When Almira Flint Cann was born on 31 August 1840, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Loran D. Cann, was 33 and her mother, Mary Jane Goudey, was 31. She married Maurice Peters on 23 December 1859, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1905 and lived in Westport, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1881 and Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. She died in January 1932, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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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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