Cansick One-Name Study

Cansick
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Cansick One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Historical occurrences
Frequency of the name
Data
Contact Details

About the Cansick One-Name Study

My interest in the Cansick family (my maiden name) started when my half brother married into a family who had already traced their family line. When my niece was born her maternal grandfather made a circular tree but there was no information on the Cansick half!! I had always been interested in my family and their occupation as builders in north London and was then encouraged to take up my hobby.

Variants

Causick, Canswick, Kansick, Kausick - all come from different spellings, soundings and mistranslation.

Origin of the surname

It is not at all clear where the name originated though it has been suggested it was Scandinavian. There are places in Yorkshire which have similar spellings.

Historical occurrences

Well known Cansicks are:

Frederick Teague Cansick born 1829 in north London. He recorded the monumental inscriptions from the gravestones in old St. Pancras graveyard which were displaced when St Pancras station was built and the railway line crossed the land. He published three volumes 'Cansicks Epitaphs of Middlesex - a collection of curious and interesting epitaphs' and recorded many others from Middlesex graveyards which survive in manuscript form.

Paul Cansick, one of the early citizens of Rosedale, Victoria, Australia. Born Wokingham Berks, 31st October 1824. Arrived Australia 1852 and settled in Rosedale in 1857 where he had a tannery and built a hotel that still exists. Was one of the founders of the town and there is a a Cansick street named after him. His grandson, also called Paul, was killed on the battlefields of France in WW1 and their line of the family has died out.

Frequency of the name

Rare name, less than 100 in the 1881 census though by that time there were Cansick families in two regions of Australia - cousins who could have known of each others existence. Another Cansick family went out independantly in the 1920's, but all the known Cansicks in Australia are descended from a marriage in Grinton, north Yorkshire in 1727.

Data

All the births marriages and deaths indexed at the FRC have been noted and most have been linked into families. Early grants of probate have been listed and census returns checked.

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mrs Mollie Newman
10 Hasluck Gardens,
Barnet,
Hertfordshire
EN5 1HT
UNITED KINGDOM
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