Finnikin Family SagaUpdated June 25, 2002 |
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| Whether your surname is spelt FINNIKIN , FINIKIN, FINAKIN, FINIGAN or any variation of, if you are Jamaican or of Jamaican descent, then this Home Page is for you. Ever since I was a little girl I have wanted to find out about my heritage. It was my Father who sparked off this interest as he always expressed this wish to know more about this past. With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, this dream is now becoming a reality. When I first started this project approximately three years ago, I only knew my immediate family here in England, which did not consist of many individuals. Now I have found more branches of my family throughout England and I also have the privledge of being in contact with several family members from Jamaica, Canada and USA. Without the willing contribution of many of these new found family members, this project would have foundered from the start. You have eagerly submitted the relevant information needed to map our family genealogy, both past and present, giving dates and places of birth/death and the names of extended family members. To you all I give a special Thank You. There is still much work I would like to do as regards our past, namely to trace our Irish and African heritage. This phase of the project maybe extremely difficult as records could be long since lost due to natural disasters over time such as in Jamaica, hurricanes, floods and slave uprisings and in Ireland a fire in the Irish Public Record Office in 1922 during the Civil War destroyed many precious records forever. A special Thank You has to be given to Patricia Jackson, a Jamaica Genealogist based in California, USA, who found all of the earliest documents on our family dating back to the 1750's starting with Dr James Finnucane [pronounced Fin.oo.cun] who lived with this wife Barbary in Lucea, Hanover. It is highly likely that James came from Ireland as Finnucane is an Irish surname, but I have not been able to confirm this yet. I will endeavour to keep on looking. Of particular interest is the mentioned of Elizabeth Evans a "free mulatto" who married Lt Col Edmund Finnucane, one of the two sons of Dr James Finnucane. I have not even begun looking into her past, but I am hoping to find records that will trace her roots back to Africa. We will see the results of these searches as time goes by. Keep on sending in comprehensive family information and let us watch our roots grow. From one man, James Finnucane, I now have the names of well over 200 men, women and children of his descendants, namely US. This is only the tip of our very large family. Godspeed to us all. |
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