Finney Family History & Genealogy

Jane Finney of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania United States was born on April 4, 1816 in Elizabeth, and died at age 36 years old on January 26, 1853 in Mansfield, OH.

James P Finney of Mount Pleasant, Ohio United States was born on February 27, 1837 in Mount Pleasant to William S Finney and Jane Patterson Finney. He was in a relationship with Elizabeth (Short) Finney, and had a child William Herbert Finney. James Finney died at age 81 years old on August 16, 1918 in Pretty Prairie, KS.

William S Finney of Ohio United States was born on December 17, 1807. He was in a relationship with Jane Patterson Finney, and had a child James P Finney. William Finney died at age 69 years old on December 7, 1877.

Elizabeth (Short) Finney of Ashland, Ohio United States was born on May 8, 1841 in Ashland. She was in a relationship with James P Finney, and had a child William Herbert Finney. Elizabeth Finney died at age 75 years old in 1916.

William Finney of Manhattan, Kansas United States was born on March 2, 1869 in Manhattan to James P Finney and Elizabeth (Short) Finney. He was in a relationship with Susannah Bell Finney, and had a child Minette E (Finney) Harrouff. William Finney died at age 62 years old in 1931.

Susannah Finney of Stuart, Iowa United States was born on August 25, 1883 in Stuart. She was in a relationship with William Herbert Finney, and had a child Minette E (Finney) Harrouff. Susannah Finney died at age 43 years old in 1926.

Minette E (Finney) Harrouff was born on July 29, 1903 in Beloit, Kansas United States to William Herbert Finney and Susannah Bell Finney. She married Ray Harrouff, and had children Mary Elaine (Harrouff) and James Ray Harrouff. Minette Harrouff died at age 78 years old on November 14, 1981 in Emporia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Minette E (Finney) Harrouff.

Albert Finney was born on May 9, 1936, in Salford, near Manchester in northwest England, the third child and first son of Alice Hobson, who left school at age 14 to work in a mill, and Albert Finney Sr., who made his living running bets on horse racing. The family lived at first in a rowhouse — the familiar cramped accommodation of the working classes in a region where the Industrial Revolution had spread a patina of grime, grit, and pollution over back-to-back homes separated by cobbled alleyways and streets. Overshadowed by the nearby northern metropolis of Manchester, Salford was known as a factory town and inland port, and its docklands became a target for German bombers during World War II. In 1941, when Mr. Finney was 5 years old, the family was bombed out of its rowhouse and moved to a genteel home across town. Mr. Finney starred with Julia Roberts in “Erin Brockovich,” Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 tale of a power company pollution scandal. He played a pugnacious lawyer who hires the crusading title character (Ms. Roberts), and was again nominated for an Oscar. “Though Finney himself would later come to personify the working-class hero in several of his earliest roles,” Mr. Falk wrote, the move to a new area “confirmed a strictly lower-middle-class status for a family who was never really less than comfortably off.” As a high school student at Salford Grammar School, Mr. Finney displayed both a liking for the theater and a poor grasp of academic subjects. A teacher suggested that he apply to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art — Britain’s premier acting school, usually known as RADA — where he auditioned in 1953 and won a scholarship. By 20, he had completed his course at RADA and was playing parts in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” at a repertory theater in Birmingham, in the English Midlands. He went on to play Henry V in the play of the same name — one of many Shakespearean roles that established his reputation on the stage. Besides Shakespeare, he had leading roles in plays by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, August Strindberg and John Osborne. Mr. Finney met Jane Wenham, a fellow actor, in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1957. The couple married and had a son, Simon, who became a film technician. They divorced in 1961. Mr. Finney married the French actress Anouk Aimée in 1970. They divorced in 1978. He married Pene Delmage, a travel specialist, in 2006. He is survived by his wife, his son and two grandchildren. The low-budget “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” filmed on location in Nottingham and at Twickenham Studios, was Mr. Finney’s big break. Three years later, the critical and box-office success of “Tom Jones,” which won three Oscars including best picture, made him a millionaire at the age of 27. He took a 10-month break to travel the world for much of 1964. As Mr. Finney’s career unfolded, movies overlapped with stage plays. He appeared in the musical films “Scrooge” in 1970 and “Annie” in 1982, for which he shaved his head to play Daddy Warbucks. He made his American television debut in the role of Pope John Paul II in 1984. “I often wondered why I am an actor,” Mr. Finney told a television interviewer in 1962. He then seemed to answer the question, speaking of the profession as a very public form of escape. “I think I am always watching and balancing, and sort of tabulating my own emotions,” he said. “And the only way I can lose myself is when I’m acting.”

