When Harriet Jane Cann was born on 10 December 1834, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Loran D. Cann, was 27 and her mother, Mary Jane Goudey, was 25. She married William Hibbert on 10 April 1859. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 9 August 1869, in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 34, and was buried in Yarmouth, 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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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