Brief Life History of Mercy
When Mercy Finch was born on 6 September 1718, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Samuel Finch, was 45 and her mother, Mary Whelpley, was 26. She married Jonathan Lockwood in 1742, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters.
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Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English finch, fink ‘finch’ (Old English finc), for a small, lively, cheerful person.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Czech, Slovenian, and Croatian Fink ‘finch’, or of some of the corresponding Slavic surnames, e.g. Czech (Moravian) Pěnka (see Penka ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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