When Lovie L Cunningham was born on 16 May 1906, in Indiana, United States, her father, LeRoy Cunningham, was 35 and her mother, Anna Ellen Ritchie, was 30. She married Frank Vetor on 24 December 1926, in Muncie, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States. She lived in Van Buren Township, Madison, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Summitville, Van Buren Township, Madison, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died in August 1985, in Dade City, Pasco, Florida, United States, at the age of 79.
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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