Hi Everybody,
I m new. Glad to know you re also interested in Charles Grant and Louisa Grant.
Carolina Augusta Grant was my maternal great great great grandmother. She was Charles Grant and Louisa Grant ( née Palmer) first born. Baptised, as you already know on December 17, th 1834 at St. Maurice in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Don t know her birth date.?
Carolina Augusta Grant married William Downer, my great great grandfather. He was born in the sle
of Wight circa 1830.
They married on February 2 nd, 1852 at St Helena. He was a sergeant with the Westmeath Rifles, 6 th and 9 th Battalion, Rifles Brigade Militia. His Garrison was stationed there.
Since Carolina Augusta Grant was already there with her family, she and William must have hit it off. After all, her beau and her father were both in the military. And the were all stationed at St Helena.
Carolina Augusta Grant and William Downer later returned to the Isle of Wight. The show up in two Census records there in the 1800' s. The have their grandchild, Carolina 9 years old, registered in the earlier record as a resident of the household with them. Does anyone know who s child she was?
Carolina Augusta and William had 7 children together.
One of their sons. was Francis Edward Downer, my great great grandfather, Francis Edward Downer was born and baptised in Westmeath, Co. Killdare, Ireland 1866. He was the second youngest.
Carolina Augusta Grant and William Grant died in St Mary' s Langham, Lexden, Essex. She in 1904. He on March 31, 1901.
I m interested in knowing more about Charles Grant and Louisa Palmer. Beyond their link as parents of Carolina Augusta and the fact that he was in the Marines and was a tailor and schoolmaster and she a schoolmistress, I know nothing.
RayWhit would you please forward me any records you received for Charles Grant and Louisa Palmer like Census records, Military discharges, marriage records etc.,
Glad to know I have family. Not yet sure who and where you all, where you are or how we re related but I m just starting to figure this all out.I d love to hear from you and know you better. !
By the way, does anyone know where Philips Tower was ? One of Carolina Augusta Grant and William Downer s daughters as baptised there.
Season s Greetings to you all out there. It s snowing like heck here. We re far from St Helena.!!! Who' s in Montreal? I m in Quebec City. We ll have to figure out where we stand relative wise. Lol!