FINNEY

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KATHERINE FINNEY

Parents: Robert Finney

Katherine Finney married Gabriel Fallowell.

ROBERT FINNEY

Parents:

Robert Finneyis in the Plymouth section of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [Ref]

Children of Robert Finney:

  1. Katherine Finney married Gabriel Fallowell.
  2. Robert Finney. Gabriel mentions his brother Robert Finney in his will of 14 Oct 1667. [Ref]
  3. John Finney married "Sister Coggin" on 9 Jul 1650 in Barnstable. [Ref] She was Abigail (Bishop) Cogan, the daughter of Thomas and Avis (Abbott) Bishop of Bridport, co. Dorset and the widow of Henry Cogan, brother of Frances Cogan. [Ref] He is in the Plymouth section of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [Ref] He was admitted to inhabit Barnstable in 1662/6. [Ref]

References:

Hamblin, David, trans. "The First Settlers of Barnstable," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1848, 64-67.

McCracken, George E., 'Early Cogans English and American,' New England Historical and Genealogical Register 110, 1956, 185-201, 258-276; 111, 1957, 5-18, 84-91, 168-187.

Otis, Amos, trans., "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9, 1855, 279-287; 10,1856, 37-43, 345-351.

Winsor, Justin, "Abstract of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, various issues.