William Downie and Marion McNeill

David Downie 
Gardener 
b 10 Mar 1821 
Penicuik, Midlothian 
d 21 October 1875
Colinton, Midlothian
Helen Lawson 
  
b ca. 1826 
Ratho, Midlothian 
d 26 May 1886
Colinton, Midlothian
Daniel McNeill 
Papermaker 
b 1828 
Penicuik, Midlothian 
d 26 September 1912
Currie, Midlothian
Marion Wilson 
  
b ca 1829 
Linlithgow, West Lothian 
d 24 April 1910
Currie, Midlothian
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m 11 July 1846 Colinton, Midlothian

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William Downie

Papermaker 
b 1 Nov 1853 Colinton, Midlothian 
d 1929 Blackburn, Lancashire

m 25 April 1847 Currie, Midlothian
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Marion McNeill

b 1851 Currie, Midlothian
d 9 February 1880 Currie, Midlothian

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m 22 June 1877 Currie

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Marion Wilson Downie 
  married James Arnot
b 18 Sep 1878
Currie, Midlothian 
d 1948
Westmorland, England

Helen Lawson Downie 

b 30 January 1880
Currie, Midlothian 
d 20 October 1883
Currie, Midlothian

After the death of Marion McNeill, William Downie appears to have left his two daughters with their maternal grandparents at Blinkbonny, Currie, where the younger daughter Helen Lawson Downie died in 1883. He was in Flint, North Wales, at the time of the 1881 Census, when his daughters were in Currie with their grandparents. The elder daughter Marion Wilson Downie married James Arnot on 1 June 1906 in Currie.

William moved to England, where he married Fanny Walker, by whom he had three more children.

William Downie and Fanny Walker

David Downie 
Gardener 
b 10 Mar 1821 
Penicuik, Midlothian 
d 21 October 1875
Colinton, Midlothian
Helen Lawson 
  
b ca. 1826 
Ratho, Midlothian 
d 26 May 1886
Colinton, Midlothian
Charles Walker
Papermaker 
b ca 1836 
Kent, England
d

Rachel Ann Ashworth 
Weaver  
b 1841 
Bradford, Yorkshire, England
d

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m 11 July 1846 Colinton, Midlothian

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William Downie

Papermaker 
b 1 Nov 1853 Colinton, Midlothian 
d 1929 Blackburn, Lancashire, England

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m 21 June 1862 Bradford, Yorkshire, England
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Fanny Walker
Paper Sorter
b 1862 Bingley, Yorkshire, England
d 1935 Blackburn, Lancashire, England

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m 1886 Halifax, Yorkshire, England

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Ethel Downie
Paper Sorter
b 20 February 1887
Rippenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
m Arthur Riding 1912
d 1974
Blackburn, Lancashire, England

David Downie
Fish Fryer Shop Keeper
b 26 November 1888
Ratcliffe, Lancashire, England
M Ann Barrett 1930
d 1965
Blackburn, Lancashire, England

Jessie Downie
Cotton Weaver
b 26 January 1891
Rochdale, Lancashire, England
m Harry Prescott 1916
d 1978
Rochdale, Lancashire, England