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From: "Douglas/Ungaro" <>
Subject: [SCCOLLET] STARLING in 1790 Charleston District - HENRY STARLING - 4 Family and 11 Slaves
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:22:19 +0200


Greetings List,

Please excuse cross-posting, since some of you have gotten this
on other SC lists.

I'm researching STARLING and BROWNFIELD-related ancestry,
and also DEAS, LOWNDES (and variations) and DUNCAN.

My research includes Black families with these surnames and
connected to White SC families of the same names. Your help is
appreciated.

In particular I'm looking for details on one HENRY STARLING in the
1790 SC census, listed in Charleston District - Colleton was still part
of Charleston back then - details below.

My 2nd Greatgrandmother was ELIZABETH STARLING BROWNFIELD.
Her married surname was LOWNDES. She was born about 1850,
and lived into the 1900s. She died in Pittsburgh, PA where her daughter
GRACE STARLING LOWNDES lived. (Miss Grace Lowndes died 1956
in Pittsburgh.)

We have photos of my 2nd Greatgrandmother. She sat for her portrait
at least 2x in her life. Elizabeth Starling Brownfield Lowndes was a
racially mixed African American. I'd like to learn more about her family.

Elizabeth Starling Brownfield's husband was CAESAR DUNCAN LOWNDES.
The family had ties to "the Islands" as they spoke GULLAH or GEECHEE.
They were teachers who taught in the islands or among island families,
maybe living around Charleston. Their eldest daughter, Miss Grace
Lowndes, carried on this family tradition in her social work in Pittsburgh
PA where she was a founder of the Pittsburgh Urban League and was a
liaison with local courts.

I believe Elizabeth and Caesar Lowndes also lived in COLUMBIA (Richland
Co.), because Caesar Lowndes was doorkeeper in the state legislature.

By the late 1880s or 1890, they moved to EAST TENNESSEE - Chattanooga
(Hamilton Co.) and Maryville (Blount Co.)

Caesar Lowndes was a Civil War veteran. He's listed in the 1891 TN
Veterans' Schedule, living in Chattanooga. Sometime later they lived not
far away in Maryville TN. It was in Maryville that their daughter DAISY
met her future husband, Reverend George Richard Brabham, also from
SC (my Greatgrandparents). Daisy Starling Lowndes' real name was
HESTER DEAS LOWNDES, but she didn't like it so she changed it.

HENRY STARLING, slaveholder, 1790 SC CENSUS, as follows:

HENRY STARLING, Charleston District, St. Andrew's Parish.

There are 11 enslaved persons in this household along with "free white
females including heads of families: 2", and "free white males 16 yrs &
upward including head of household: 3". I would like to find more info
on the slaves and members of this family.

Other information and your suggestions are most welcome, and thank
you.

Marian Douglas, near Kosovo
Skopje, Macedonia -
in Italy -

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