When Jesse Lawrence Cunningham was born on 29 November 1864, in Obion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Wilson Cunningham, was 53 and his mother, Nancy Isabella Lawrence, was 46. He lived in Troy, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 31 December 1891, in Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in New Ebenezer Cemetery, Troy, Obion, Tennessee, United States.
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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