George Downing

Abt 1552 - 1611  (~ 59 years)

• Name	George Downing
  Birth	Abt 1552  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1556  [2, 3]
  Death	Between 17 Jan 1611 and 24 Mar 1611	Ipswich, Suffolk, England   [4, 5, 6]
  Burial	St. Lawrence, Ipswich, Suffolk, England   [4]
  Person ID	I15390	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	George Downing,   b. Abt 1525, of Beccles, Suffolk, England d. Between 20 Dec 1561 and 26 Jun 1564 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Mother	Cecily   d. Aft 1564
  Family ID	F9709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	(Unknown) Bellamy   d. Bef 1 Dec 1610
  Children	+ 1. Emanuel Downing,   b. Bef 12 Aug 1585   d. Aft Nov 1660, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age > 75 years) + 2. Rev. Joseph Downing,   b. Abt 1589, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. Aft 1645 (Age ~ 57 years)
  Family ID	F9708	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  B.A. from Queen's College, Cambridge, 1573-74. M.A. from Corpus Christi, 1577. Master of Ipswich Grammar School, 1589-1610.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1616] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "A Study of the Downing Family in England, with Connections in Early New England." The American Genealogist 74:161, 74:299, July 1999 and October 1999., "possibly in Beccles, co. Suffolk". [S2044] George E. McCracken, "Who Was Aaron Burr?" The American Genealogist 40:65, April 1964. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S1616] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "A Study of the Downing Family in England, with Connections in Early New England." The American Genealogist 74:161, 74:299, July 1999 and October 1999. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952., year and place only. [S2044] George E. McCracken, "Who Was Aaron Burr?" The American Genealogist 40:65, April 1964., year and place only.