![]() 3 The following year was born his only legitimate son, Robert, who was educated at Oxford, but proved to be a complete waster. In 1813, when he was living at Newton House, Perthshire, Downie lost his eldest legitimate daughter, Mary Cordelia, at the age of seven. ![]() 1881), who in 1829 married James Macalpine-Leny of Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire. 1811 Mary Downie gave birth in London to Marion Agatha ( d. 2 He and his wife and daughters arrived in England on 28 Aug., and on 27 Sept. Downie’s infant son George died at sea and was buried at St. When Downie left India with ‘an ample fortune’ in 1811 it became Cruttenden, Mackillop and Company, as his own role was taken over by his nephews George and James Mackillop* (the son of his eldest sister Mary and John Mackillop). The agency was for a time styled Downie and Company, but it later became Downie, Cruttenden and Company, Downie’s chief partner now being George Cruttenden, who died in 1822. Downie married and began to produce legitimate children in 1804. 1808 what became of him subsequently is not known, but he probably died in India. He also had an illegitimate son, Robert, who was born on 15 July 1803 and baptized on 16 Sept. William Barwell Carter, assistant surgeon of the 8th Dragoons, in 1823, when Downie settled £4,000 on her. He fathered an illegitimate daughter, Margaret, who married Dr. He was in partnership with Maitland by 1800. Downie was educated in Stirling, about 12 miles from Kilmadock, and in 1788 followed his brother to Bengal, where he joined the agency house of Patrick Maitland in Bankshall Street, Calcutta. 1808, in command of the Calcutta native militia. He reached the rank of major before his death at Allipore, 14 Dec. 1762, became a cadet in the East India Company’s Bengal army in 1783. His elder brother George, who was baptized on 14 Feb. His father, who was born in 1735, was in business as a distiller. He had at least eight sisters, not all of whom survived childhood. 1843) was Mary Murdoch, and his uncle was John Downie of Authentie. Biographyĭownie’s grandfather was the George Downie of Kilmadock whose second wife ( m. Offices HeldĬhairman, Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Co. Margaret Morison of Spillodon, Doune, Perth. 1805), distiller, of Spittletown, Monteith and Kilmadock, Perth and his w.
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