The name of the wife of Robert Finney of Lenton, Nottinghamshire remains unknown. She emigrated to the Plymouth Colony with sons John and Robert and daughters Katherine and Anne in the late 1630s. The only known contemporary documentation does not give her name: notice of her 1650 death in the Plymouth records reads "Mother ffeney aged fourscore yeares and upward Died the 22cond of aprell."
Much more is known about her children and husband's family from records in Plymouth and Lenton. See Clifford Stott's article "The Finney Family of Lenton, Nottinghamshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts," found in volume 148 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (pages 315-327), for details and extensive citations.
Per the Stott article, she married Robert Finney circa 1595 and had six known children with him: Katherine, Joyce, Anne, John, Robert, and another Anne. Her husband likely died en route to the new world. The first documentation of her descendants in Plymouth indicates that they were present on December 24, 1638, when her grandson John, the son of John and Christian Finney was born. The baptism of her granddaughter Margaret (John's daughter) was recorded in the Lenton registers on July 20, 1637. Assuming the family traveled together, this limits the time of emigration to 1637 or 1638.
Internment on Burial Hill seems to be merely a logical assumption due to the date and location of her death.
Much more is known about her children and husband's family from records in Plymouth and Lenton. See Clifford Stott's article "The Finney Family of Lenton, Nottinghamshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts," found in volume 148 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (pages 315-327), for details and extensive citations.
Per the Stott article, she married Robert Finney circa 1595 and had six known children with him: Katherine, Joyce, Anne, John, Robert, and another Anne. Her husband likely died en route to the new world. The first documentation of her descendants in Plymouth indicates that they were present on December 24, 1638, when her grandson John, the son of John and Christian Finney was born. The baptism of her granddaughter Margaret (John's daughter) was recorded in the Lenton registers on July 20, 1637. Assuming the family traveled together, this limits the time of emigration to 1637 or 1638.
Internment on Burial Hill seems to be merely a logical assumption due to the date and location of her death.
The name of the wife of Robert Finney of Lenton, Nottinghamshire remains unknown. She emigrated to the Plymouth Colony with sons John and Robert and daughters Katherine and Anne in the late 1630s. The only known contemporary documentation does not give her name: notice of her 1650 death in the Plymouth records reads "Mother ffeney aged fourscore yeares and upward Died the 22cond of aprell."
Much more is known about her children and husband's family from records in Plymouth and Lenton. See Clifford Stott's article "The Finney Family of Lenton, Nottinghamshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts," found in volume 148 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (pages 315-327), for details and extensive citations.
Per the Stott article, she married Robert Finney circa 1595 and had six known children with him: Katherine, Joyce, Anne, John, Robert, and another Anne. Her husband likely died en route to the new world. The first documentation of her descendants in Plymouth indicates that they were present on December 24, 1638, when her grandson John, the son of John and Christian Finney was born. The baptism of her granddaughter Margaret (John's daughter) was recorded in the Lenton registers on July 20, 1637. Assuming the family traveled together, this limits the time of emigration to 1637 or 1638.
Internment on Burial Hill seems to be merely a logical assumption due to the date and location of her death.
Much more is known about her children and husband's family from records in Plymouth and Lenton. See Clifford Stott's article "The Finney Family of Lenton, Nottinghamshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts," found in volume 148 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (pages 315-327), for details and extensive citations.
Per the Stott article, she married Robert Finney circa 1595 and had six known children with him: Katherine, Joyce, Anne, John, Robert, and another Anne. Her husband likely died en route to the new world. The first documentation of her descendants in Plymouth indicates that they were present on December 24, 1638, when her grandson John, the son of John and Christian Finney was born. The baptism of her granddaughter Margaret (John's daughter) was recorded in the Lenton registers on July 20, 1637. Assuming the family traveled together, this limits the time of emigration to 1637 or 1638.
Internment on Burial Hill seems to be merely a logical assumption due to the date and location of her death.
