When Silas Cunningham was born in 1793, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States, his father, John Cunningham, was 27 and his mother, Frances Bland, was 27. He married Sarah "Sally" Runyon on 8 February 1821, in Warren, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Jefferson Township, Henry, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Preston Township, Platte, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died in 1871, in Independence Township, Nodaway, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78.
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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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