Cannon Family History
Cannon Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Canann or Ó
Canann (Ulster), or Ó Canáin (County Galway) ‘son
(Mac) or descendant (Ó) of Canán’, a personal name
derived from cano ‘wolf cub’. In Ulster it may also be from
Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a
diminutive of the personal name.English: from Middle
English canun ‘canon’ (Old Norman French canonie,
canoine, from Late Latin canonicus). In medieval England
this term denoted a clergyman living with others in a clergy house;
the surname is mostly an occupational name for a servant in a house of
canons, although it could also be a nickname or even a patronymic.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cannon
Name Distribution of Cannon Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cannon families
 587 - 1,172  196 - 586 |
 1 - 195  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cannon families
|
75 - 148 26 - 74 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cannon Family Origin
Cannon Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cannon Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cannon Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cannon census records
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Military Service by Cannon
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