When Margaret Mary Anne Cunningham was born on 4 February 1915, in New York City, New York, United States, her father, Lawrence Cunningham, was 37 and her mother, Mary Theresa Foley, was 33. She married Merlin William Brough on 27 November 1940, in District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States in 1920 and Queens, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. She died on 26 August 1988, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.
Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.
History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.
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