Brief Life History of Ezra
When Ezra Finn was born about 1848, in Benton Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Sidney B Finn, was 33 and his mother, Caroline Van Fleet, was 33.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Ezra Finn in household of Sydney Finn, "United States Census, 1850"
Parents and Siblings
1816–1878 Male
1816–1893 Female
Siblings (10)
1840–1922 Male
1842–1910 Female
1844– Male
1846–1867 Female
1847–1927 Female
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World Events (8)
1863
Age 15
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
Age 15
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 33
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Liam, Aidan, Bridie, Brigid, Declan, Dierdra, Eoin, Keelin, Maeve, Niall, Seamus.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Finn ‘descendant of Fionn’, a byname meaning ‘white’ or ‘fair-haired’; it is often found Anglicized as White . This name is borne by several families in the west of Ireland.
English and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name Fin(n) (Old Norse Finnr, Fin, originally ‘Finn’), used both as a byname and as a short form of various compound names with this first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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