Brief Life History of Florence M.
When Florence M. Cunningham was born on 1 May 1908, in Illinois, United States, her father, William Johnson Cunningham, was 26 and her mother, Wilhelmina Sophia Frieda Haberman, was 19. She had at least 1 daughter with Walter Ruff. She lived in Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Pinckneyville Election Precinct, Perry, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 7 June 1999, at the age of 91.
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Sources (5)
- Florence Ruff in household of Walter Ruff, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Florence M. Cunningham - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Florence M. Cunningham
- Florence Cunningham in household of William Cunningham, "United States Census, 1910"
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
1881–1956 Male
1889– Female
Siblings (3)
1908–1999 Female
1911–2002 Female
1916– Male
World Events (8)
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Age 1
1910 · Boy Scouts of America
Age 2
1932
Age 24
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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