Brief Life History of Maria Theresa
When Maria Theresa Cann was born on 3 February 1842, in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, ALDEN CANN, was 3 and her mother, AMANDA, MARIA SHAW, was -2. She married Francis James Patten about 1861, in Nova Scotia, British North America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ohio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 12 March 1884, in Wellington, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 42, and was buried in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Maria Patten in household of Frank Patten, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Maria Cann, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
- Moria Cann in entry for Frank Patton, "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"
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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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