Brief Life History of James Kenneth
When James Kenneth Cunningham was born on 16 October 1902, in Shelby, Alabama, United States, his father, James Alfred Cunningham, was 33 and his mother, Susan Matilda Moody Cunningham, was 23. He married Mary Elizabeth Bridges Cunningham on 3 July 1921, in Calera, Shelby, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Saginaw, Shelby, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Montevallo, Shelby, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 March 1985, in Talladega, Alabama, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Montevallo, Shelby, Alabama, United States.
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- Kenneth Cunningham, "United States 1950 Census"
- Kenneth Cunningham, "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- James Cunningham, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1903
Historical Boundaries: 1903: Shelby, Alabama, United States
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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