History, in context.
Explore curated accounts of people, places, and documents. Each account retains its sources and unanswered questions.
Archival research resource: Delaware Public Archives digital ancestry research collections
Source guide for researchers investigating Cann and related family history. The linked archive page is accessible, but it does not by itself establish an ancestral relationship or historical event.
Enter exhibition ↗Archival research resource: Delaware Public Archives — Collections Gateway entry for Recorder of Deeds / land-record access
Source guide for researchers investigating Cann and related family history. The linked archive page is accessible, but it does not by itself establish an ancestral relationship or historical event.
Enter exhibition ↗Archival research resource: Recorder of Deeds, New Castle County — agency history and recordkeeping note
Source guide for researchers investigating Cann and related family history. The linked archive page is accessible, but it does not by itself establish an ancestral relationship or historical event.
Enter exhibition ↗Cann, Dorset: The Village and the Name
A historic parish adjoining Shaftesbury, with medieval associations, a church and surviving early-modern registers. Its relationship to the American Cann line remains an open research question.
Enter exhibition ↗England, a surname, and several possible beginnings
Cann parish, Bristol and Gloucestershire offer research paths. A place name or shared surname is not proof of descent.
Enter exhibition ↗From Delaware into the nineteenth century
Following reported households through Maryland and Pennsylvania, while keeping gaps in the lineage visible.
Enter exhibition ↗John Cann of Delaware
A New Castle merchant and public official, seen through court records, land transactions and an unfinished family history.
Enter exhibition ↗Reading the family through the land
Deeds and estate divisions name relationships, but similar parcels and repeated names require care.
Enter exhibition ↗Revolutionary service: a record is not yet a lineage
Distinguishing the Delaware soldier, a Kentucky pension applicant, and the families still under investigation.
Enter exhibition ↗The Bristol Canns, Compton Green, and heraldry
A historical armigerous family deserves careful attribution, without assigning its arms to everyone named Cann.
Enter exhibition ↗The Cann Arms: History, Identity and Evidence
A closer examination of English heraldry, the historic Bristol Cann family and the difference between documented arms and a surname-wide emblem.
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