Shannon Family History
Shannon Name Meaning
reduced form of Shanahan.reduced Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó Seanáin ‘descendant of
Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of
seán ‘old’.in County Clare, a reduced Anglicized form
of Mac Giolla tSeanáin ‘son of the servant of St.
Seanán’. In the Irish midlands Leonard and
Nugent have been adopted as equivalents of this name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shannon
Name Distribution of Shannon Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shannon families
 366 - 730  123 - 365 |
 1 - 122  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shannon families
|
246 - 490 83 - 245 |
1 - 82 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shannon families
|
138 - 273 47 - 137 |
1 - 46 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shannon Family Origin
Shannon Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Shannon
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Shannon Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Shannon Civil War Service Records
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