms and for the next twenty nine years the house welcomed a number of guests – old friends and family that came to stay or just visit for the day. Noel died in Oct 1965 and Molly in Sep 1974. Continue reading →
10
Oct
2017
Emma Ida Palmer
Emma Ida Palmer was born on 23 Oct 1883 at 108 Ladbroke Grove Road, Notting Hill. Her parents were Henry Edwin Palmer, a commercial traveller and glove salesman and Elizabeth Jane (nee) Treleaven. Both came from around Plymouth. She was the youngest of three children and her older sister was born in Plymouth. The circumstances of her early life were probably quite tough but the fortune and addresses of her family steadily improved. Continue reading →
04
Oct
2017
William Henry Morgan
William Henry Morgan was born on 17 Aug 1880 in 52a Swaton Road, Bow. Continue reading →
15
Apr
2010
Molly Evans
Constance Mary Shaw-Hellier Evans, known as Molly, was born on 15 March 1890 in the Green House Tettenhall and baptized on 9 May 1890 in Tettenhall Parish Church. Her godparents were Edith Ogden, Mrs Walter Loveridge and Col Thomas B Shaw-Hellier. Continue reading →
09
Feb
2009
William Noel Downing
Noel Downing was born in Moorfields, Church Lane, Handsworth on 16 Dec 1888, the only son and youngest child of William Edmund Downing. The records relating to him on this site are divided into a number of separate pages with some examples of the range of archives and material that still exist. Continue reading →