I thank you for the welcome. Actually, I do have a small handful of McCanns in my data, but they are in my wife's line, not my own. They are related to Jane's line and my wife's, and that particular surname (Wynne) is the one Jane and I went to the reunion for this past weekend in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. If anyone wants to see my information, you will find it at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy/master_notes/ If anything looks close or actually connects, I welcome hearing from you. I will be happy to share any and all information we have with you, but since I am only going on a "long shot" on this, I cannot guarantee you that there is any connection. Everything else my grandfather told me as a kid seems to be panning out as true, but this is one detail I have not been able to confirm. . . . . . yet. David *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 06/17/2002, at 6:23 PM, Jane McCann Walsh wrote: >Hi, Ann and David, >Thanks, Ann, for welcoming David. > >It is easy to imagine that McCann which was often written as M'Cann could >have become simply Cann. >Or, is it the other way around? >If Mac or Mc means "son of" then could the first McCann have been a son of >a Cann? > >David, I did a little searching in our list's archives. >Found that back in '99 I had posted this: > >"Found a John CANN living in New Castle, PA in 1691. Is this likely a >McCann? Found this in "Early Pennsylvania Land Records, Minutes of the >Board of Property of the Province of Pennsylvania" on p. 85." > >Has anyone else found early CANNs in Scotland or Ireland? >Best regards, >Jane > > > >==== McCANN Mailing List ==== >Sharing is contagious! Catch the bug!