Old Photograph John Finnie Street Kilmarnock Scotland

Old photograph of John Finnie Street in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. The construction of the street was authorized by an Act of Parliament in 1802. The street is named after John Finnie, born 1790, died 1875, a wealthy cotton merchant and philanthropist born in Kilmarnock. Though he spent much of his life in Brazil and England, he underwrote the £8,000 cost for the street's construction and personally purchased Langlands House to clear the route. 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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