When Frederick Samuel Canning was born on 9 June 1878, in Guildford, Victoria, Australia, his father, Frederick John Canning, was 24 and his mother, Ann Phillips, was 25. He married Salome Amelia Hunt on 16 April 1906, in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 26 March 1944, in Victoria, Australia, at the age of 65, and was buried in Brighton, Victoria, Australia.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
At the beginning of 1901, following a proclamation by Queen Victoria, Victoria ceased to be an independent colony and became a state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Irish (Derry and Donegal): from Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a personal name likely derived from a diminutive of cano ‘hound, wolf’ (though sometimes misinterpreted as ‘rabbit’).
Irish: alternatively, a shortened form of Ó Canann or Ó Canáin, see Cannon .
English: habitational name from a place in Wiltshire called Cannings, apparently named with the Old English byname Cana (of uncertain origin) + -ingas ‘people of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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