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Finn, Flynn, Payne, Kirby & McKiernan

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PeteMillington

proper brummie kid
A research document about some of the families in my Brummie family tree including the Finns and Flynns who came from Galway to Newtown in the 19th century after the famine. Plus some of the local families they married such as the Paynes who ran a coach company at Ashted and the Kirby family of Newtown who produced 3 professional boxers. Also the McKiernan family from Dublin who married the Finns of Newtown in the late 1800s, a branch of whom went to Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1900s along with Birmingham Irish families named Robinson and Ratchford.

https://en.calameo.com/read/000675467d08241c2d709

Read also my document about the extended Clayton family here:

https://en.calameo.com/read/00067546759687636e5cf
 
Jack Kirby was one of those boxers Jackie burns and the mcgroaty bros was both Irish boxers along with the Finns
And big Jackie burns and Leo mcgroartie and his brother was both champions and they taught the kids in a gym in heath street in was at one time the GKN
Guest keen and Netlefolds and they trained some good kids for school boy boxing I believe big jack is dead died years ago and the brothers
Run a couple of business in tysley a big one with a club down there is the place they call the truck stop
I am not sure whether paddy Finn is still around we have lost touch with the laser heard of him at the pub in digbeth
Where he disappeared on the grape vine for people whom know him or knew him he as done a moonlight
For reason being I knew paddy when I ran a certain pub in the bull ring way back in time
 
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