Researching William Cumming
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5714 people with the Cumming surname? In that year Cumming was ranked number 742 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Cumming on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Cumming and the Cumming Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 4799 people with the Cumming surname in the UK? Cumming is now ranked number 1234 for popularity in the UK. |
Cumming Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called William Cumming
William Cumming (Continental Congress)
William Cumming (July 30, 1724–1797) was an American lawyer who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress for North Carolina in 1785.
William was born in Annapolis, Maryland on July 30, 1724. He read law and practiced in Maryland for several years before he moved to Edenton, North Carolina. In North Carolina his law practice extended into several counties: Chowan, Currituck, and Pasquotank Counties.
Cumming attended the colony's Provincial Congress in 1776 and was first elected to North Carolina's House of Commons in 1781, and served in several other terms as well. In 1784 and 1785 the legislature named him as a delegate to the Continental Congress, but he only attended sessions of the Congress in 1785.
Source: William Cumming (Continental Congress), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Cumming (artist)
William Lee Cumming (March 24, 1917 – November 22, 2010) is a noted 20th-century American artist, often associated with the Northwest School. A controversial figure - he was a hardcore Stalinist for a long period, was married seven times, and was generally outspoken and opinionated - he eventually came to be respected as an important innovator and highly distinctive stylist in modern art, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
Source: William Cumming (artist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
William Cumming (politician)
William Ronald Cumming (25 January 1886 – 30 October 1951) was an Australian politician.
He was born at Mount Fyans near Mortlake to grazier William Burrow Cumming and Adeline Catherine Affleck. He attended Geelong Grammar School and served with the 39th Battalion during World War I; he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. In 1914 he married Ava Irene Maidment Henty, with whom he had a son and three daughters; he would later marry Nora Lillian Crowe on 9 March 1944. On his return from the war he managed his father's property at Mount Fyans, which was sold in 1933. Cumming purchased land at Camperdown. He served on Mortlake Shire Council from 1924 to 1947, as president from 1932 to 1933. In 1935 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party member for Hampden. A supporter of Ian Macfarlan, he was Minister of Agriculture in the stop-gap Macfarlan Ministry of 1945, but was defeated at the subsequent election. In 1949 he moved to Peterborough, where he died in 1951.
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