Ellen Gittins (b. 1853)

[Erica McP]

Hi!
i have no idea if we are the same family i'm afraid, but i must admit we might be as my earliest Downing was a John Dunning/Downing around the same time - 1690's. (In the Midlands). They may be brothers or Cousins? I have very little info on the early Downings and what i have got is detailed on my family tree on Genes Reunited. Another lady who has a Downing connection gave me access to her tree on that and that's where i got alot of my info from. I would suggest you join it and get access to my tree if you would like. Enter DERRIK DOWNING (note spelling of derrik - my late Dad), in the search engine on there and you can ask me to access my tree thereon. I have also had LOTS of help here on Roots by posting queries. People are SO friendly and very helpful and they have helped me so much to find out information. I hope this helps some.
Kind regards, Erica.

[garstonite]

Hiya Erica....there`s only one marriage on freebmd and the same one on cheshirebmd for Thomas Banner 1837-1841 ..IN CHESHIRE.
Thomas Banner to Mary Clarke at St Elphins church Warrington,Cheshire in 1839 June qtr.....
freebmd.org.uk        Warrington 20 626
cheshirebmd.org.uk  WarringtonC25/1/266

hope this helps....you may be able to go further back on
www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb go to database and babtism and you may get Mary Clarkes if you are lucky....good luck....allan
JUST TO ADD...Warrington and Runcorn are next to each other...8.6 miles town hall to town hall...so although born and living in Runcorn,St Elphins church may have been the closest....allan