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Sorry to take so long to answer you but here is what we know William Canning was my
grandfather and he marries Maryann Horan and they lived in Phila. Pa his father was John
Canning and he married Margaret Rafter in Phila. Pa. John was born is Ireland in 1828 and
died in 1898 in Phila pa. Margaret was born in Ireland in 1833 and died in 1911 William
was a stevedore in phila. Margarets parents were James Rafter and Jane Rafter her maiden
name was Regan , William had children named Michael 1898,my father, and Charles, Walter,
Mary florence, Joseph Matilda, Margaret, John, Stephen, Dorothy Agnes and William, Jr.
John and Margaret had three children they were William Francis 1863, Elizabeth 1871,
Matilda 1875. William married a Horan, Elizabeth married a Milan and Matilda married a
Vienard