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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canal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:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canal families
 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 Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Canal families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Canal Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Canal census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Canal ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Canal
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