Jean Cunningham, of Glengarnock

Jean Cunningham was born ABT 1545 in Glengarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, and died ? . She was the daughter of 2. John Cunningham and 3. Margaret Fleming. Others have her as child of William Cunningham (Johns son) and Mary Sinclair.

She married John Schaw, son of Alexander Schaw and Elizabeth Cunningham. He was born ABT 1542 in Sauchie, Clackmannshire, Scotland, and died ABT 1593 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Notes

From Page 276 of Old Greenock from the Earliest Times to the Early Part of the Nineteenth ...By George Williamson

family pedigree already cited bears that John Schaw by his marriage with Jean Cunninghame had five sons and five daughters—" 1st, Alexander, who predeceased his father without issue; 2nd, James, who succeeded; 3rd, William, of Spangow; 4th, Patrick of Kelsoeland; 5th, Robert, ancestor of the Schaws of Ganoway, in Ireland. The daughters were 1st, Elizabeth, who married Hugh Montgomery [or Montgomerie] of Braidstone, who was created Viscount of Ardes in Ireland in 1622, and afterwards disponed Braidstone to his nephew John Shaw; 2nd, Isobel, who married John Lindsay of the Dunrod family; 3rd, Marion, who married Campbell of Doucathall [Dovecoathall]; 4th, Christian, who married Patrick Montgomery of Blackhouse in Scotland, and Craigbouie in Ireland; 5th, Giles, who married James Crawford of Flattertoun." This enumeration of the family has been taken from Craufurd's "History of Renfrewshire" and Nisbet's MS. " Genealogical History " in the Advocates' Library.

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When Alexander Schaw of Sauchie and Greenock married Elizabeth Cunningham of Glengarnock in 1539, it was agreed that the lands of West Greenock would go to the heirs male from that marriage. However, Alexander had two natural sons prior to his marriage with Elizabeth named James and Patrick who were legitimised in 1546 shortly before their father’s death. James became Laird of Sauchie and the wine cellar job continued with that branch of the family. Accounts of the Schaws of Sauchie can be found in Genealogical Notes Anent Some Ancient Scottish Families by David Marshall (1884) and Ancient Castles and Mansions of Stirling Nobility by J.S.Fleming (1902)
Meanwhile Alexander and Elizabeth had a son John, probably around 1540, who became Laird of Greenock and married his cousin Jean Cunningham of Glengarnock. His descendants built a harbour at Greenock which is 22 miles west of Glasgow on the Clyde. At first they tried to get financial assistance from the king but when that was not forthcoming they financed it themselves and became enormously wealthy when Greenock went on to become the fourth busiest port in the United Kingdom by the start of the 19th Century. (It’s interesting to notice that during the same period my Chichester relatives were across the Irish Sea transforming Belfast from a tiny village to the busiest port in Ireland.) In time, the Schaws of Greenock added the lands of East Greenock and Sauchie to their estates.

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