When John O'Neil Finley was born on 3 May 1713, in Diocese of Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, his father, Michael Finley, was 29 and his mother, Anna O'Neill, was 30. He married Martha Barclay in 1734, in Warwick Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 20 July 1757, in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Middle Spring, Southampton Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1750: Cumberland, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
Historical Boundaries 1750: Cumberland, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
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’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesJohn O'Neil Finley was born in Ireland & married Martha Barclay in Ireland say June 1734 just before sailing for America where he landed Sept 28, 1734 at Phila, Pa. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson Journal # …
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