When Margaret Elizabeth Finley was born on 8 March 1740, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Samuel Finley, was 31 and her mother, Margaret Rowland, was 32. She married William Rippey in June 1762, in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 2 January 1801, in Shippensburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Gods Acre Cemetery, Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1750: Cumberland, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
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Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), from fionn ‘white, fair’ (see Finn ) + laoch ‘hero’, reinforced by an Old Norse name based on finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’ or ‘hero’. The name is common in Ireland as well as Scotland.
English: habitational name from one or more lost, unidentified or altered placenames so named, such as Philleyholme, Dorset (recorded as Finelegh in 1280) derived from Old English fīna ‘wood-pecker’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Also a variant of Findlow, from Finlow Hill in Over Alderley, Cheshire (from Old English fīn ‘heap’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’ meaning ‘heaped mound’).
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