Message: "The Surname Downer" - Behind the Name

The Surname Downer

by Andrew (AndrewJKD)

1/30/2006, 2:10 PM

Does anyone have any info on the surname Downer? Thanks in advance!

Andrew
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This message was edited 3/20/2006, 12:01 PM

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- Jim Young (guest) +2

2/1/2006, 3:42 PM

English, someone who lived on or near a down, which is an old word for a hill.

- Andrew (AndrewJKD) +1

2/18/2006, 4:02 PM

Thanks (from both me and my friend)!

Andrew
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Daniel Downer (guest)

6/30/2006, 10:12 AM

This surname is of Saxon origin, but there is also a root of Irish origin..