When John Wade Cannon was born on 4 March 1954, in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States, his father, George Wade Cannon, was 34 and his mother, Wilma Irene O'Riley, was 35. He died on 24 June 2010, in Colfax, Jasper, Iowa, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery, Newton Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States.
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1919–1988 Male
1918–1987 Female
1954–2010 Male
Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Canann or Ó Canáin ‘descendant of Cano or Canán’. Occasionally, and in the Isle of Man, the surname derives from Mac Canann ‘son of Cano or Canán’, which in Ireland was Anglicized McCann or McConnon . See also Connon . The personal name is from Gaelic cano ‘wolf cub’, of which Canán is a diminutive. In Ulster Cannon may also be shortened from Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a pet form (double diminutive) of the personal name. This was a cheiftan family in Donegal, and the name was particularly common there.
English: from Middle English canun ‘canon’ (Old Norman French canonie, canoine, from Late Latin canonicus). In medieval England this term denoted a clergyman living with others in a clergy house; the surname is mostly an occupational name for a servant in a house of canons, although it could also be a nickname or even a patronymic.
French: variant of Canon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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