Cann family tree
This family tree, created by an unknown source, was found in the Trinity College library archives.
From Samuel Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire (1779), p.801:
William Cann
There is a handsome seat, and a large estate in this tithing, formerly belonging to the Canns. William Cann, of Compton, alderman of Bristol, married Margaret, sister to sir Robert Yeomans. Robert Cann, son and heir of William and Margaret, married to his first wife, Cicely, daughter of Humphrey Hooke, alderman of Bristol. By her he had William, his son and heir, who married Elizabeth, daughter of sir Thomas Langton, of Bristol, knight. Their son and heir, William, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Chester, of Knole, and by her had one daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, wedded to Thomas Master, of the Abbey at Cirencester, esq; which Elizabeth is mother to the present Thomas Master, of the same place, who married Mary, daughter of James-Lenox-Napier Dutton, esq; and by her has issue several children.
Sir Robert Cann
The before-mentioned Robert Cann was knighted by king Charles the Second, Apr.22, 1662, and created a baronet on the thirteenth of September following. He married to his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Derrick Popley, by whom he had a son, Thomas, knighted by king James the Second, Apr. 17, 1686; in favour of whom he made a will, to the disinherison of his son William, which caused very long and expensive law-suits between the two branches of the family; when, after several hearings in chancery, and a bill of Revivor brought by the last sir William Cann, bar1. the will was fully established. Sir Robert Cann served the office of high sheriff in the year 1676.
Sir Thomas Cann
Sir Thomas Cann, knight, son of sir Robert, left issue two sons, Robert and William, of whom the latter was town-clerk of Bristol; and three daughters, Anne, married to Nicholas Jackson, of Sneed Park; Catherine, married to John Fog, alderman of Bristol; and Mary, who died unmarried. He served the office of high sheriff in the year 1686, and dying, was succeeded in estate by his eldest son Robert.
Robert Cann, who also, on the death of his cousin sir William Cann, Apr.27, 1726, succeeded to the title of baronet. He served the office of high sheriff in 1727, and died a batchelor in 1748.
William Cann, town-clerk of Bristol, was brother to the last sir Robert Cann, whom he succeeded in honour and estate, and died in the year 1753.
Sir Robert Cann, son and heir of the last sir William, succeeded his father, and died without issue, July 20, 1765. His only sister, Catherine, had been married to Mr. Charles Jeffries, of Bristol, by whom she had issue one son, Robert Cann Jeffries; and one daughter, Catherine.
Bibliography
P. McGrath, The Merchant Venturers of Bristol (Bristol: T, 1975: The Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol).
S. Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire (Cirencester, 1779; new edition Gloucester: Sutton, 1986).
Unknown, Cann of Compton Green Family Tree (Bristol: Trinity College Library).