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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1880–1953 Male
1883–1953 Female
1848–1926 Male
1857–1946 Female
1879–1961 Male
1880–1953 Male
1882–1963 Male
1891–1987 Female
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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