Samuel Willard Finley

Brief Life History of Samuel Willard

When Samuel Willard Finley was born on 4 January 1890, in Vinland, Kern, California, United States, his father, William Jasper Finley, was 40 and his mother, Rachel Moriah Daisey Anderson, was 22. He married Ida Adella Franch on 5 November 1920, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Bell, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 11 January 1965, in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Forest Lawn, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.

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Samuel Willard Finley
1890–1965
Ida Adella Franch
1896–
Marriage: 5 November 1920
William George Finley
1921–1925
Daisy Elizabeth Finley
1923–2003
Mary Ellen Finley
1928–2003

Sources (20)

  • Samuel Finley, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Samuel W Finley, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Samuel Willard Finley, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

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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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