CAIN has several different origins, depending on your ancestry.
In the first instance it can be an anglicised form of the Welsh cain meaning beautiful. This was often used as a first element in Welsh feminine names such as Ceinwyn and Ceinlys.
Seconldy is is used by the Irish and the Manx as an anglicised form of � Cath�in or Mac Cath�in from the Gaelic cath meaning battle.
It was also introduced in Britain by the Norman invaders as the Old French cane meaning a reed, becoming a nickname for a thin, reedlike person, from the Latin canna; or a s a toponym from the Calvados, Normandy, town of Caen.
The English name may also be a metronym from a woman who gathered and sold reeds to be used as a floor covering, from the French-introduced Middle English word.(9)page 118.
Researching: - Josephine Pearl Ruby Cain m. Ernest S. Savell - Burwood 1940.
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