When John Finney was born on 2 June 1721, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Finney ll, was 32 and his mother, Martha Martin, was 30. He married Rachael Woodward on 25 August 1743, in Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 14 July 1788, in Warren, Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 67.
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Originally the town included Warren and part of Washington, but by 1784 the present boundaries were established, with Warren and Washington as separate towns.
English: habitational name from any of several places called from Old English and Old Norse finn ‘coarse grass’ + Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ or ēg ‘island, land partly surrounded by water’, such as the lost place Fynney in Cheddleton, Staffordshire (recorded as Fyneye in 1320), Fenay in Almondbury (Yorkshire), Finney in Croston (Lancashire), Finney Hill in Kingsley (Cheshire), and perhaps also Fenny Rough in Chaddesley Corbett (Worcestershire). Compare Feeney .
English: habitational name perhaps also from Vinals Farm in Cuckfield or Vinehall in Mountfield (both in Sussex), or Viney's Wood in Crundale (Kent); or from some other place described in Middle English as a fin-haw (Old English fīn-haga) ‘wood-heap enclosure’.
Irish: from Ó Fidhne, see Feeney 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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