Brief Life History of Clarence Bernard
When Clarence Bernard Cunningham was born on 25 November 1880, in Greenfield, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, James Clarence Cunningham, was 32 and his mother, Aramantha Dorna Faulkner, was 23. He married Eva Lillian Richards on 18 December 1906, in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 5 years. He died on 13 May 1953, in Greenfield, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Clarence Cunningham, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Clarence Bernard Cunningham - Government record: birth: 25 November 1880; Greenfield, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Clarence Burney Cunningham, "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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