When James Henry Cann was born on 14 July 1852, in Milton, Yarmouth Town, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Lyman Cann III, was 26 and his mother, Sarah McLarren Locke, was 26. He married Elizabeth Killam on 22 May 1875, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1875. He died on 26 July 1879, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 27, and was buried in Yarmouth Town, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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 .
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