Canaday History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Canaday family

Early History of the Canaday family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Canaday research. Another 67 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1615 and 1685 are included under the topic Early Canaday History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Canaday Spelling Variations

Names during the Middle Ages were typically recorded as they sounded and in many cases, one's surname spelling changed with each record. Spelling variations revealed in the search for the origin of the Canaday family name include Kennedy, Minagh, Kennady, O'Kennedy and others.

Early Notables of the Canaday family

Prominent amongst the family at this time was Mathew Kennedy, who was forced to leave Ireland for France after the Fall of Limerick; Sir Robert Kennedy, 1st Baronet, an official of the...
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Canaday Ranking

In the United States, the name Canaday is the 9,257^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 3

Migration of the Canaday family

Irish families began leaving their homeland for North America in the late 18th century. These families were usually modestly well off, but they were looking forward to owning and working on a sizable tract of land of their own. This pattern of emigration continued until the 1840s when the Great Potato Famine sparked a major exodus of destitute and desperate Irish people. These people were not leaving for a grant of land in North America because by this time the East Coast had reached its saturation point and free land was scarce. They were merely looking to escape the disease, starvation, and hopelessness that Ireland had fallen into. Although these unfortunate immigrants did not receive a warm welcome by the established populations in the United States and what would become Canada, they were absolutely critical to the rapid development that these two nations enjoyed. They would help populate the western lands and provide the cheap labor required for a rapid industrialization. An examination of passenger and immigration lists has revealed many early bearers of the name Canaday or one of its variants: Teage O'Kenedy, who arrived in Virginia in 1666; Ffergos Kenedey, a Scotch-Irish settler in New England in 1718; David Kennedy, who arrived in Boston in 1737.