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Historical References
"CUNINGHAM, CUNINGHAME, CUNNINGHAM, CUNNDIGHAME, CUNNYNCHAME, CUNYNGHAM. 0 Of territorial origin from the northern district of the name in Ayrshire. Now a widespread surname, old families having divided into many branches. Wemebald, a vassal of Hugh de Moreville, obtained the manor and vill of Cunningham from his feudal superior. Robert filius Wernebaldi granted the church of Kilmaurs with half a caracate of land belonging thereto to the monks of Kelso, c. 1170, and the grant was confirmed by his superior, Robert de Moreville, and by Robert, son of Robert, son of Wernebaldus ( Kelso, 283-285 ). Robert filius Warnebald (? Robert filius Robert! filii de Warnebald) married Richenda, daughter of Vmfridus de Berkeley, and made a grant to the Abbey of Arbroath, 1228 ( RAA., i, 198). Richard de Cunningham appears as witness to charter by Alan, son of Roland, Constable of Scotland, between 1210-33 ( Sc. Peer., rv, p. 224). Alexander de Kuningham witnessed the grant of Kirkbride Largs to the nuns of North Berwick, a. 1190 (CMN., 14). Magister William de Cunigharn, rector of the church of Kilmaurs, 1246, and dominus William de Cunyngham, 1269, were charter witnesses (Kelso, 179, 282). James de Cunyngham who witnessed gift of the church of Largs to church of Paisley c. 1317 (RMP., p. 237), is probably the individual who had a dispensation to remain in marriage with Helen de Catantilly of the diocese of Glasgow (Pap. Lett., i, p. 224). James de Cogheime was canon of Dunkeld, 1375 (Milne, p. 36), and Sir William de Conyngham appears as dominus de Kylmawrus, 1370 (Kelso, 514). William de Cuningham, vicar of Dundonald, was threatened with excommunication for intruding himself into the administration of the Poor House of Polmadie (domus pauperum de Polmade), 1403 (REG., p. 295). Adam de Cunygam was member of Ayr guild, c. 1431 (Coll. AGAA., I, p. 229). Cunninghams from Ayrshire migrated to Strathblane in middle of sixteenth century, and descendants of Cunninghams of Caprington, Ayrshire, are found settled in Caithness, c. 1624 ( (Henderson, Caithness families, p. 201-208). Johnne Cromyghame was messenger-at-arms in Fife, 1569 (RPC., i, p. 659), and many of the name appear in Edinburgh in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The name was also carried to France at an early period by Scots emigrants and there appears at different dates as (plural) Coninglants, Coigans, Coningans, Cogingands, and Conyghans (Burton, The Scot abroad, i, p. 81). Chonigham and Conigham 1499, Conighame 1568, Conynghame 1424, Cunigom 1654, Cuninggame 1546, Cunyghame 1548, Cunnyngayme 1580, Cunningghame 1556, Cunygam 1480, Cunnygam 1503, Cunyngaham and Cunyngahame 1476, Cunyngame 1553, Cunynghame and Cwnninghame 1608, Cwnygham 1552, Cwnyghame 1550, Cwnynghame 1615, Kyninghame 1653. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Cuningham Family History
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