John Cunningham, 15th of Glengarnock

John Cunningham, 15th of Glengarnock

• Birth: 1514 - Ayrshire, , Scotland
• Parents: William Cunningham, Elizabeth Sinclair
• Wife: Margaret Fleming
• Child: Jean Cunningham
• Death: 1596

Family

1.Margaret Fleming, mar. after 12 dec 1540 John Cunningham of Glengarnock

John Cuninghame of Glengarnock succeeded his father. Robertson supposes him to have been twice married, as he had a daughter, Jean, married in 1565 to John Shaw of Greenock, who could not have been the daughter of Margaret, daughter of Malcolm, third Lord Fleming, whom he married in 1548[?]. He had also a daughter, Margaret, married to Malcolm Craufurd ofKilbirnie.

He had, according to Millar's MS., twelve sons :

• 1. William, who predeceased him.
• 2. John, the first of Caddell, &c.
• And five daughters, viz. Lady Blair [?-previous generation], Lady Kilbirnie, Lady Greenock, Lady Fullwood, and Lady Duchall [?-previous generation].

Like his predecessors, this Laird of Glengarnock entered pretty deeply into the feuds of his time. In 1555, Januarys, "John Cunnynghame of Glengarnok, Cuthbert C. of Cochrane, and Alex C., his brothers, John C. of Croy, and thirtytwo others, found caution to underly the law at the next Justice-aire of Air, for convocation of the lieges to the number of thirty persons, armed in warlike manner, and coming under silence of night, in July 1554, by way of hamesucken, to the house of Humphrey Galbrayth in Eister Glenne, breaking up the doors thereof, entering the same, and searching for him for his slauchter, committed on forethought felony."

He lived to a great age. In 1591, June 19, Sir Patrick Houston of that Ilk, &c., was "dilatit of airt and pairt of the slauchteris of vmqle William Cuninghame, oy (grandson) of the auld Laird of Glengarnok, and vmqle. Johnne Cwningham, his sone naturall, committed with convocationne, of the causing of the said Sir Patrick, the ferd day of Apryle last was, vpoun sett purpoise and provisionne." The pursuers for this slaughter were, "Johnne Cwninghame of Glengarnok" and "William Cuninghame, zounger of Glengarnok."

As already stated, the "Auld Laird" survived the younger. He died, however, before 1596. [4, 5]

References

• Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, 28th edition (London, U.K.: Harrison and Sons, 1866), page 891. Hereinafter cited as The Peerage and Baronetage, 28th ed.
• http://thepeerage.com/p46734.htm#i467336
• Cunningham of Glengarnock updated 1999
• http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index1707.htm#FLEM...