When Joane Cann was christened on 21 July 1657, in North Petherton, Somerset, England, her father, William Cann, was 33 and her mother, Mrs. William Cann, was 30. She married Richard Fry on 6 June 1680, in North Petherton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She was buried in North Petherton, Somerset, England.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
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 .
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