Old Photograph John Finnie Street Kilmarnock Scotland

Old photograph of John Finnie Street in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Archibald Finnie and his family lived at Springhill House (now a nursing home) near the Grange Academy. They owned many coal mines, pits and other companies in Springside and other places. John Finnie Street is named after one of the family. The earliest origins of the name Binnie are with the Viking settlers of the early Middle Ages; the surname having come from a place named by the Vikings It is a name for someone who lived in the old barony of Binney, in the parish of Uphall, in the county of West Lothian.



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