Lorenzo Finney was born on March 1, 2022 in Hot Springs, Arkansas United States to Mary Brenda Cheyenne Briner Willis and Jeson Finney, and has a sister Tatia Amariee Finney. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lorenzo Finney.

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Tatia Amariee Finney was born on November 5, 2017 in Hot Springs, Arkansas United States to Mary Brenda Cheyenne Briner Willis and Jeson Finney, and has a brother Lorenzo Finney. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Tatia Amariee Finney.

Roberta (Finney) Wydermyer was born to (unknown) Finney in Tennessee. Her mother's maiden name was Collins. Roberta Finney married Billy Wydermyer. In June of 1983, she told Billy that she was going out for nasal spray at a nearby convenience store and asked him if he would like some cigarettes. Billy fell asleep on the couch and when he woke up the next morning, he saw that Roberta had never come home. Later, her body was found in her burning car, in the trunk. She had been shot. Then began the long journey of convicting the killer or was he the real murderer? Read the twists and turns of the investigation and an April 2023 update on what eventually happened at Maurice Hastings - Roberta Wydermyer Case. Another update, from October of 2022, identified the real murderer. See Man convicted of 1983 murder cleared.

Rex G Finney was born on July 6, 1909 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States, and died at age 80 years old on December 19, 1989. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rex G Finney.

Anne (Finney) King was born on August 4, 1611 in England United Kingdom. She was in a relationship with Samuel King Sr., and had a child Samuel King Jr.. Anne King died at age 76 years old on May 4, 1688 in Plymouth, Massachusetts United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anne (Finney) King.

Dale Edward Finney is the son of Parley D. Finney (1893-1978) and Emma M. Douglass (1894-1939). He was born on Jnauary 12, 1916 in Muskegon County, Michigan. He had another father figure in the family, his step father, Charles L Sutton (1883-1951).

Dale Clinton Finney was born on June 16, 1913 in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, USA to parents Warner W Finney (1888-1972) and Idela P Weaver (1890-1934). He had siblings Jeston Ailene (1910-2006), Felix Clayton (1916-1967), Preston (1921-1992), and Boyd William Finney (1933-2016). They grew up in Franklin, Tennessee, USA. He joined the US military on February 27, 1942 and served in the Army until his discharge date of Christmas Eve (Dec 24) 1943. Dale was married to Beulah Mae Hammonds (1925-2014) and they had a son, Roger Dale Finney who did not survive (1944-1944).

Dale Arnon Finney was born on June 14, 1924 in Glasgow, Valley, Montana, USA. He was the son of Delbert Finney (1878-1952) and Jennie May Pontious (1882-1947). Dale had siblings Wilber Clayton, Howard Alton, Russell Owen, Lucile Irene, Lawson Summers, Harry Elias, Ruth Margaret, and Viola Belle Finney. He married Ruth Elizabeth Morton (1925-2006) on January 18, 1943 in Vancouver, Washington. They had a daughter together, Janice Carmen Cecil, and then later divorced on September 9, 1950 in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, USA.

Robert L Finney Jr. of Bridgeport, Belmont County, OH was born on January 8, 1928, and died at age 81 years old on May 21, 2009.

Edward B Finney of Paragould, Greene County, AR was born on September 8, 1926, and died at age 72 years old on November 30, 1998.

Edward N Finney of Powhatan, Powhatan County, VA was born on October 16, 1914, and died at age 75 years old in March 1990.