Brief Life History of Loran D.
When Loran D. Cann was born on 12 February 1837, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Loran D. Cann, was 29 and his mother, Mary Jane Goudey, was 28. He died on 17 July 1868, at the age of 31.
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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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