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Cant: Origin, Geographical Distribution
Local. From the County Kent, in England. Camden derives this from camion, a corner, because England in this place stretches itself into a corner to the north-east. Cant, in Welsh, signifies, round, circular, which is probably the true signification.
Cant Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : CANNE | CANN | CANT | CANE | LANCHEC | CANESAN
Cant: Place of Origin :  Grampian (United Kingdom) |  Lothian (United Kingdom) |  Tayside (United Kingdom) |  Nottinghamshire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Fifeshire (United Kingdom)
Cant: Online Family Trees
CANT Kent (Kent, England, United Kingdom) 1483 - 1483
CANT Fulham (United Kingdom) 1940 - 1940
CANT Surrey (Surrey, England, United Kingdom) 1960 - 1960
CANT Scotland (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1725 - 1725
CANT Kent (Kent, England, United Kingdom) 1483 - 1483
CANT Barrowby, Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom) 1827 - 1827
CANT Bassingham, Lincs (Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom) 1759 - 1759
CANT Grantham (Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom) 1793 - 1793
CANT Grantham, Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom) 1786 - 1835
CANT Leicestershire (Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom) 1838 - 1838

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Cant: Famous Genealogies
CLERY Jean-Baptiste
CLERY Jean-Baptiste born CANT HANET Jean-Baptiste (1759 - 1809)
Personal valet to King Louis XVI
Cant: Books that contain this surname
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CANTDictionary of national biography (Volume 47)
Author: Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904 - Published in 1885
... in 1744, Isobel, daughter of Ludovic Cant of Thurstan. By her he had two sons and several daughters. The elder ...
CANTPortrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin ..
Author: Acme Publishing Company, Chicago. pbl - Published in 1890
... Miss Agnes Laing, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Cant) Laing, who came with their famiij- to America in the spring ...
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