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This is from: Anthony Finney. Hope someone can help with his questions. 

 I just yesterday made contact with a woman who has information dating back to about the 1700's on Finney's out of the Amelia and Pittsylvania Co. 

Virginia Finney's that led to my family and hers.

  Her grandmother was my grandfathers sister.  

(No clue how she and I would be related though). 

 But I would love to know how far into Irish history you were able to trace the Finneys

 to see if they tie in with John Finney, William Avery Finney and then into Feb 11 1899 born Bassel Talton Finney (my grandfather).
 

 

From: Lynne Hadley,

 

My Finnie was William, who married Ann
Boyd in Kilmarnock in 1745.  The family (Finnies, that is) were
industrialists and one of them, John, had a street built and named after
him.  They were also instrumental in the establishment of the Empire of
Brazil......a fascinating bunch!!  I shall check out Electric Scotland,
Terry.....it's a wonderful site, isn't it?  I love reading about Scottish
history, Terry......a surprising number of very talented people came out of
Ayrshire.  Do you have any idea at all, where the Finnie family originated
from?  I suspect that they must have been a fair way up the ladder, somehow,
if the marriages of my ancestors/rellies are anything to go by.  The McEwen
family (descendants of my distant cousin, Robert Finnie McEwen) married into
some of the 'best' families, including royalty....in fact, he married a
Dundas.  And I am led to believe that Ann Boyd was one of the Portincross or
Pitcon Boyds.  Wm was a hammerman in a foundry when the banns were called,
but ended up owning half the foundry with one of the Guthries....I can only
assume that he bought his way in using Ann's dowry.  And the family ended up
owning paper mills, coalmines and traded as merchants in Portugal, Brazil,
South Africa, and India (the family company acted as merchant bankers too,
and were an accepting house for Rothschild's)......difficult for an humble
hammerman to do using only his wages!!  :)))

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 Jeffrey was born at Parish Lenton, County Nottinghamshire, England.

 He married Katherine Jackson on 19 September 1558 at Parish Lenton, County Nottinghamshire, England. 

She died 1560. He married Ellen Smedley circa 1560 at Parish Lenton, County Nottinghamshire, England. Jeffrey died at Parish Lenton, County Nottinghamshire, England.

 His body was interred on 21 July 1586 at Parish Lenton, County Nottinghamshire, England. 

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The Will of Ellen Finney (Smeadley)    

"The will of Ellen Finney of Lenton proves that Robert Finney 

indeed had a daughter Katherine. Not only should Ellen's will remove

 any doubts concerning the identification of this family, 

but it adds another generation to the pedigree. Ellen is clearly the widow 

of Galfridi [Jeffrey] Finney who was buried on 17 August 1606. 

Her will was written on 8 August 1606 and proved 16 January 1607.

In the name of god Amen the Eighte daie of Auguste in the yeare of our lord god /1606/. 

I Eline Finnye of Lenton in the County and Archdeaconrye of Nottinghamshire 

widdowe sicke in body but of good and perfecte remembrance 

laude and praise be given to god therefore doe ordaine and make 

this my laste will and testament in manner and forme followinge that is to witt 

Firste and principallie I comende my soule into the handes of Jesus Christe my 

onelie Savior and redemer and my body to the Earthe fromwhence it came to be buried in the parishe Churcheyaeard of Lenton aforsaid as neare to my husband 

Jeffray Finnye as may be. And for the dysposicion of my worldly goodes my will is thatthey shalbe bestowed as followeth Viz. Firste I give and bequeath to my sonne 

Robart Finnye my ride Cowe. Item to my daughter Anne the wief of 

William Fletcher my blacke Cowe. Item to my daughter 

Sicilye Finnye my browne heffer. Item to my daughter

 Issabell Finnye my black heffer my Cupbord and the greatest brasse panne 

over and above the childes parte of goodes due to her by the laste will of 

Jeffray Finnye her Father deceased. Item I give to my said daughter 

Siscile Finnye the good will of my house And I humblye beseche the 

honorable the Lo: Wharton that it may please him to admitt her servant thereunto, 

and that she may quietlye enioye the same after my death. 

Item my Will is that my sonne in Lawe William Fletcher shall
have the kitchine and the nether parlor to dwell in untill he can 

provide himselfe elswhere. Item I give to everie one of my said sone in lawe 

William Fletcher his children/ to witt/ Henry Fletcher, Alice Fletcher, 

Margerye Fletcher and Anne Fletcher ijs in monye and to everie one a henne. 

Item to John Fynnye And to Katherine Fynnye sonne and daughter of my 

sonne Robart Fynnye to eyther of them ijs in money and to eyther of them a henne.

 Item to Marye and to Elizabeth Finnye daughters of my sonne 

Edward Finnye to eyther of them ijs in money and to eyther of them a henne. 

Item to my daughter in lawe Anne Fynnye wief of my said sonne

Edward Fynnye paid in full satisfaction of any procion which shee can 

challenge under coulor of her said husbandes righte. All the rest of my goodes. 

 NEHGR Volume CXLVIII, October 1994.

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The Name Phinney first appears in this country about 1637. 

The name is variously written; it appears under the form of 

 Phinney, Phyney and Pleney. Ancient spelling: Fenis, de Fienes, and De Fiennes. 
     In early days many names took the dimunitive form by adding ey. 

The name might come from the Latin "finis" 

(the end and mean a man who lived at the end of a cape or point of land. 
      In the New York Public Library may be found a copy of 

"The Cheshire and Lancashire Historical Collector,

" edited by T. Worthington Barlow, Manchester, 1855. 

which carries the family back to "Lord Baron Fenis, 1066, 

a kinsman of King William the Conqueror." 
      "Ingelram de Fiennes, a lord in Boulogne, who lost his life at Acon, 

1189, married before 1171, Lady Sybilla de Boulogne de Tingrie.

Maude, daughter of Ingelram de Fiennes, married Humphrey de Bohum (d. 1298).

He and Roger Bigod ruled England under Edward I, the most powerful of all barons. 
      William de Fines feudal lord of Martock, Somerset, of which manor he had livery, 

in 1207-08 on quit claim of his mother. He died in 1240-40. Bartholomew de Hampden (a descendant of Baldwin de Hampden, who was of note before the Norman invasion) 

married a daughter of Lord William de Fienes." 
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