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Protesia Catherine Finney (Holdrick) - Evidence that Protesia Holdrick is actually Mother Finney

Started by Brody Finney on Wednesday, August 28, 2019
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Brody Finney
8/28/2019 at 8:20 AM

Is there any reliable source for "Mother" Finney's name being Protesia Holdrick?

Clifford Stott's article in the October 1994 New England Historical and Genealogical Register declares her name to be unknown (page 321).

Per a old thread on Ancestry's Barnstable, Massachusettes board, the source of Holdrick confusion is from an entry in Exeter Marriage Licenses indicating that John Pinny of Exeter married Protesia Holdich on Jan 5., 1620-1. Clearly this can't be "Mother" Finney - John Finney, Robert and Mother's son, was baptized on March 15, 1603/04.

The long distance between Exeter and Lenton would make this connection implausible, even without the Pinny/Finney issue.

The only source for this entry is a Find-A-Grave entry offers no justification for the name and uses only "Mother Finney" in the detail text.

If I'm missing something, please follow up with the source, but it sure looks like the information in this entry is just plain wrong.
Erica Howton C
8/28/2019 at 10:30 AM

Agreed and updated. Thank you for calling attention.
Erica Howton C
8/28/2019 at 10:55 AM

Does anyone know where Sarah Pinney belongs? She’s not of this family, as far as I can tell.
Erica Howton C
8/28/2019 at 11:23 AM

I’m checking the line based on http://www.phinneysplace.com/genealogy/p898.htm#i231

Which is sourced from Clifford L Stott, "The Finney Family of Lenton, Nottinghamshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts"
Erica Howton C
8/28/2019 at 12:14 PM

Can anyone find the family of Sarah Fallowell ?

Brody Finney
8/29/2019 at 7:28 AM

Sarah Fallowell is "Mother" Finney's granddaughter-in-law. Per Stott, Robert and Mother's daughter Katherine married Gabriel Fallowell, probably in England. Their son John Fallowell married Sarah Wood, "dau. of John and Sarah (Masterson) Wood."

I don't have anything else on them, but I would guess that they were documented in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register at some point.
Erica Howton C
8/29/2019 at 6:01 PM

Excellent, added her to her parents (who were also known as Atwood).

Sarah Atwood & Capt. John Atwood

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