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Offline Pinetree

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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 07 June 25 14:22 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jorose on Saturday 07 June 25 05:15 BST (UK)


Struggling to see his birth



According to an online tree he was born in India

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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 07 June 25 14:40 BST (UK) »
Hi, Yes, I looked this morning at the newspaper clip when he got married and he was from Bombay, and also I found he moved back here in 1928 with his family, father, mother and younger brother to live in Pall Mall London by boat.
It also said his father was a Mus. Director? Museum maybe??
So the two boys were probably born in India, don't know if there are birth records for there or where they might be??

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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 07 June 25 14:59 BST (UK) »
Mus. Director  more likely to be “music director”.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 07 June 25 15:08 BST (UK) »
Christopher Gilbert Dowden married Dorothy Wise in Bengal India in 1912. he was 22, and she was 16.

The second son Cyril Reginald Dowden was baptised there in 1916.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HGJV-P92M?lang=en
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 07 June 25 15:21 BST (UK) »
Christopher Gilbert Dowden born 1883 in Gloucestershire, son of a schoolmaster Frederick Christopher Dowden.
1901 census sees Christopher, age 19 in London, working as a piano tuner.

I think he had a second marriage in India to Mary Ann Webb in 1923.

He died in Bournemouth in 1943.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 07 June 25 15:27 BST (UK) »
Christopher Gilbert Dowden third marriage in 1933 Bournemouth to Kathleen Maud Bath.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 07 June 25 17:28 BST (UK) »
Strange how no birth for Allan Dowden?

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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 07 June 25 20:38 BST (UK) »

Hi,

There is a picture of Alan DOWDEN in this marriage announcement,


27th September 1940
The Bournemouth Times


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Re: Unknown Father
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 07 June 25 20:50 BST (UK) »

I'm not sure which website you are viewing newspapers from but there is an article about an appeal which names your grandmother, I'm not sure if you want me to post it here. I have found at FindMyPast and the British Newspaper Archive search for DOWDEN, 16th January 1937, Hampshire Telegraph.

Let me know if you want me to post it.

Daisy
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