Canning Family History
Canning Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Cannan.English: habitational name
from a place in Wiltshire called Cannings, apparently named with the
Old English byname Cana (of uncertain origin) + -ingas
‘people of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canning
Name Distribution of Canning Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canning families
 142 - 282  48 - 141 |
 1 - 47  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canning families
|
141 - 279 48 - 140 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canning census records
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Canning Family Origin
Canning Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Canning Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Canning families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Canning Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Canning census records
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Military Service by Canning
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