Most of the information in the Downie Family Section has come from an album titled, 

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A CHRONICLE OF THE FURNELL FAMILY

compiled by Jessie Menzies Furnell

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This album consisted of old photos and paper clippings and handwritten notes of the family which had been collected and saved over the years.  We can be thankful that Jessie had the foresight, time and patience to preserve these memories for us to enjoy today.

Unfortunately the album was not of archival quality and had sticky pages which created quite a challenge to remove some of the photos and especially the old fragile paper clippings.  I have now compiled an album of archival quality which I hope will preserve the photos and paper clippings into the future. However, we can be grateful their value was appreciated by our forebears and saved for us to enjoy and learn from today.  

With modern technology the contents of the album are now no longer only available to a few and can be shared with all via the internet.  For those who are featured in many of the portraits this technology would be beyond their dreams for after all, electricity, telephone and the car were still new discoveries to them.  

I am not trying to include all birth deaths and marriages for each person as these can be traced through Ancestory websites.