James Cunningham

JAMES CUNNINGHAM

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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

Genealogical Accounts

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