Archibald Cunningham of Waterstoun

ARCHIBALD CUNNINGHAM OF WATERSTOUN

Archibald Cunningham of Waterstoun is the second son of Sir Robert Cuninghame of Kilmaurs and his wife Anne Montgomery. His older brother Alexander was the first earl of Glencairn. The Scots Peerage, iv, p. 232 Archibald Cunningham of Waterstoun was murdered by the Earl of Eglinton in 1528. Historical Tales and Legends of Ayrshire , p. 17

Children

1. Ninian Cunningham of Waterstoun
2. John Cunningham

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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27 April 1458: Charter by which Alexander Cunningham, lord of Kilmaurs, confirms that has given Walterstoun in the barony of Renfrew to his younger brother Archibald in return for his homage and service. Archibald Cunningham obtained a confirmation under the Great Seal of Scotland on 16 November 1478. https://archive.org/stream/registrummagnisi02scot#page/288/mode/1up Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1424-1513, charter number 1406 on p. 288]

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9 March 1498: Attestation that Cuthbert Lord Kilmaurs, Archibald Cunningham, his brother, Andrew Cunningham, brother of the Laird of Cunninghamhead, Guido Cunningham, Patrick Starmond, George Kelso and John Mowat compeared before George Earl of Huntly, Justice General south of the Water Forth in a court holden at the burgh of Ayr, and were found guilty art and part of forethought felony committed by them or Hugh Lord Montgomerie when holding a court of the bailiary of Cunningham, and also for breaking of the kings protection, for all which they were fined. National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/1/24

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14 May 1505: Remission by King James IV to Cuthbert Earl of Glencairn, Archibald Cunningham, his brother and nine other persons, including Robert Danyston, William Lyle and John Lyle for being art and part guilty of oppression and forethought felony committed by them on Sir Patrick Houston of that Ilk knight, in the taking of his person from the house of Robert Park in Finlayston Maxwell. At Edinburgh. National Records of Scotland, Earls of Glencairn, reference GD39/1/28

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