Finger Family Genealogical DatabaseLast Update 07/16/2019

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Name
Johann Henrich Finger   #5000
 Suffix
 Sex
M
 Family Line
JO1803
Born
6 Oct 1803
 Place
Beckum, Westfalen, Preussen
Source
Died
15 Aug 1885
 Place
New York
Source
     approx. age 82


Buried

Father
Johan Bernard Finger -   #5021
Mother
Anna Gertrud Nieman -    #5022

Spouse
Margaret Gertrud Scholholz 1813-1901   #5015
 Date
1831
 Place
Sankt Stephen Katholisch, Beckum Stadt, Westfalen, Preusen
 Source
  1  Gertrude Mary Finger 16 Aug 1838
  2  Henry Finger 12 Jul 1842
  3  Frederick William Finger 3 Mar 1845

Spouse 2
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Spouse 3
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Found him on the 1860 New York Ward 20, New York, New York census (dist 3 img 124) as Henry Finger age 50, butcher.

Found him on the 1880 Manhattan, New York, New York census (dist 673 img 1) age 75, living with his daughter Gertrude and her husband George Eberle.

Born 1797 on headstone. Various Census records compute 1799-1805.

Birthplace from passenger arrival record into Port of Baltimore:
"Henry Finger, Beckum, farmer, 31"
Next passenger: "Gertrud Finger, Beckum, farmer, 20"
On the Ship Gustav, arriving in Baltimore from Bremen on 15th October 1836
Passenger record found by Bill Bilkey on ancestry.com

He moved from Baltimore to New York around January, 1843.

Naturalization record:
Superior Court, New York County
Oct. 24, 1844
Heinrich Finger
Prussian 


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