Brief Life History of Florence
When Florence Finley was born in 1895, her father, Lebaron Finley, was 38 and her mother, Margaret Keoughan, was 27. She lived in Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901. She died on 24 November 1916, in Chatham, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 21.
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- Florence Finlay in household of Maggie Finlay, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Florence Finlay, "New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938"
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1901 · Hartland Covered Bridge
July 4, 1901, the Hartland covered bridge was finished. It spans across the Saint John River, making it the longest covered bridge. Until it was built, the only way across the river was by ferry.
Name Meaning
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.
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