Canavan Family History
Canavan Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceanndubháin
‘descendant of Ceanndubhán’, a byname meaning ‘little
black-headed one’, from ceann ‘head’ + dubh ‘black’ +
the diminutive suffix -án.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canavan
Name Distribution of Canavan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canavan families
 79 - 156  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canavan families
|
22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canavan census records
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Canavan Family Origin
Canavan Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Canavan families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Canavan Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Canavan families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Canavan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Canavan census records
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Military Service by Canavan
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