Canepa Family History
Canepa Name Meaning
Italian: from cànepa ‘hemp’, from Latin cannabis,
a plant cultivated for its strong fibrous stems, which were used to
make rope and canvas, hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower
or seller of hemp or of articles made from it, a topographic name for
someone who lived in an area where the plant was grown, or a
habitational name from Canèpa in Genoa province.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canepa
Name Distribution of Canepa Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canepa families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canepa families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canepa census records
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Canepa Family Origin
Canepa Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Canepa Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Canepa census records
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Military Service by Canepa
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