Anne Gunningham (1756–) • FamilySearch

Anne Gunningham

1756–Female
Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

The Life of Anne

When Anne Gunningham was born on 7 May 1756, in Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Gunningham, was 36 and her mother, Mary Poole, was 34. She married John Bright on 1 February 1779, in Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died in her hometown.

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Spouse and Children

Parents and Siblings

John Bright

1756–

Anne Gunningham

1756–

Marriage: 1 February 1779

Sarah Bright

1779–

Mary Bright

1781–

Mary Bright

1781–

Grace Bright

1783–

Ann Bright

1785–

John Bright

1788–1866

Andrew Bright

1793–1852

Joan Bright

1791–1853

Spouse and Children

John Bright

Male1756–Male

Anne Gunningham

Female1756–Female

MARRIAGE
1 February 1779
Enmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

children

(8)

Female1779–Female

Female1781–Female

Female1781–Female

Female1783–Female

Female1785–Female

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Parents and Siblings

John Gunningham

Male1720–1797Male

Mary Poole

Female1722–1768Female

siblings

(6)

John Gunningham

Male1743–Male

Robert Gunningham

Male1745–1813Male

Sarah Gunningham

Female1753–Female

Jonathan Gunningham

Male1754–Male

Jane Gunningham

Female1755–Female

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World Events (5)

1801 · The Act of Union

Age 45

The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

1815

Age 59

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1823

Age 67

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

Name Meaning

Gunningham

Anne

1 Scottish: habitational name from a district 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.2 Irish: surname adopted from Scottish by bearers of Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader’, ‘chief’.

Possible Related Names

Conahan

Cummingham

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