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Joseph Francis Finnie, b.1887 at Scissett

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jax

jax Report 24 Nov 2011 00:34

Name: Joseph Finnie
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1887
Registration district: Huddersfield
Inferred County: Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire
Volume: 9a
Page: 294 (click to see others on page)

banni1

banni1 Report 24 Nov 2011 00:22

My great uncle, Joseph Francis Finnie, was born at Scissett, near Huddersfield, in 1887. But he seems to have disappeared from the public record in 1911, when that year's census described him as a 24 year old gardener working at Mentmore Towers, in Buckinghamshire. There is a possibility that he went to the United States or Canada, and may have married out there. A member of the Finnie family ran the Four Provinces bar in Washington. He could be Joseph or related to Joseph. Joseph's parents were Andrew and Margaret Finnie, both from Sligo though they married in England and lived at Scissett and Skelmanthorpe. Joseph Francis Finnie's siblings included my grandfather, Bernard Joseph Finnie, born in 1890 at Nortonthorpe, Scissett, Yorkshire. I would be very grateful if anyone can find out what happened to Joseph Francis Finnie. Did he emigrate to the US? Did he marry? And when and where did he die?
Best wishes
Nick Bannister
PS: I find it strange that two boys in the same family, born within 4 years of each other, both shared the Christian name Joseph, albeit one of them having it as their second Christian name!