Re: Whats is the history behind Cannell?
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Re: Whats is the history behind Cannell?
5/21/01
I am a Cannell by birth but my father always said we were Irish (Lynch/Sullivan lines), English (Skipwiths & Ridgeways), Scottish (Pettigrews perhaps) and French. I haven't found anyone on my lines from France. He always pronounced our name Cannell with the accent on the last syllable. Is that the way Manx Cannells pronounce the name? My earliest Cannell ancestor is Jerome Cannell who married Elizabeth Wa????? in Kent County Maryland on Jan. 1, 1733. I can't trace the line any further back. Does anyone out there have any idea where they might have come from?