When Dean L Cunningham was born on 3 June 1908, in Missouri, United States, his father, Druey Franklin Cunningham, was 43 and his mother, Rebecca Jane Yates, was 39. He married Kate Kirby in Riverton, Fremont, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Election District 11, Fremont, Wyoming, United States in 1940 and Fremont, Wyoming, United States in 1950. He died on 29 January 1975, in St. Helens, Columbia, Oregon, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Rainier, Columbia, Oregon, 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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