Kane Family History
Kane Name Meaning
Irish (Ulster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Catháin ‘descendant of Cathán’ (see
O’Kane). Compare Keane.Scottish: reduced
form of McKean.Jewish (Ashkenazic): altered spelling of
Cohen.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant spelling of
Kanne.Probably also an Americanized spelling of
German Köhn (see Kohn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
791,199
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kane
Name Distribution of Kane Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kane families
 190 - 377  64 - 189 |
 1 - 63  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kane families
|
489 - 976 164 - 488 |
1 - 163 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kane census records
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Kane Family Origin
Kane Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kane Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Kane 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
Kane Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kane census records
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Military Service by Kane
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