Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden was born 7 July 1917 in Scranton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States to Ambrose Joseph Finnegan (1884-1957) and Geraldine Catherine Blewitt (1887-1949) and died 8 January 2010 Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States of unspecified causes. She married Joseph Robinette Biden (1915-2002) 30 May 1941 in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Irish Ancestry
Catherine Eugenia (Jean) Finnegan is descended from the Finnegan family from County Louth, close to the border with Northern Ireland. Smolenyak's research suggests that Vice President Joseph Biden's maternal great-great-grandfather, Owen Finnegan, emigrated from the port of Newry, County Down, in 1849. He was among the estimated 2 million people who left Ireland during the Great Famine, which saw nearly one-eighth of the entire population die from starvation and disease. "Owen Finnegan arrived in New York on May 31, 1849, just five weeks after Joseph Kearney, Obama's ancestor," Smolenyak writes on her website. "Curiously, both men were shoemakers."
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (1942) | 20 November 1942 Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States | Neilia Hunter (1942-1972) Jill Tracy Jacobs (1951) | |
| Valerie Biden | |||
| James Biden | |||
| Frank Biden | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Gerard J. Finnegan (1910-1950) | |||
| Blewitt Edward Finnegan (1912-1984) | |||
| Ambrose Joseph Finnegan (1914-1944) | 8 August 1914 Scranton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States | 15 May 1944 At Sea Near Guam, Pacific Ocean | |
| Catherine Eugenia (Jean) Finnegan (1917-2010) | 7 July 1917 Scranton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States | 8 January 2010 Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States | Joseph Robinette Biden (1915-2002) |
| John Arthur Finnegan (1920-1973) | |||
Residences
Vital Records
Gravestone
- Location: Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Cemetery, Greenville, New Castle County, Delaware
See Also
- Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Year: 1920; Census Place: Baltimore Ward 16, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland; Roll: T625_660; Page: 32A; Enumeration District: 277. Image Online.
- Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Year: 1930; Census Place: Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0020; FHL microfilm: 2340024. Image Online.
- Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Year: 1940; Census Place: Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: m-t0627-03687; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 71-154. Image Online.
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1852-1968 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Image Online.
- Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014. <link>
- Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. <link>
- Joe Biden at Find A Grave
- Catherine Finnegan
- Finnegan in New Castle County, Delaware
- Finnegan in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Footnotes (including sources)
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