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Surnames: Canning Cunning Wallace
Classification: Query
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Looking for information about name change: Cunning to Canning. Specifically descendants of
William Cunning and Jane Gibson Wallace, who came from Ireland about 1845 and settled in
East Hawkesbury, Ontario. The split may have occurred as a result of a more conventional
spelling ( Canadian Censuses frequently have the name Cunning as Canning or Caning). Also,
according to Dale Cunning of Rochester, New York, Their may have ben a rift which caused
the name change. He is a descendant of William and Jane's son William Cunning &
his wife Maria Connelly. William & Maria's son Samuel reportedly changed the name
to Canning.