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Sarah Finch
b. 1813
Life
Records & Research
Sarah Finch (born ~1813) is plausibly identified as a daughter of George Finch and Elizabeth "Betsy" Pierce of Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, matching the report's stated parents by name. However, identity to THIS Sarah (the one born 1813) is not securely established: the key Geni source (her sister Amanda's profile) rendered blank on fetch (login-gated), so the sibling list including "Sarah Finch" was obtained only via search-engine indexing, and no rendered record confirms Sarah's own birth year of 1813. The supporting WikiTree profile is explicitly unsourced and does not name Sarah at all (it lists only one child, Amanda). No record of Sarah's marriage, death, or burial was found. The parent-name match is suggestive, but because the distinguishing anchor (birth 1813) is unconfirmed and both supporting sources are single, partly inaccessible genealogy profiles, the parentage is treated as likely rather than confirmed pending direct documentation.
Not yet confirmed — probable matches and family lore, shown for research. Treat with caution.
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Sarah Finch was likely a daughter of George Finch and Elizabeth Betsy Pierce (Finch) of Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, matching the report's stated parents (George Finch and Elizabeth Pierce) by name. This rests on a sibling list (incl. a 'Sarah Finch') attributed to the family, but the source does not confirm Sarah's birth year of 1813 and was not directly viewable. likely
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A George Finch (b. 1786, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia) and Elizabeth (Pierce) Finch (1790-1827) are documented as a married couple in Cornwallis, corroborating the existence and location of the report's named parents (but not naming Sarah). unconfirmed
likely mother.birth.date: report “Elizabeth Pierce born 1787 (per report, 1787-1827)” vs. found “WikiTree gives Elizabeth (Pierce) Finch's birth as 2 August 1790 (death 1827)”. Death year 1827 agrees with the report; only the birth year differs (1790 vs 1787). WikiTree profile is flagged as unsourced, so the 1790 date is not authoritative. Minor, within genealogical tolerance.
likely father.birth.date: report “George Finch born 1787 (per report, 1787-1827)” vs. found “WikiTree gives George Finch's birth as 1786 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia”. Off by one year (1786 vs 1787); within normal genealogical tolerance. WikiTree adds a birthplace (Cornwallis, Nova Scotia) absent from the report. Source is unsourced WikiTree.
unconfirmed birth.place: report “Sarah Finch birth place: null (unknown)” vs. found “Family records place this Finch family in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada; siblings (e.g., Amanda, b. 1821) were born there, suggesting Sarah likely was too.”. Birthplace is INFERRED from the family's documented location, not from any record naming Sarah. Since Sarah's own membership in this family is itself only 'likely' (parent-name match, birth year unconfirmed), the inferred birthplace is correspondingly weak. Do not adopt as fact.
Open questions (6)
- Sarah Finch's birth year of 1813 could NOT be confirmed from any directly citable, rendered record. This is the single most important unresolved anchor: without it, the 'Sarah Finch' in the indexed Geni sibling list cannot be securely equated with the report's Sarah (b. 1813), since same-name daughters are common. Confirming 1813 requires the live logged-in Geni/FamilySearch profile or Cornwallis, Nova Scotia township birth records.
- AUDIT NOTE: Finding 1 was downgraded confirmed->likely. The Geni source rendered blank (login-gated) on both the original fetch and a re-fetch during this audit; its sibling list was obtained only via search-engine indexing and lists two parent names from a single page, which do not constitute two independent anchors. It does not render Sarah's birth year.
- AUDIT NOTE: Finding 2 was downgraded likely->unconfirmed. The WikiTree profile is explicitly unsourced, lists only one child (Amanda), and does not name Sarah at all; it cannot establish Sarah's parentage, only corroborate the existence/location of the parent couple.
- No marriage, spouse, death, or burial record was found for this Sarah Finch. Several sisters reportedly took married surnames (Savage, Wright, Kelsey); it is unknown whether Sarah married and under what name she might be recorded.
- Possible same-name caution: a John Washington Finch (1811-1872) FindAGrave memorial appeared in searches but was not verified as a sibling; correctly rejected. A Sarah Finch (Crawford) (c.1827-1912) on Geni is a different person; correctly rejected.
- Next step: verify the live, logged-in Geni profile (or a sourced FamilySearch tree) to (a) confirm a daughter Sarah exists in this family AND (b) confirm her birth year is 1813, before publishing parentage as established.
Sources consulted (6)
- Amanda Wright (Finch) (1821-1848) · genealogy
- Elizabeth (Pierce) Finch (1790-1827) - WikiTree (unsourced; lists only one child, Amanda; does not name Sarah) · genealogy
- Finch Genealogy - WikiTree · genealogy
- John Washington Finch (1811-1872) - Find a Grave (not verified as related; rejected) · grave
- Sarah Finch (Crawford) (c.1827-1912) - Geni (different person; rejected) · genealogy
- Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, record of births, marriages and deaths - FamilySearch catalog (not searched in detail) · reference
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