There is little information about Henery Finch and even less for Catherine, the wife of Henery. Unlike Henery, we do not even know the unmarried name of Catherine who stands in for many women about whom we know little.
The image used for Catherine is of an older and slightly infirm woman although we can speculate that she was probably not of great age and possibly died prematurely from child birth. This is a speculative statement as we have no records for Catherine herself.
I suggest that Catherine and Henery were of the yeoman level of society because in later records held by the Lancashire record Office we find other people with the name of “Finche” in Standish and Shevington being ‘yeoman’ and being associated with local personalisities who had money and resources.
Catherine is not likely to have been a wealthy woman although she may have been above the ‘common sort and able to have some security and possibly a servant or so.
However, Catherine is a person who is a shadowy figure and someone who is “Unknown”. In many ways
This “Unknown” as it relates to Catherine is apparent in family history in this period.
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