When James H. Cann was born in 1853, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Capt Samuel Cann, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Alice Wyman, was 31. He died in 1874, in his hometown, at the age of 21, and was buried in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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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