Adam CUNNINGHAM

   Research Notes:

1851 Scotland Census:

Age given: 19 years
Birthplace given: Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dwelling Place: Laigh Tarbeg, Ochiltree, Ayrshire
Occupation: Agricultural Labourer

Working on the farm of his aunt Janet Wilson (widow of his maternal uncle Adam)

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1861 Scotland Census:

Age given: 30 years
Birthplace given: Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dwelling Place: Fail Mill, Tarbolton, Ayrshire
Occupation: Ploughman

Servant to John and Helen Wilson, small farmers and millers. John Wilson (b. 1821 in Kirkmichael, son of John Wilson & Ruth Campbell) was quite possibly a relative of Adam on his mother's side.

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1871 Scotland Census:

Age given: 40 years
Birthplace given: Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dwelling Place: Craig Mill, Riccarton, Ayrshire
Occupation: Railway Surfaceman

Present were wife Isabella (40) of Tarbolton, children: Adam (10)** of Coylton, scholar, John (8) of Tarbolton, scholar, Elizabeth (6) of Tarbolton, scholar, Mary (4) of Tarbolton, Thomas (1) of Craigie

** Based on the evidence, Adam Jr. was not Isabella's son, since he was born at least a year before she married his father, and Isabella's first son, John Alexander, was born less than 12 months after she married Adam Cunningham Sr.. In 1890, Adam Cunningham (Jr.), age 30, married Agnes Sim in Glasgow. The marriage certificate states that the "reputed father" was Adam Cunningham, master grain miller, and mother Elizabeth Guthrie, who "subsequently married to William Faint". In the 1901 Scotland Census for Glasgow Maryhill, Adam G. Cunningham (40) of Joppa (by Coylton) in Ayrshire, coal hill clerk, was living with his wife Agnes and their adopted son Adam McLean at 592 New Keppoch Hill Rd. Note below that, in 1891 and 1901, Adam Cunningham (Sr.) was a (grain) miller, and had been working on and off as a miller since 1861. On the 1893 marriage certificate of his son John Alexander Cunningham, Adam is also referred to as a master grain miller.

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1881 Scotland Census:

Age given: 49 years
Birthplace given: Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dwelling Place: Knockshinnoch Farm, New Cumnock, Ayrshire
Occupation: Agricultural Labourer

Not with his family. Working on the farm of Jane Wilson (74)** of New Cumnock, who was probably a relative on his mother's side.

** Mother of John Wilson (51) of New Cumnock, and thus probably the same as Jean Campbell who married William Wilson.

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1891 Scotland Census (surname spelt Cuninghame):

Age given: 60 years
Birthplace given: Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dwelling Place: Grange Mill, Maybole, Ayrshire
Occupation: Miller and Game keeper

Present were wife Isabella (61), children: Mary (21), miller's daughter, Thomas (20), miller

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1901 Scotland Census:

Age given: 69 years
Birthplace given: Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dwelling Place: Grange Mill, Maybole, Ayrshire
Occupation: Grain Miller

Present were wife Isabella (60?), daughter Mary (26)

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1911 Scotland Census:

Age given: 80 years
Birthplace given: Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dwelling Place: Grange Mill, Maybole, Ayrshire
Occupation: Grain Miller (own account)

Present were wife Isabella (78) of Tarbolton, daughter Mary (41) of Tarbolton.

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Died aged 88 years

   Marriage Information:

Adam married Elizabeth GUTHRIE. (Elizabeth GUTHRIE was born about 1840 in Ayrshire, Scotland.)

   Marriage Information:

Adam also married Isabella COWAN, daughter of John Alexander COWAN and Elizabeth McGAVIN, on 20 Jun 1862 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland ¹. (Isabella COWAN was born on 29 May 1825 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland and died on 24 Jan 1913 in Grange Mill, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland.)

   Marriage Notes:

Adam Cunningham, miller, bachelor, age 31, of Burnside Tarbolton, son of William Cunningham, farmer (deceased) and Elizabeth Cunningham M.S. Wilson, and
Isabella Cowan, sewed muslin worker, age 33, of Tarbolton, daughter of John Alexander Cowan, mason, and Elizabeth Cowan M.S. McGoan

Witnesses: George Dickie, Thomas Cunningham