{"id":505,"date":"2020-02-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=505"},"modified":"2020-02-07T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:24:08","slug":"downing-and-donovan-ryde-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/downing-and-donovan-ryde-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Downing and Donovan &#8211; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED.<br \/>Located on Victoria Street, Ryde on the Isle of Wight Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage) was the Standard Triumph area dealer on the island.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_506\" style=\"width: 777px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image12.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-506\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image12.jpg\" alt=\"Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage)\" width=\"767\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image12.jpg 767w, http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image12-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_507\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image13.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image13.jpg\" alt=\"Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage)\" width=\"586\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image13.jpg 586w, http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image13-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage)<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"504\" height=\"765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/downingfirstref.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/downingfirstref.jpg 504w, http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/downingfirstref-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE.<\/strong><br>We have looked at the 1939 Census for Downing and Donovan (Surnames) on the Island, from which extra details could be researched and we have come up with possible Downing and Donovans thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOWNING<\/strong><br><strong>George W Downing<\/strong><br><em>(Married to: Kathleen L Downing)<\/em> b:02\/01\/1876 d:10\/1946 (IOW)<br><strong>Kathleen Louise Downing<\/strong><br><em>(Married to George W)<\/em> b:10\/05\/1902 d:1993 (IOW)<br><br><strong>Maisie J Downing<\/strong> b:12\/10\/1911<br><strong>Doris A Downing <\/strong>b:07\/07\/1911<br><strong>Florence A Downing<\/strong> b:21\/10\/1901<br><strong>Marcie Downing<\/strong> b: 12\/10\/1911<br><br>Additions:<br><strong>Frank George Downing<\/strong>. Residence IOW, 1927 (but not 1939)<br>Kelly\u2019s Directory marked as Boot Repairs &#8211; Cobbler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DONOVAN<\/strong><br><strong>Albert F Donovan<\/strong> MATCH CONFIRMED<br><em>(Married to Dorothy May)<\/em>  b:1914<br><strong>Dorothy May Donovan<\/strong><br><em>(Married to Albert F. Nee Beattie)<\/em> b: 1912<br>Newspaper article confirms Albert Donovan, Union Street ref and partnership. Sept, 8 2000. IWCP Ws<br>Ref Dorothy Donovan, Saturday, January 19, 1946<br><br><strong>William Donovan<\/strong><br><em>(Married to Florence K)<\/em> b:1890 d:1956<br><strong>Florence K Donovan<\/strong><br><em>(Married to William)<\/em> b:1893<br><br><strong>William J Donovan<\/strong> b:1932<br><strong>Kathleen V Donovan<\/strong> b:1919<br><strong>Minnie J Donovan<\/strong> b:1876<br><strong>Annie Donovan<\/strong> b:1878<br><strong>Winifred Donovan<\/strong> b:1902<br><strong>Ada Donovan<\/strong> b:1876<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED.Located on Victoria Street, Ryde on the Isle of Wight Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage) was the Standard Triumph area dealer on the island. UPDATE.We have looked at the 1939 Census for Downing and Donovan (Surnames) on the Island, from which extra details could be researched and we have come up with possible Downing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,7,67,5],"tags":[65],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Downing and Donovan - Research - The 948cc Triumph Herald Convertible<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.triumphheraldconvertible.co.uk\/wordpress\/downing-and-donovan-ryde-garage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Downing and Donovan - Research - The 948cc Triumph Herald Convertible\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATED.Located on Victoria Street, Ryde on the Isle of Wight Downing and Donovan (Ryde Garage) was the Standard Triumph area dealer on the island. 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