Canning Family History
Canning Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Cannan.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, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canning
Name Distribution of Canning Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canning families
 62 - 121  21 - 61 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Canning families
|
142 - 282 48 - 141 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canning families
|
141 - 279 48 - 140 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canning census records
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Canning Family Origin
Canning Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Canning
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Canning Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Canning census records
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Canning Civil War Service Records
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