Robert Cunningham of Waterstoun

ROBERT CUNNINGHAM OF WATERSTOUN

Robert Cunningham of Waterstoun is the son of Hugh Cunningham of Waterstoun and his wife Margaret Wallace National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/1/125

Children

1. Robert Cunningham of Waterstoun
2. Jean Cunningham
3. Sara Cunningham

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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3 January 1571: Robert Cunningham of Waterstoun, acting as bailie for John Semple of Bultreis, gave sasine of the lands of Reddenehill to David Blair of Adamtoun and his wife Margaret Hamilton. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1580-1593, charter number 1013 on p. 332

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10 November 1582: Acting as baillie for his father. Robert Cunningham is identified as his son and heir. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1580-1593, charter number 526 on p. 160

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13 August 1586: Act of the Lords of Council continuing the hearing of an action at the instance of Alexander Cunynghame of Craganis against Hew C. of Watterstoun, Gabriel C. in Boghouse, James C. "betuix the Hillis", and others, including Ninian C. in Watterstoun, tenants of the lands of Watterstoun, and also against Robert C., son and apparent heir of said Hew, about the apprising of cattle and goods thereon in satisfaction of an annualrent of £10 due to the pursuer from the said lands National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Cuninghame Family of Craigends, Renfrewshire, reference GD148/227

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25 May 1588: Minutes anent the redemption by James, Earl of Glencairn from Robert Cunningham of Waterston, son and heir of umquhile Hugh Cunningham of Waterston, of the lands of Grassmilside, which had been wadset by the Earl's predecessors to said umquhile Hugh Cunningham for £100.At the church of Kilmaurs.(Margaret Wallace, deceased wife of said Hugh, and James Cunningham brother german of said Robert Cunningham of Waterston are mentioned. Robert Cunningham repudiates the Letter of Reversion by his father and mother produced, and the signatures thereto of his father and of his mother by proxy of Mr Matthew Wallace.) National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/1/125

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25 December 1590: Contract (at Cunynghameheid) between Alexander Cunynghame of Craganis on the one part, and Barbara Lauder, widow of John C. of Cunynghamheid, and Mr. James Foullis, apparent of Colintoun, now her spouse, on the other part, regarding Barbara's terce of the lands of Cunynghamheid and Pokellie, and how it is to be paid Witnesses, William C., brother german to Robert C. of Wattirstoune, and John C., brother to Craganis. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Cuninghame Family of Craigends, Renfrewshire, reference GD148/241

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31 October 1593: Charter by Robert Cunningham of Waterstoun and Alexander, his son to Thomas, Lord Boyd, of the said lands of Overtoun. National Records of Scotland, Boyd Papers, Burgh of Kilmarnock, reference GD8/372

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15 December 1593: Sasine on precept by Robert Cunninghame of Waterstoun and Alexander Cunninghame, his son, for infefting Thomas, Lord Boyd, in the £5 land of Overtoun, in the parish of Kilbride. Dated 15 Dec 1593. 'Archibald Connell, Notary'. National Records of Scotland, Boyd Papers, Burgh of Kilmarnock, reference GD8/373

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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

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4 May 1678: Declaration by John Porterfield of Duchal son and heir served and retoured to the deceased Alexander Porterfield of Duchal that the infeftment to be given by John Earl of Glencairn to the said John Porterfield, of the lands of Boghouse and others extending to a 4 pound land should not innovate or prejudice the heritable disposition of the superiority thereof made by umquhile James Earl of Glencairn and William Lord Kilmaurs, his son to umquhile Robert Cunningham of Waterston and his wife in liferent and Alexander Cunningham their son in fee. National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/1/328

Genealogy

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Stirnet: Cunningham 09