Joseph Cunningham

JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

27 September 1596: Instrument of requisition by Joseph Cuningham, brother of Robert Cuningham of Watterston, to Alexander Cunningham, to receive the redemption of the lands of Carlung and mill of Kilmaurs. With instrument of consignation, 10 November 1596, by above to John Fyar in Overtoun of redemption money of above lands. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/2/15/7

===Genealogical Accounts===

# James Paterson, History of the County of Ayr: with a Genealogical Account of the Families of Ayrshire (Edinburgh, Thomas George Stevenson, M.DCCC.LII), ii, 528 pp. For Cunningham of Waterstoun and Carlung see pp. 143-44

1. Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland etc. (Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1907), iv 597 pp. see pp. 222-52 for Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn
2. George Robertson, Topographical Description of Ayrshire: More Particularly of Cunninghame, together with a Genealogical Account of the Principal Families in that Bailiwick (Irvine, Cunninghame Press, 1820), 442 pp. see pp. 128-30 for Cunninghame of Carlung