1.Thomas1Dowden was born Abt. 1650. He married AlicePickering.
Notes for Thomas Dowden:
In the book "Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713" by Richard S. Dunn, Dowden is one of the surnames listed as plantation owners.
p. 114 "Other Barbadian big planter families - Berringer, Clutterbuck, Davies, Dowden, Elliott, Fenwick, Foster, Hall, Lane, Lake, Merrick, Quintyle, Robinson, and Sandiford - obtained large Carolina land grants between 1672 and 1692."
There are current Dowden families living in the West Indies.
Per info from Ancestry.com:
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500's-1900's
Author: Gale Research
Publisher: Online publication - Provo, UT, ISA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 3005. Original date - Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s - 1900s. Farmington Hill, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2005. Original date: Filby, P. William, ed..
Repository: Ancestry.com, 360 West 4800 North, Provo, UT 84604
CITATION:
Detail: Place: Barbados; Year: 1679; page number 145
Actual text: Name: Thomas Dowden
Arrival: 1679
Barbados
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Also found: SAMUELL DOWDEN arriving from Barbados in 1679
Source Publication Code: 776
Source Bibliography: BRANDOW, JAMES C: Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality...and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700; Census returns, Parish Registers, and Militia Rolls from the Barbados Census of 1679-1680. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982. p245
Page: 197
Also listed in this same citation was JOSEPH DOWDEN
I've found no proof of them being relatives, but one can assume that they were brothers or cousins.
Child of Thomas Dowden and Alice Pickering is:
