Cantara Family History
Cantara Name Meaning
Spanish and Portuguese (Cántara): from a variant of
cántaro ‘pitcher’, ‘jug’, from Latin cantharus,
probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a jug maker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cantara Families
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Number of Cantara families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cantara Family Origin
Cantara Immigration Information
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Cantara Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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