Brief Life History of Harriet Edna
When Harriet Edna Cann was born in 1857, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Josiah Cann, was 38 and her mother, Abigail Durkee, was 43. She married Hezediah Porter Crosby on 23 July 1875, in Deerfield, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. She lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died on 10 July 1908, in Port Maitland, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 51, and was buried in Port Maitland, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Harriet Cann, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Legacy NFS Source: Harriet Edna Cann - Government record: birth: 1857; Nova Scotia, Canada
- Hattie E. Cann, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
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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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