When Dennis Finley was born on 28 April 1780, in Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, Jonathan Finley, was 40 and his mother, Jane Dennis, was 41. He married Adrianna Brittain on 2 August 1813, in Kings, New Brunswick, British North America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Westfield, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada in 1861. He died in August 1863, in Kings, New Brunswick, British North America, at the age of 83, and was buried in Kings, New Brunswick, British North America.
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In 1784, New Brunswick became a separate colony. It is the only bilingual province. The captial is Fredericton.
Established in 1784, when the colony became a province, the legislature met for the first time in 1786. It met in Fredericton in the Lower House.
In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
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 NamesNew Brunswick Land Petitions, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 6000, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5H1. Dennis FINLEY - 1821 / John Walter Smith & Dennis Finley, British Subjects - …
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