Re: Donegal/Glasgow CANNINGS
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Donegal/Glasgow CANNINGS
Iain Canning 11/06/03
?Hello Iain,
Could you check your research please to see if you show a Cornelius Canning born about May 10, 1878, in Donegal?He may have been known as Neil Canning or Cannon.
My father said his father Cornelius was born in the same town his mother was, which was Glen in County Donegal.However, we have nothing to verify this.Cornelius
supposedly came to the U.S. in 1897 & settled in Philadelphia where he married Mary O’Donnell in 1901 & had my father & 6 other children.My father, who died in 1989,
always said he knew nothing else about his father’s family.However, in going through some papers Pop kept (but obviously forgot about), we found the following obituary without a date.The obituary was cut from a newspaper so that only the obituary shows on one side & the type on the back is apparently an entertainment page of the newspaper.It looks very much like a British or Scottish newspaper judging by the entertainment page.The obituary is for Elizabeth Canning & says:"CANNING--In loving memory of Elizabeth Canning (beloved wife of Charles Canning), who died on 5th December, 1930, at 267 High Street, Glasgow.--R.I.P.This is a day of remembrance/And one of sad regrets;/This day we shall always remember;/When the rest of the world forgets.Inserted by her sorrowing husband and daughter."The advertising on the reverse says "Lyric Theatre, Sauciehall St., & above that 2 shows:"A Night in Montmartre" & Hugh Wakefield in "The Man They Couldn't Arrest."We have speculated that Pop found the clipping among his father’s things when Cornelius died in 1933 & that this Charles Canning is somehow related.
To the best of our knowledge Cornelius was Catholic-–his wife was & the children were brought up Catholic, but again, we don’t know for sure.Pop’s mother died when he, the eldest, was 14 & so he & his siblings were parceled out among the O’Donnell relatives--no one kept any records on the Cannings that we can find.The Philadelphia marriage record, church records, & census records are not very helpful & sometimes conflict.Nowhere can we find a middle name for him either!Any record in your Canning research?