Hi SiCallear
Following on from your other post about Fielding Best Fynney...........
Ruth Fynney is not too difficult to track down.
I presume you have their marriage entry from the Alstonefield register - it's on FindMyPast, loving transcribed as surname 'Fanny'!
I have submitted a correction. The clerk writes 'Finney', and she signs 'Ruth Fynney". (But bless them for their wide ranging phonics check).
The witnesses are William Fynney and JOhn Green. Ralph Johnsone is from Earl Shilton, Leicestershire.
It clearly states the marriage was by licence.
If you then go to the Lichfield Marriage Bonds and Allegations page
http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/staffordshire-dioceses-of-lichfield-and-coventry-marriage-allegations-and-bonds-1636-1893you are rewarded with the application Ralph Johnsone made - full of information.
He is 21 or over, she is 19 of ALstonefield. Both have been living in ALF. And her father signs to give his permission - indeed William Fynney.
You can them go to familysearch and find Ruth's baptism, and those of 3 siblings including a John, at Alstonefield, father William, mother Elizabeth. Their marriage is also on there - but I'll let you have the fun of that discovery!
(most probably on FindMyPast too but I haven't checked there - cheaper and more easily searched on famsearch).
Hope this helps you a little way down the road.
Still can't tie him in with the other Finneys I know of - mine didn't come to Alstonefield until much later - but as I said on my other post, most probably related somewhere way back!
BY the way, I see BumbleBee couldn't find Fielding Best Fynney's will at Lichfield either - I don't think there must have been one. As I said, he was such a prominent man, and there is so much written about him, that somebody would have found it by now if it did exist.
