Re: Same name
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Re: Same name
5/27/00
I am always curious when a question comes up and there are months before anyone ventures a response---and sometimes there are no responses whatever.Maybe by now you have discovered something very important about our Abr. Finch and his Mother Country.I have found a couple of books very enlightening on the problems with the state of religion in England.One of these is Saints and Strangers by George Willison and the other is The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, edited by Dunn, Savage and Yeandle.
One researcher seemed to feel that Essex was a more likely origin of Abraham and the rest of the Finch folks, based on the great many Finches in that area.In Banks (The Winthrop Fleet of 1630) among thepassengers listed are the four Finch men who are believed to have come in 1630. After their names is the place of origin:Yorkshire, but Banks thinks Essex may be the home of these Finches.
If someone can tie the Finches down to SOMEWHERE in England, it would certainly help hundreds of us Finch descendants.