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William Finch
b. c.1791 South Carolina, United States 1 m. 8 Jan 1832 Campbell County, Georgia, United States 2 d. Btw 1880 and 1900 in Alabama, United States 3 Lucinda Canady b. 4 Apr 1810 5 Children: Mary born c. 1834 John W. born c. 1836 Sarah born c. 1838 Margaret Missouri (click her name to see her profile page) Fredonia born c. 1845 Christopher C. born c. 1847, probably never married. He is always single on Censuses. As I mentioned on Margaret Missouri Finch's page, a friend and fellow researcher sent the following email Feb. 2013 (emphasis added):
I created the web page you're reading now to help explain where the name Thompson fits in. In a nutshell, it doesn't fit in. In the course of family history research we propogate errors for years then discover facts -- sometimes decades later. The internet age gives errors a life of their own in spite of our best efforts. Over the years I've been asked by at least 3 or more researchers where the name "Thompson" came from. It came from a pedigree in Maud McLure Kelly's research. My dad had similar pedigrees from Maud. However, the error was NOT Maud's fault. For a PDF file showing this hand written pedigree (which you can view, download, and post where you please), CLICK HERE. Source of the error Maud created the pedigree for my grandfather Oakley Vincent or his descendants. My dad had a pedigree from Maud. The error in Lucinda's surname on the pedigree may originate from interviews with Oakley and Oma, my paternal grandparents. There were Thompsons in my grandmother's family. The Ancestral File database was created by my church in 1983. This was one of the earliest AND largest family history databases in existance. About 1994, I eagerly uploaded my Vincent pedigree, complete with errors, to this database. In the 20 years since then, it has been used as a source and copied countless times. Today this error can be found in many family trees all over the internet. Lucinda Finch was a Canady NOT a Thompson There is much evidence to prove it. - Lucinda's marriage record from Georgia, her birth state, gives her name as "Keneday" and "Kenedy." - The 1880 Census has a 52-year-old "sister-in-law" (probably William's, not Christopher's) named "Mary A. Kennedy." - According to Cousin Faye's research, Samantha Duke, in whose household Lucinda was living in 1900, was the granddaughter of Lucinda's sister, Elizabeth Canady. - Most researchers believe Lucinda was a Canady, not a Thompson. - The "Thompson" surname has never shown up as a maiden name for Lucinda in any records in the 25 years or so since this error was first recorded. If anyone has recorded Lucinda's maiden name as "Thompson", I am the source of that error. Please change it to Canady or remove it. I don't expect the dozens of erroneous family trees to all be corrected but I hope records on Findagrave.com, Ancestry.com, Wikitree.com, Familysearch.org's Family Tree, and others of importance will be corrected. Source Links: 1- See William's estimated age on each census. They all approximate his date of birth for either 1791 or 1792. A comparison list of censuses is below. 2- Image of Marriage Record for William Finch and Lucinda Canady (Keneday, Kenedy, etc.). CLICK HERE for a Transcript. 3- William was still living at age 88 on the 1880 Census. Lucinda says she was married for 70 years then widowed on the 1900. Some genealogies say William died in 1881 but they give no source for his death record. Other Sources: CLICK HERE for a Comparison List of Census Records for William and Lucinda for 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, & 1900. (Thanks to Cousin Faye for the tip on where to find the 1900 Census) For an Image Copy of each Census, Click the date. CAUTION: Slow downloading. Please be aware that each Census filesize is between 5 and 6 Megabytes. An email between me [Ron.V] Cousin Faye and Kim about Margaret's mother, Lucinda (lots of info on Finch & Canady) |