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• Birth: 1816, Walworth, Surrey, England
• Birth: 1817, Reigate, Surrey, England

John married Mary Ann Little 20 Oct 1838, Lambeth, Surrey, England. Mary (daughter of John Little and Elizabeth Little) was born 1817, Woolwich, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth: 1814, Croydon, Surrey, England
• Birth: 1815, Woolwich, Kent, England
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• Name: James Edward Dowley
• Name: Jas Dowley
• Name: Jas. Dowley

James married Harriett Nicholson 25 May 1805, Lewisham, Kent, England. Harriett (daughter of Robert Nicholson and Sarah Hawes) was born 1786, Lewisham, Kent, England; died 11 Mar 1867, Deptford, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth: 1787, Southwark, Surrey, England
• Name: Harriot Dailey
• Name: Harriot Dowley

John — Elizabeth Little. Elizabeth was born 1787, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Servant at Addiscombe House in 1851.

In 1702, 'Addiscombe Place' was built to John Vanbrugh's design. He was best known for Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard and was a prime exponent of the English Baroque style. The house was built on a site which is now the corner of Outram Road and Mulberry Lane. It replaced a fine Elizabethan mansion. Which was once the seat of Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.

Sir John Evelyn recorded in his Diary "I went to Adscomb on 11 July 1703 to see my son-in-law’s new house. It has excellent brickwork and Portland stone features, that I pronounced it good solid architecture, and one of the very best gentlemen's houses in Surrey." Distinguished guests who stayed at the mansion include George III, William Pitt and Peter the Great of Russia. Peter the Great was reputed to have planted a cedar tree in Mulberry Lane to record his visit.

This was one of three great houses which once stood in the area, the others being 'Ashburton House' (see later notes) and 'Stroud Green House'.

Addiscombe Military Seminary

In 1809, Emelius Ratcliffe sold Addiscombe Place to the British East India Company, whereupon it became a military academy - the Addiscombe Military Seminary. The company dealt in the importation of tea, coffee, silk, cotton and spices, and maintained its own private army. The officers of this army were trained at Addiscombe before setting off for India. In 1858, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also called the First War of Indian Independence), the British East India Company went out of existence.

The college closed in 1861 and was sold to developers in 1863 for £33,600. They razed it to the ground with dynamite. All that is left are the two buildings 'Ashleigh' and 'India' on the corner of Clyde Road/Addiscombe Road and the former gymnasium on Havelock Road, now private apartments.

Five parallel roads were laid out, to the south of the former college site - Outram, Havelock, Elgin, Clyde and Canning Roads. They were all named after individuals who were prominent in either the military or civil governance of British India.

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James married Ann Blofield 31 Aug 1766, Hampshire, England. Ann was born Abt 1740; died 08 Aug 1781, Bromley, Kent, England; was buried 1781, Bromley, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

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Near Ann's gravestone are interred four of her children that died in their infancy.

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Noted by Richard Holworthy
Published in The British Archivists Vol 1 Sept 1914 to June 1915

Ann DOWLEY, wife of Mr James Dowley of the parish of St. Saviour’s, Southwark, cornfactor, died 8 August 1781, aged 41.

Robert married Sarah Hawes 24 Dec 1774, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex. [Group Sheet]

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