Anybody out there ever heard of Pete or Peter Downey from Pennsylvania, or Detroit?

Question

Searching for information about a Grandfather I never met. Who had a son named John Downey ( who died at the age of 79.) John had a mother named Lydia. and her mother was named Molly Stevens or Stevenson.

I never did a search before on him.

Answer 1

Is Peter your grandfather or is John. what year was Peter /John  born, when did he die, you will need to  give the researcher a little more information for them to find the right information for you.

Answer 2

I searched the US Census 1880 - 1930 for Peter Downey married to Lydia, using Pete* and soundex. I didn't find anyone who looked likely. This was the closest:

Peter Doney

wife: Lydia

Location: School District 6, Phillips, MT

Peter there is an Indian and doesn't have a son John in 1930. He is in Montana, too.

Your question makes it sound like your grandfather Peter Downey had a wife, Lydia and a son John, whose age at death you know but whose birth year and death year you don't know.

I reasoned that if John died in 2008 he would have been born in 1929. If he died earlier than that he would have been born erlier. In any event, he was probably on the 1930 census as a 1-year old or older.

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bi...

has 435 men named John Downey, and you can't select them by age at death.

I couldn't find any Lydia Stevens* with mother Molly, either.