Only child, born in the south-Dublin suburb of Rathmines, Ireland to Thomas Allen Finlay and Evangeline McAffee on 20 August 1889. Name listed on Irish Birth Registration was Maria Isabel, but seems to have become Myra. She lived at home with her parents, working as a music teacher and singing with a Dublin Opera Company until her marriage to William Charles Armstrong at the Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland in June 1915. The marriage announcement notes that she was the granddaughter of Winlsow Finlay M.D., from County Cavan, Ireland. Winslow had been trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in London and was a respected medical officer in the Union Workhouse in Bawnboy, Cavan. She and her husband lived in Dublin until 1919-1921 having born three children there prior to relocating with her husband and family to Sligo County, Ireland and the little town of Tullylynn. Following the death of her mother, who had been living with them in 1926 and the death of her father-in-law that same year she and her husband made plans to immigrate to the U.S. Her husband, W.C. Armstrong, went ahead of the family, in August of 1927, to Orange County, California. She with her, by then, six children left Cobh, Ireland on October 23rd and arrived in New York the 1st of November. Then by train to California. She had one more child, who was born in Orange, California. She and her family lived on a five acre citrus grove in the City of Orange on Esplanade St. and later on property on Collins Ave. near the Santiago Creek, also in Orange. She was a music director at Trinity Episcopal Church in Orange, where she and her husband attended services. She passed in 1969, preceeded in death by her son Charles Finlay Armstrong. Her husband, William Charles (W.C.), died in 1976 and they are buried beneath a common headstone in Melrose Abby Memorial Park, Anaheim, Orange County, California.

Bio by: Roger Fitschen, grandson