When Susannah Finger was born in 1765, in Manheim Township, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, Peter Finger, was 35 and her mother, Catherine Barbara Reinhardt, was 33. She married Jacob "Fallston" Carpenter on 11 April 1786, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 27 June 1854, in Fallston, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Fallston, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States.
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English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle English, Middle High German, Yiddish finger, modern German Finger ‘finger’, probably applied as a nickname for a man who had some peculiarity of the fingers, such as possessing a supernumerary one or having lost one or more of them through injury, or for someone who was small in stature. As a Jewish name, it can also be an artificial name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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