Finney Family History
Finney Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Cheshire
called Finney or from Fenay in West Yorkshire, probably named from Old
English finig ‘heap’ (especially one of wood), or from Old
English and Old Norse finn ‘coarse grass’ + (ge)hæg
‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Finney Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Finney families
 100 - 198  34 - 99 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Finney families
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362 - 721 121 - 361 |
1 - 120 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Finney families
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20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Finney Family Origin
Finney Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Finney
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Finney Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Finney Civil War Service Records
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