Look-Up for Charles CUNNINGHAM of HOUGHTON 1901 please

[CheshireSteve]

Thanks for explaing the two Marys.

Sometimes its interesting to see the families following specific trades, such as wheelwrights or publicans in this case - in fact it can be a helpful clue when deciding which family is which. I can see a publicans in the Trevatt, and so was Clement Goodyer, but also Mary Goodyer married Charles Cunningham and both he and his father before him ran the George and Dragon in Houghton, Sussex, and their father before them was a publican at The Old Inn, Houghton (which could even be the same pub's original name). Charles' daughter Edith (my Aunt Edie) ran the Black Horse in Amberley until about 1960, she was married to John Alexander Jackson, who I believe died of drink. So 4 generations of publicans.

By coincidence the paternal side of my family, miles away in Cheshire also had publicans in it.

[LizzieL]

Clement was for a short time the landlord of the White Horse in Bury. Just outside the village on the main road, but it's changed its name now to the Squire and Horse.
Clement's father William was a wheelwright. He married Elizabeth Christopher. There was another slightly younger William and Elizabeth Goodyer baptising children in Bury which slightly overlapped. The other William was a carpenter. Only by the vicar stating occupation on baptism records, was I able to sort out the two families. I think the two Williams may have been distant cousins.

[CheshireSteve]

I knew there were some more wheelwrights on the Cunningham side. Charles Cunningham's father Robert was down as Wheelwright and Inn Keeper in the 1851 census (in Houghton). Later, when Charles was the Landlord of the George & Dragon in Houghton, his brother, Clement, was the Wheelwright in Houghton.

I think I have managed to locate the source of the Cunningham's in Houghton back to Barony, Lanarkshire. Looks like Robert Cunningham joined the Royal Horse Artillery aged 20 in 1797 in Scotland, and on leaving ended up in Sussex where he lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1863.

[LesleyMic]

Interested in chatting with CheshireSteve who posted: I think I have managed to locate the source of the Cunningham's in Houghton back to Barony, Lanarkshire.

Robert Cunningham is my three times great grandfather. And there the line ends...until now?

Regards,

Lesley
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

[LizzieL]

Hello and welcome to Rootschat

Cheshire Steve hasn't been on the site since March. But he should get an email notification that there's been a reply to a thread he's contributed to.

When you have made three posts you will be able to send him a PM

[LesleyMic]

Thanks very much!

Lesley
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

[CheshireSteve]

Lizzie was correct, I got a notification via e-mail.

I agree about Barony, and believe the Robert Cunningham that is our common ancestor, was christened 3rd August 1777, Barony (Near Glasgow), Lanarkshire, to father William and mother Helen. Not sure how hard and fast this is, but that gives siblings William (b1772) and Janet (b1775), and marriage of William and Helen Wallace (maybe Willat, Wallas) 30 Nov 1771 Barony. Its been a while since I looked into this, so can't remember how tenuous the information is. My notes say Robert "Enlisted aged 20 Soldiers Unit, 3 Battalion, Royal Artillery", and it seems when he came out of the army he headed south.

Lesley, I am decendant from the Cunninghams via Welton and Wyatt, and there are Wyatts in Canada near you, so are you part of that family branch?

[LesleyMic]

I am descended from Robert Cunningham through his daughter Caroline, who married my two times great grandfather Henry Pope of Heyshott. The Popes stayed in England - my father (whose mother was a Lena Pope) brought our family to Canada in 1966.

Robert was as gunner with the Royal Horse Artillery - the Waterloo Medal roll puts him in Lt. Col. Gardiner's E Troop. Robert enlisted at age 18, in 1797 which would put his birth about 1779 - and he served for just short of 24 years. After that, he moved his family south, to Sussex.

Would like to PM you.

               L.

[sillgen]

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