When Florence Cann was born in 1878, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Cann, was 36 and her mother, Mary Ann Chipling, was 31. She married John James Whitby on 14 January 1901, in Wood Green, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in London, England in 1881 and Finchley, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died in December 1961, in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 83.
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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 .
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