Alexander Cunningham (priest) explained

Alexander Cunningham (died 3 September 1660) was a 17th-century Scottish Anglican priest in Ireland.^[1]

Cunningham was born in Scotland.^[2] He held livings at Inver and Killymard; and was Dean of Raphoe from 1630 to 1660.^[3]

He married Marion Murray, daughter of John Murray of Broughton, Edinburgh, and had an enormous family (twenty-seven by some accounts), many of whom died young.^[4] Nine children reached adulthood, including-

• General Sir Albert Cunningham (later generations spelt the name Conyngham)
• Alexander
  • Margaret, who married the Reverend Alexander Montgomery, Prebendary of Doe, County Donegal: they were the grandparents of Colonel Alexander Montgomery Catherine, who married John Leslie, Bishop of Clogher, and had several children.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology . Third . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 376–377.
2. http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I40770&tree=CC Clan MacFarlane
3. "Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland" Vol 3 p361: Cotton, H; Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1860
4. Mosley, Charles ed. Burke's Peerage 107th edition Wilmington, Delaware 2003 Vol.1 p. 879
5. Burke's Peerage Vol.1 p.879