When Sarah Finney was born in 1714, in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Evans Finney, was 30 and her mother, Sarah Lawrence, was 26. She married Lawrence Thompson Sr about 1740, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died before 1790.
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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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