Individual Details
Firmin Emile Dickson Dowling
(16 Dec 1900 - 18 Jan 1968)
Events
| Birth | 16 Dec 1900 | Rathmines, Dublin |  | ||
| Baptism | 24 Dec 1900 | Rathmines Church, Rathmines, Dublin 6 | | ||
| Census-shared | 1901 | (James Dowling) 20 Grove Park, Rathmines, Dublin | | ||
| Residence (family)-shared | 1900 | (James Dowling and Maria Beatrice Dickson) Grove Park, Rathmines, Dublin | | ||
| Residence (family)-shared | 1911 | (James Dowling and Maria Beatrice Dickson) house 2 Maryland, Ardcath, Meath | | ||
| Census-shared | 1911 | (James Dowling) Maryland, Ardcath, Meath | | ||
| Occupation | pre 1924 | ex army per marriage register. | | ||
| Marriage | 26 Nov 1924 | Ardcath Church, Meath, Ireland - Mary Ellen "Nellie" Keenan | | ||
| Occupation | 1929 | labourer - per immigration records | | ||
| Emigration | 5 Jul 1929 | Roman Catholic settlement, Douglas, Ontario, Canada | | ||
| Residence (family) | 1929 | Roman Catholic settlement, Douglas, Ontario, Canada - Mary Ellen "Nellie" Keenan | |||
| Residence (family)-shared | 1929 | (Firmin Emile Dickson Dowling and Mary Ellen "Nellie" Keenan) Roman Catholic settlement, Douglas, Ontario, Canada | |||
| Residence (family) | Ca 1934 | 397 Rielle Avenue, Verdun, Montreal PQ, Canada - Mary Ellen "Nellie" Keenan | | ||
| Military | 31 Aug 1943 | as a Sergeant in Reserve Army - as a Sergeant in Reserve Army | | ||
| Holiday (Family) | 1949 | Mary Ellen "Nellie" Keenan | | ||
| Residence (family) | on 1942 and 1957 | 5119 Wellington Street, Ontario, Canada - Mary Ellen "Nellie" Keenan | | ||
| Occupation | 1957 | machinest | | ||
| Holiday | 1960 | Ireland | | ||
| Occupation | 1960 | labor foreman | | ||
| Death | 18 Jan 1968 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Ellen "Nellie" Keenan (1904 - 1999) |
| Child | Maire Patrica Dowling (1925 - 1979) |
| Child | James Christopher "Jimmie" Dowling (1927 - 2017) |
| Father | James Dowling (1847 - ) |
| Mother | Maria Beatrice Dickson (1876 - ) |
| Sibling | George Dowling (1907 - ) |
| Sibling | Ursula Adelaide Dowling (1909 - 1989) |
Endnotes
1. "Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935," database, Ancestry.Com (www.ancestry.com: accessed ), ; citing Passenger Lists, 1865-1935. Ottawa, Canada: Library and Archives Canada.
2. Census 1901. Census Database, National Archives of Ireland. Dowling Family. Grove Park, Rathmines, Dublin.
3. Members of LDS-Church, "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845- 1958," database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch - Record Search (http://www.pilot.familysearch.org/: Viewed 2 June 2012), Birth Firman Dowling Book: 1901, Page: 580.
4. "UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960," database, Ancestry.com, Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists (Ancestry.com : Viewed 31 May 2016), Firmin Dowling; extracted from (N.p.:n.p.n.d.), Class: BT26; Piece: 1473; Item: 6.
5. "Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915," database, Ancestry.com (Ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2016), Firmin Emile Dickson Dowling.
6. "Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915," database, Ancestry.com (Ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2016), Firmin Dowling baptism 16 December 1900.
7. Census 1901. Census Database, National Archives of Ireland. Dowling family. Rathmines, Dublin.
8. Census 1901. Census Database, National Archives of Ireland. Dowling Family. Grove Park, Rathmines, Dublin.
9. "Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915," database, Ancestry.com (Ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2016), Firmin Emile Dickson Dowling.
10. Census 1911. Census Database, National Archives of Ireland. Dowling Family. Maryland, Ardcath, Meath.
11. Census 1911. Census Database, National Archives of Ireland. Dowling Family. Maryland, Ardcath, Meath.
12. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, "Search the church / civil records," database, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Irish Genealogy (http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/: viewed 28 September 2019), Marriage Register Ellen Keenan / Firmin Dowling.
13. Oral History. Facts relating to Family of John and Alice Keenan (nee Callaghan).
14. Ireland, Department of Health, State Marriage Register, Jan - Mar 1925: 551, TBC, Ellen Keenan / Firman Dowling, January 1925–March 1925;General Registrar Office, Dublin.
15. Members of LDS-Church, "Ireland Marriages 1845-1958 Transcription," database, DC Thomson, Find my Past (http://search.findmypast.com/: Viewed 8 February 2014), Ellen & Firmin Dowling; citing Irish GRO.
16. Ancestry.com, Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).
17. Ireland, General Register Office, State Marriage Registers, 1924, 91, Firmin DOWLING // Ellen KEENAN, 21 November 1924irishgenealogy.ie.
18. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, "Search the church / civil records," database, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Irish Genealogy (http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/: viewed 28 September 2019), Marriage Register Ellen Keenan / Firmin Dowling.
19. "Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935," database, Ancestry.Com (www.ancestry.com: accessed ), ; citing Passenger Lists, 1865-1935. Ottawa, Canada: Library and Archives Canada.
20. "Immigration Records (1925-1935)," database, Library and Archives Canada, Discover the Collection: Genealogy and Family History (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/family-history/index-e.html: accessed 18 September 2008), Firmin Dowling Book: 1929, Vol: 13, Page: 114 Line: Microfilm reel: T-14755 .
21. "Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 - Nominal Indexes," database, Government of Canada, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca : accessed 1 April 2018), Dowling Family emigration to Canada 1929.
22. Kitty Keenan, "Address Book," page 1; Addresses, personal notes, circa 1931, Dublin / Meath; privately held by Great Niece, Maeve Keenan, , 2010. Address of Mrs F Dowling. Given to Maeve Keenan by Kittys brother Larry.
23. Kitty Keenan, Held by Brendan Keenan (mid 1930s). || Mrs F Dowling. Verdun, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
24. Letter: Nellie Dowling(Montreal Canada) to Kitty Keenan(Battramstown Meath). 31 August 1943, [transcription]. Edan Keenan.
25. Manifest, Aquitania, 7 May 1949, Firmin and Ellen Dowling, uk, outward passenger lists, 1890-1960, ( : accessed 20 July 2019).
26. Wedding Clipping: Charles Presley & Marie Dowling article.
27. Letter: Nellie Dowling(Montreal Canada) to Kitty Keenan(Battramstown Meath). 31 August 1943, [transcription]. Edan Keenan.
28. Library and Archives Canada, Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 (Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada., 2012), Firmin Dowling 1957.
29. Letter: Nellie Dowling(Quebec) to Kitty Keenan(Battramstown, Meath). 31 August 1943. Brendan Keenan.
30. Library and Archives Canada, Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 (Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada., 2012), Firmin Dowling 1957.
31. "UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960," database, Ancestry.com, Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists (Ancestry.com : Viewed 31 May 2016), Firmin Dowling; extracted from (N.p.:n.p.n.d.), Class: BT26; Piece: 1473; Item: 6.
32. "UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960," database, Ancestry.com, Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists (Ancestry.com : Viewed 31 May 2016), Firmin Dowling; extracted from (N.p.:n.p.n.d.), Class: BT26; Piece: 1473; Item: 6.
33. Memorial Card, Firmin Dowling 1968.