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Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« on: Sunday 12 February 23 13:05 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know if Waddell Cuningham’s family tree is in the public domain and if so where? I am trying to establish the age of his brother Josias.

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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 12 February 23 13:33 GMT (UK) »
Can you give as some approx dates and locations to help us start.

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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 12 February 23 16:01 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know if Waddell Cuningham’s family tree is in the public domain and if so where? I am trying to establish the age of his brother Josias.

You have posted in IRELAND RESOURCES which is for resources not queries.

Just click on 'report to moderator' and request the thread to be moved to the ANTRIM board.

As johnhood says, we need some dates to be able to help you.

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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 12 February 23 16:52 GMT (UK) »
Waddell Cunningham died in December 1797 in Belfast.
Josias died in August 1778 in a private madhouse in Hoxton, London. According to his Inquisition in Lunacy on 24 August 1773 he was 40 and Waddell his only surviving brother and heir. According to accounts of Waddell’s life he was born in 1729 and was the youngest child so either the Inquisition age is wrong or Waddell was not the youngest child.


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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 12 February 23 17:12 GMT (UK) »
This Waddell?
https://www.dib.ie/biography/cunningham-waddell-a2312

There are a couple of trees but they don’t have Josias :-\
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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 12 February 23 17:22 GMT (UK) »
Josias may have been dropped from the tree on account of the problems he caused his family from about 1762 onwards.

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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 12 February 23 17:23 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, yes that Waddell Cunningham.

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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 12 February 23 17:47 GMT (UK) »
It may be that whoever draws the trees up, was not aware of him if he was in England.

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Re: Siblings of Waddell Cuningham/Cunningham of Belfast
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 22 July 23 14:15 BST (UK) »
I noted down this article a few years ago.  I have no idea how accurate it is.

Northern Whig and Belfast Post, 20th Dec 1835:
BELFAST OF BYGONE DAYS ... James, the fourth and youngest son, is also still well remembered.  He married Eliza, daughter of James [or John?] Cunningham of Macedon by his wife, Maria, daughter of William Simms of The Grove, and through that marriage became allied with a group of inter-related familes of exceptional local interest.  His wife's grandfather was the well known "Captain" John Cunningham -- in early days he had been an owning shipmaster -- who had purchased Macedon in 1813.  He was the third son of Hugh Cunningham by his wife, Agnes Simms, and there is substantial evidence that this Hugh was the brother of the well-known Waddell Cunningham, who, in 1765, married Miss Margaret Hyde, of Hydepark, his brother-in-law being Captain Robert Batt and Thomas Gregg of Ballymenoch.  The brothers Hugh and Waddell Cunningham -- as I take them to have been -- were sons of Ernest Cunningham by his wife, Mary Waddell, of Islanderry.