Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria Finley was born on 11 July 1839, in Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Findlay, was 40 and her mother, Barbara Gemmill, was 35. She married William James Carter on 29 March 1864, in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 28 December 1886, in Hay, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 47, and was buried in Hay Cemetery, Hay, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Mary Finlay, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1841
George Grey appointed Governor of South Australia.
1843 · The Disruption in the Church of Scotland
The Disruption of 1843 was a division within the Church of Scotland, which 474 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away from the Church to form the Free Church of Scotland. They didn’t reject the principles of the Church of Scotland but were trying to establish a purer version of the Church without the King or Parliament being its head. It had huge effects not only within the Church of Scotland, but also with Scottish civic life.
1854 · Great North of Scotland Railway
Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.
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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