Why Jennifer Dowds is on this page

Heritage: Northern-Ireland-born international lawn bowler. Direct documented Irish-born lineage.

Jennifer Dowds (born 1959) is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler who won the bronze medal in the fours at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand. She also won the singles bronze medal at the 2007 Atlantic Bowls Championships and the pairs bronze medal at the 2009 Atlantic Bowls Championships. She is one of the small group of Dowds-surname elite athletes representing Northern Ireland on the international stage in the 2000s.

Heritage notes

Family root: Northern Ireland — irish-born-confirmed-northern-ireland.

The directory threads Jennifer Dowds back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.