Jay Edward Downes

Family/Spouse: unknown. unknown was born in cir 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Rutherford + Clara Marcella Simpson. Clara (daughter of James A. Simpson and Cecilia Ann Arabella Matilda Povall) was born in Oct 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary: JAMES A. SIMPSON who for 17 years had been a well know resident of Scioto Co. died Sunday afternoon at 4 oclock, his death taking place in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elliot Shaw, who lives near the Game Perserve, West Side. Death was due to infirmities. Mrs. Simpson died 13 years ago. Three sons and two daughters survive; Henry and George of this city, John of Washington State, Mrs. Hayes Downes of Illinois and Mrs. Shaw. Funeral services will be held from the Friendship M. E. Church at 2 pm Tuesday, the last rites to be the charge of the Rev. C. L. Thayer. Interment will be in Greenlawn. (Note: This is incorrect. He was buried in Friendship Cemetery.)

James married Cecilia Ann Arabella Matilda Povall on 19 Sep 1869 in Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire, England. Cecilia (daughter of Charles Povall and Arabella Rudkin) was born on 23 Jul 1845 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England; died on 17 Aug 1912 in Friendship, Scioto County, Ohio, USA; was buried in Friendship Cemetery, Friendship, Scioto County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Arabella RudkinSt. Nicolas's Church, Liverpool, England. Arabella (daughter of Henry Rudkin and Arabella Sackville Cotter) was born in 1818 in Ireland; died on 7 Nov 1882 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: schoolmistress

Henry married Arabella Sackville Cotter in 1801 in Diocese of Cloyne, Cork, Ireland. Arabella (daughter of Rev. George Sackville Cotter and Margaret Rogers) was born in 1782 in Castlemartyr, County Cork, Ireland; died on 11 Jun 1845 in Tabernacle Row, Shoreditch, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, Shoreditch, London, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: St. Peter's College, Cambridge, England
• Education: Westminster School, London, England

Notes:

From: The Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee; Vol. IV. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.

"Cotter, George Sackville (1755-1831), poet and translator, was the fourth son of Sir James Cotter. He was educated at Westminster School, of which he was captain in 1770, and in 1771 he was elected to St. Peter's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1775 and M.A. in 1779. Having taken holy orders he became vicar of Kilmacdonough, and rector of Kilcreddan-Garrivoe and Ightermorragh, diocese of Cloyne. In 1788 he published two volumes of 'Poems,' dedicated to Lady Shannon, and consisting of a poem in two books, entitled 'Prospects,' and a collection of odes and other fugitive pieces. In 1826 he published a translation of Terence for the use of the schools, in the preface to which he states that when at Westminster School he had been an actor in three of Terence's comedies. In the following year he printed seven of the plays of Plautus, 'translated literally and grammatically, and cleared of objectionable passages.' The later years of his life were spent at Youghal, Cork, and he died in 1831. By his wife, a daughter of Bayly Rogers, physician and banker of Cork, he left, with other issue, four sons."

George Sackville Cotter was named after Lord George Sackville, a friend of his father's, and was known as "a great musician." His translations of the comedies of Plautus was "Plauti Comoediae septem selectae; Anglice redditae, expurgatae." The comedies are Aulularia, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Pseudolus, Trinummus, and Rudens. The book was published by J. F. Dove, London, in 1827. The poems dedicated to Lady Shannon were published by William Flynn, Cork, in 1788. The full title is "Poems, consisting of odes, songs, pastorals, satyrs, &c, and a descriptive poem in four books, called Prospects." His translations of the comedies of Terence was "Four Comedies of Terence, translated, and the stage management and mode of acting them set down, as they were acted at Westminster School; and also the other two comedies of Terence, the Heautotimorumenos and the Hecyra..." It was published by Dodges and M'Arthur, Dublin, in 1824. George Cotter also wrote "An Essay on the Best Mode of Extension of Agriculture in Ireland, by the breaking up and cultivating lay or grasslands." It was printed by A. Edwards, Cork, in 1802. It was originally published in "Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, 1801." Grorge Cotter is listed in "A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors" by A. Austin Allibone, published by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, in 1858, and in "The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary" by David J. O'Donoghue, published by the author, London, in 1892-3.

George married Margaret Rogers on 4 Nov 1775 in St. Finbarr's, Cork, Ireland. Margaret (daughter of Bayly Rogers and Martha Pigott) died on 11 Feb 1832 in (probably) Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]