Brief Life History of Robert Burns
When Robert Burns Cunningham was born on 12 December 1827, in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Patrick Cunningham, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Burns, was 37. He married Ellen Gibbons on 14 April 1844, in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870 and Election Precinct 9, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 22 December 1901, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Robt Cunningham, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
- Robert Cunningham, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
1832 · The Scottish Reform Act
The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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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A Life Sketch of Robert Cunningham by his Daughter-in-Law
Robert Cunningham was born in Stevenston on 12 dec 1827. He was the son of Peter and Sarah Burns Cunningham. His father died of cholera when Robert was a small boy. He said he remembered his father co …
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