Havilah Hall Cann

Brief Life History of Havilah Hall

When Havilah Hall Cann was born on 28 January 1854, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, ALDEN CANN, was 15 and her mother, AMANDA, MARIA SHAW, was 10. She married Robert Hibbard Sr. in 1874, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died in 1919, at the age of 65, and was buried in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Robert Hibbard Sr.
1853–1900
Havilah Hall Cann
1854–about 1919
Marriage: 1874
Robert Hibbard Jr.
1877–1951
Percy Raymond Hibbard
1881–1911

Sources (18)

  • Havila Hibbard, "Canada, Census, 1881"
  • Havilah, "Canada, Nova Scotia, Marriages, 1864-1918"
  • Havila H Goudey, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1890-1955"

World Events (3)

1869

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1871

British Columbia joins the confederation.

1909 · First Canadian Flight

The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.

Name Meaning

English (Devon): habitational name from Cann, a place in Dorset, named from Old English canna ‘can, cup’, used in the transferred sense of a deep valley, or a topographic name from the same word used elsewhere in southwestern England. Alternatively, from Middle English canne ‘can, vessel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name denoting a maker of vessels for holding liquids.

Irish: shortened form of McCann .

Americanized form of German Kann and Kahn .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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