Cane Family History
- Cane Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a tall thin man, from Middle English, Old French cane ‘cane’, ‘reed’ (Latin canna). It may also be a topographic name for someone who lived in a damp area overgrown with reeds, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered reeds, which were widely used in the Middle Ages as a floor covering, as roofing material, and for weaving small baskets. Southern Italian: either a habitational name from a place named Canè, in Bescia and Belluna, or more likely an occupational name for a basket maker or the like, from Greek kanna ‘reed’ + the occupational suffix -(e)as. French: Norman and Picard variant of chane a term denoting a particular type of elongated pitcher (ultimately from Latin canna ‘reed’), hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a potter who specialized in making such jugs, or a nickname for someone who resembled one. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Köhn (see Kuehn).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 282,708 Historical Documents with Cane on Ancestry
- 106,025 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 91,069 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,168 Military Records
- 10,057 Immigration Records
- 66,389 Member Trees
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Number of Cane families
 260 - 518  87 - 259 |
 1 - 86  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cane families
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50 - 97 17 - 49 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Cane census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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