Catalogue description SAMUEL FINNEY I (c. 1630-1711)

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Title: SAMUEL FINNEY I (c. 1630-1711)
Date: 1681-1705
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 121 docs.
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Samuel Finney, the younger son of John Finney of Finney Green, Dean Row, was born c. 1630. His grandfather, the third son of William Finney of Finney, co.Staff., was the first member of the family to settle in this part of Cheshire, having married Alice Johnson, heiress to property in Dean Row.

 

Samuel Finney became a merchant in Barbadoes in partnership with his cousin, Joseph Higginbotham, and had plantations there. He made a substantial fortune and returned to England in 1681. In 1682 he bought the Fulshaw estate. He pulled down the existing Fulshaw Hall, which was in a ruinous condition, and entirely rebuilt it. This work was finished in 1684 and he lived there from this date until the marriage of his son John in 1693, when he went to live at Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

 

In 1688 Samuel Finney raised a troop of horse in support of William of Orange and in 1701 he went, with William Penn, to America, taking with him his whole family. By 1703 he had been appointed a member of Penn's Council in Pennsylvania. He built a house about 20 miles from Philadelphia and died there in 1711.

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