Cantarella Family History
- Cantarella Name Meaning
- aphetic form of Alcàntara, a topographic name for someone who lived by running water, from Arabic form al qantarah ’the river’. from a diminutive of cantaro ’night pot’, presumably applied as a derogatory nickname. perhaps from a derivative of cantare ‘to sing’ (compare Cantore).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,072 Historical Documents with Cantarella on Ancestry
- 1,434 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 919 Census and Voter Lists
- 191 Military Records
- 558 Immigration Records
- 970 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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