Canal Family History
Canal Name Meaning
Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese: habitational name from any of
numerous places named with canal ‘channel’, ‘conduit’, from
Latin canalis.Spanish (Cañal) and Portuguese:
habitational name from a place named with Spanish cañal,
Portuguese canal ‘reedbed’, a derivative of Latin canna
‘reed’.Italian: variant of Canale.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canal
Name Distribution of Canal Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canal families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Canal families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canal families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canal census records
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Canal Family Origin
Canal Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Canal families immigrated
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Canal
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Canal Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Canal census records
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Canal Civil War Service Records
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