When C W Gann was born on 22 February 1911, his father, William Preston Gann, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Adams, was 34. He died on 8 March 1911, at the age of 0, and was buried in Levi Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States.
Irish: shortened form of McGann , from Mag Gana.
German: from the personal name Gano, or, in Austria, a short form of Candidus, a personal name from Latin candidus ‘bright, white, clear, beautiful’ (see Kann ).
German: topographic name for someone who lived near an expanse of scree, Middle High German gant.
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