When Robert Cartwright Cunningham was born on 18 October 1856, in Netherton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, his father, Robert Burns Cunningham, was 28 and his mother, Ellen Gibbons, was 34. He lived in New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861. He died in August 1863, in Missouri River Township, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 6, and was buried in Missouri River Township, St. Louis, Missouri, 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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Possible Related NamesRobert Cartwright Cunningham, born 18 October, 1856; died August, 1863. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial, This is the Place Heritage Park; Stone 12 (right side). In 1863, the Cunningham …
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