Brief Life History of James Edwin Burr
When James Edwin Burr Finley was born on 5 May 1758, in Nottingham Fields, Cecil, Maryland, United States, his father, Reverend Samuel Finley, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Hall, was 39. He married Mary Peronneau about 1786, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 13 June 1819, in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
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- James Edwards Burr Finley, "Find A Grave Index"
- James Edwards Burr Finley, "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783"
- James E B Finley in entry for Samuel Benjamin Rush Finley, "New Jersey, Church Records, 1675-1970"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
Maryland is the 7th state.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
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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