Caniglia Family History
- Caniglia Name Meaning
- Southern Italian: from Calabrian caniglia ‘bran’, Sicilian canigghia, so probably a metonymic occupational name for a miller or a cereal grower.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,995 Historical Documents with Caniglia on Ancestry
- 2,655 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,030 Census and Voter Lists
- 379 Military Records
- 734 Immigration Records
- 2,197 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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