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Down: Origin, Geographical Distribution
(Br.) Local. From Gun, a plain, a down or common; Welsh, gwaen. A person whose name was Gunn complained to a friend that his attorney, in his bill, had not let him off easily. 'That's no wonder,' said his friend, 'as he charged you too high !' But this is not so good as an entry in the custom-house books of Edinburgh, where it appears that 'A,' meaning Alexander 'A. Gunn was discharged for making a false report !' Lower.
Down Surname Origin
Down: Place of Origin :  Devon (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Dorset (United Kingdom) |  Wiltshire (United Kingdom) |  Kent (United Kingdom) |  Somerset (United Kingdom)
Down: Online Family Trees
DOWN Caterham (Surrey, England, United Kingdom) 1871 - 1899
DOWN Croydon Rd (United Kingdom) 1868 - 1923
DOWN Croydon (Surrey, England, United Kingdom) 1869 - 1869
DOWN Godstone Rd (United Kingdom) 1893 - 1909
DOWN Godstone Registration District (United Kingdom) 1895 - 1895
DOWN Teignmouth (Devon, England, United Kingdom) 1844 - 1844
DOWN Glastonbury, Somersetshire (Somerset, England, United Kingdom) 1742 - 1742
DOWN London (London, England, United Kingdom) 1890 - 1890
DOWN Poole (Dorset, England, United Kingdom) 1864 - 1864
DOWN Holdenhurst (Hampshire, England, United Kingdom) 1768 - 1768

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Down: Books that contain this surname
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DOWNThe Daily union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey. Containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and County ..
Author: Hall, John F., fl. 1899-1900 - Published in 1900
... days. He married in 1895, Mary Marshall Down, daughter of I, A. Down, ex-County Clerk of Atlantic County. ...
DOWNA genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain ...

... July, 1805, Emms, dau. of Richard Down, of Ha-Qiwfck Manor House, co. Middlesex, Esq. (by Rose, his wile, dan. and ...
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