Canter Family History
Canter Name Meaning
English: from an agent derivative of Anglo-Norman French
cant ‘song’, applied as an occupational name for a singer in a
chantry or a nickname for someone who had a good voice or who sang a
lot.Americanized spelling of Kanter or Kantor.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canter
Name Distribution of Canter Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canter families
 127 - 252  43 - 126 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Canter families
|
78 - 154 27 - 77 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canter families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canter census records
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Canter Family Origin
Canter Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Canter
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Canter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Canter census records
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Canter Civil War Service Records
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