Brief Life History of Cynthia
When Cynthia Cann was born about 1822, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Josiah C. Cann, was 25 and her mother, Sophia McKenna, was 21. She married Titus Lovett in 1848, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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1823
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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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