18 Aug 2023
Wife: Muriel Jessie Johnstone
Born: 18 Jul 1887 in Gloucestershire 1,2 (see note 1) Census: 1891 in Yorkshire (see note 2) Resided: 1934 - 1970 at 26 Barrow Road, Trumpington 2 Died: 1977 in Cambridge 3 (see note 3) Father: Archibald Johnstone (1857 - ) Mother: Jessie Minnie Watson (1861 - 1947) Media link: https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=walter+john+dowson+cambridge Media desc: Biography
Husband: Walter John Dowson Married: 1915 in Kenya 4
Born: 22 May 1887 in Bristol 4,1,2 (see note 4) Occupation: Plant Pathologist 4 Occupation: Lecturer in Botany (Mycology) 1 Resided: 1933 - 1962 at 26 Barrow Road, Trumpington Died: 1963 in Cambridge 3 (see note 5) Father: Mother:
F Child 1: Honor Dowson Born: 21 Dec 1920 in Surrey 2,1 (see note 6) Resided: 1939 at 26 Barrow Road, Trumpington 1 Occupation: 1939 Student 1 Resided: 1945 - 1948 at 26 Barrow Road, Trumpington 5,6 Died: 2011 in Shropshire 7 Husband: Vernon Howard Earle b. 1921 d. 1984 Married: 1944 in Cambridge 2 (see note 7)
M Child 2: Anthony Morgan Dowson Born: 1923 in Surrey 2 (see note 8) Resided: 1948 - 1952 at 26 Barrow Road, Trumpington Wife: Eryl Glyn-Jones Married: 1950 in Huntingdonshire 2 (see note 9)
Sources: (1) 1939 Register. (2) FreeBMD website. (3) Index on ancestry.co.uk. (4) Biography online. (5) Electoral Register. (6) Baptism records of children. (7) Ancestry family tree.
Event Notes Note (1) Sep 1887 Tewkesbury 6a 451 Note (2) Age 3, born Tewkesbury, with family Note (3) Sep 1977 Cambridge 9 0677 born 13 Jul 1887 Note (4) Sep 1887 Bristol 6a 37 Note (5) Sep 1963 Cambridge 4a 175 age 76 Note (6) Mar 1921 Guildford 2a 146 mothers surname Johnstone Note (7) Mar 1944 Cambridge 3b 1023 Note (8) Sep 1923 Guildford 2a 126 mothers surname Johnstone Note (9) Sep 1950 St Neots 4b 1003 Copyright © Trumpington Local History Group 2023 Email TLHG Return to TLHG introduction page Name Index