When Esther Leona Cunningham was born on 18 June 1930, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, her father, Calvin Cunningham, was 23 and her mother, Clair Mae Nickerson, was 15. She married Gelmer Dale Pfeifer on 10 June 1947, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Rupert Election Precinct 1, Minidoka, Idaho, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. She died on 4 July 2003, in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Gem Memorial Gardens, Burley, Cassia, Idaho, 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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