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Does anyone know the origin of the last name Cannon? I've heard that it may be Scottish or Irish? I've also read that it may be derived from McCannon? Does anyone know for sure?
~ Wunderkind_Princess
I am a magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment.
I am a Wunderkind, oooh.
I am a Joan of Arc and smart enough to believe this.
I am a Princess on the way to my throne.
Destined to serve, destined to rule.
~ From "Wunderkind" by Alanis Morissette
~ Wunderkind_Princess
I am a magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment.
I am a Wunderkind, oooh.
I am a Joan of Arc and smart enough to believe this.
I am a Princess on the way to my throne.
Destined to serve, destined to rule.
~ From "Wunderkind" by Alanis Morissette
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Cannon
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Canann or Ó Canann (Ulster), or Ó Canáin (County Galway) ‘son (Mac) or descendant (Ó) of Canán’, a personal name derived from cano ‘wolf cub’. In Ulster it may also be from Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a diminutive of the personal name.
English: from Middle English canun ‘canon’ (Old Norman French canonie, canoine, from Late Latin canonicus). In medieval England this term denoted a clergyman living with others in a clergy house; the surname is mostly an occupational name for a servant in a house of canons, although it could also be a nickname or even a patronymic.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Canann or Ó Canann (Ulster), or Ó Canáin (County Galway) ‘son (Mac) or descendant (Ó) of Canán’, a personal name derived from cano ‘wolf cub’. In Ulster it may also be from Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a diminutive of the personal name.
English: from Middle English canun ‘canon’ (Old Norman French canonie, canoine, from Late Latin canonicus). In medieval England this term denoted a clergyman living with others in a clergy house; the surname is mostly an occupational name for a servant in a house of canons, although it could also be a nickname or even a patronymic.
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