Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Finley was born in 1676, in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, her father, John Finley, was 40 and her mother, Jeane Thomsone, was 11673.
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1690
William of Orange (William III) lands at Carrickfergus and defeats James II at Battle of the Boyne.
1692
Exclusion of Catholics from Parliament and all professions.
1714
Catholics hold just 7% of land in Ireland.
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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