Finger Family Genealogical DatabaseLast Update 02/20/2021
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| Name Robert Lansing Finger #2361 |
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| Born 10 Mar 1837 |
Place New York |
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| Died abt May 1874 |
Place ?Saugerties, Ulster, New York |
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Found him on the 1850 Saugerties, Ulster, New York census (img 76) as Robert Finger age 12.
Found him on the 1870 Saugerties, Ulster, New York census (img 15) age 32, Ret.- Lumber & Coal. Living with him and his wife is her mother, Rachael Russell, age 60.
Robert was the Chief Engineer of the steamship Evening Star and was one of 17 of the 270 persons on board who survived. His brother Coenrad was also aboard, but did not survive. The Evening Star sank in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia, 185 miiles east of Tybee, in 1866. The ship was en route from New York to New Orleans. - read compiled newspaper articles.
Found him on the 1870 Saugerties, Ulster, New York census (img 15) age 32, Ret.- Lumber & Coal. Living with him and his wife is her mother, Rachael Russell, age 60.
Robert was the Chief Engineer of the steamship Evening Star and was one of 17 of the 270 persons on board who survived. His brother Coenrad was also aboard, but did not survive. The Evening Star sank in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia, 185 miiles east of Tybee, in 1866. The ship was en route from New York to New Orleans. - read compiled newspaper articles.
Robert A. Finger, of Saugerties, died on Monday morning last, at 6 o'clock, from injuries received, it is supposed at the foundering of the steamship Evening Star, of which he was Chief Engineer. - The 'Recorder' Cold Springs, New York c. May 2, 1874
| MICHAEL FINGER 1728
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| Jacob M. Finger 1769 |
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| | MARGARETHA MOSSER 1727
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| Adam Finger 1794 |
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| | Margaret Schaeffer 1769 |
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|- Robert Lansing Finger
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| | Coenradt "Conrad" Lasher 1775 |
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| Jane Lasher 1806 |
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| Maria Saulpaugh |
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