Canton Family History
Canton Name Meaning
Galician (Cantón): habitational name from places in
Lugo and Pontevedra provinces, in Galicia, named Cantón, from a
derivative of canto ‘corner’ (see Canto).Southern French: topographic name, from Occitan canton
‘corner’, ‘angle’, denoting someone who lived on a street corner.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Canton
Name Distribution of Canton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Canton families
 33 - 63  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Canton families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Canton census records
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Canton Family Origin
Canton Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Canton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Canton
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