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‎12 Dec 1907 Ellis Island, New York, USA;

John Downing was recorded as "Sailed on SS Oceanic from Southampton to US. Arrived at Ellis-Island from Southampton on the Oceanic. His last residence was stated as Cardiff so presumably he had been there visiting his mother."

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man Mieszko I of Poland, King of Poland‏‎ 1) 2)
Born ‎± 930
Died ‎25 May 992‎, approximately 62 years 3)

Notes: Following Doubravka's death, Mieszko remarried to a nun called Oda, daughter of Margrave Dietrich. She bore her husband three sons.

Married ‎965 4) (11 or 12 years married)
to:

woman Doubravka of Bohemia‏‎ 5)
Born ‎between 940 and 945
Died ‎977‎ 4)

Child:

1.
man Bolesław I of Poland, King of Poland‏ 6)
Born ‎967
Died ‎17 Jun 1025‎, 57 or 58 years

Sources

1) Source: Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg "After this, the good mother gave birth to a son... She named him Boleslav, after her brother". Reference: Book 4, Chapter 56 (Data from secondary evidence)
2) Source: Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg "Yet, with fox-like cunning, his son Boleslav unified it once more in the hands of one ruler". Reference: Book 4, Chapter 58 (Data from secondary evidence)
3) Source: Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg "But on 25 May, in the year of the Incarnation 992... the aforementioned duke, now old and feverish, went from this place of exile to his homeland". Reference: Book 4, Chapter 58 (Data from secondary evidence)
4) Source: Cosmas of Prague, The Chronicle of the Czechs "In the year of the Lord’s incarnation 977. Doubravka died. She was very shameless for when in her advanced age she married the duke of Poland"
5) Source: Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg "Wishing to acquire a wife for his son from the emperor at Constantinople... this ruler sent across the sea to our emperor, not the desired maiden, but rather his niece, Theophanu". Reference: Book 2, Chapter 15 (Data from secondary evidence)
6) Source: Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg "He married the daughter of Margrave Rikdag, but later sent her away and took a Hungarian woman as his wife. She bore him a son, named Bezprym, but he also sent her away. His third wife was Emnilde, a daughter of the venerable lord, Dobromir... Shebore two sons, Miesco and another one whom the father named after his beloved lord. She also produced three daughters of whom one was an abbess, the second married Count Herman, and the third the son of King Vladimir". Reference: Book 4, Chapter 58 (Data from secondary evidence)