Helen Cunynghame

HELEN CUNNINGHAM (aka HELENA CUNYNGHAME)

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

6 June 1553: Charter under the Great Seal of Scotland which confirms possession of the forty shilling lands of old extent of Over-Auldhall, in the Cunningham division of Ayrshire, to James Dunlop, son of Alexander Dunlop of that Ilk, following the decease of John Dunlop, grandfather of the said James. The land in question was given to James Dunlop by his father, Alexander Dunlop, following the death of Cuthbert Dunlop, another of Alexander's sons. Alexander Dunlop, and his daughter-in-law, Helena Cunynghame, widow of the deceased John Dunlop, junior, also Alexander's son, are said to have been the previous hereditary owners. RMS 1546-1580: charter number 787

Printed Evidence

Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1546-1580. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advocate. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1886), 1180 pp. including indices and errata

Genealogy

1. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain etc. By John Burke, Volume I. (Henry Colburn, London, MDCCCXXXV), pp. 434-6 for Dunlop of that Ilk
2. History of the County of Ayr etc., By James Paterson. Vol. II (Thomas George Stevenson, Edinburgh, M.DCCC.LII), pp. 46-9 for Dunlop of that Ilk
3. Stirnet: Dunlop 01