Edward Downes after his health declined following a hip replacement. Lady Downes was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer that metastasised to her liver, and given only weeks to live. Lady Downes wrote a letter to family explaining that she had decided against treatment and that: Sir Edward, aged 85, and Lady Downes, aged 74, ended their lives by assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Zürich, Switzerland, on 10 July 2009. Although Joan did not want the children present, Dignitas encouraged it and "Ted and Joanie" were reported to be pleased when the time came. Their children issued a statement speaking of
Sir Edward Bullock attacked her house and robbed her of gold and jewelry. Sir Edward Bullock Sir Edward Bullock of Faulkbourne (c. 1580 - 1644) was an English landowner, knighted by King James I and a Cavalier during the English Civil War. He purchased Faulkbourne Hall in 1637 which was held in the Bullock family for 260 years. Edward Bullock was born c. 1580, the elder son of Edward Bullock of Wigborough and Loftes in Great Totham and Joan Collen of High Laver, Essex. Edward married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Wylde of Glazeley Hall (died 1599), Salop and Kempsey, Worcester and