When Laura Canning was born on 6 December 1860, in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Canning, was 32 and her mother, Hannah Whitlock, was 29. She married Caesar Stockford on 14 February 1885, in Duns Tew, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and South Hinksey, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died on 6 March 1919, in Abingdon, Hanover, Jamaica, at the age of 58.
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Banana plantations set up as the sugar cane industry declines in the face of competition from European beet sugar.
Island's capital moved from Spanish Town to Kingston.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
Irish (Derry and Donegal): from Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a personal name likely derived from a diminutive of cano ‘hound, wolf’ (though sometimes misinterpreted as ‘rabbit’).
Irish: alternatively, a shortened form of Ó Canann or Ó Canáin, see Cannon .
English: habitational name from a place in Wiltshire called Cannings, apparently named with the Old English byname Cana (of uncertain origin) + -ingas ‘people of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesHannah Gomm Canning daughter of William and Martha Seal Gomm. Born January 3, 1857 in Loxley, Warwickshire, England. She was the only daughter born to her parents. Some nine years later a brother a …
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