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Jane Cunningham

Was looking for any information on my great great great grandmother Jane Cunningham.

The information I have on Jane Cunningham is that she was born in 1790 and was christened on 1st June 1790. She was christened at Dromore Parish , Down Ireland. She married Robert Brewster/Brouster and had 9 children.

Ann born abt 1819 and she married Stewart McMullen.

Other children born between 1823 and 1836 were Jane, Robert, John, Edward , Margaret, William, Francis and James.

Them emmigrated to Australia aboard the Adam Lodge in 1838.

John Cunningham and Susannah Mooney were the parents of Jane and my gggg greatparents.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Lesa

lesa brady

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Lesa,

I assume that the Cunningham family were Church of Ireland as that’s the only denomination in Dromore with records for the 1790s. Their baptism, marriage and burial records all start in 1784 so getting back much further will be difficult. You might find Jane’s parents marriage in the records if they married after 1784 and in that church. There’s a copy of the records in PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast.

Jane Cunningham is mentioned in this link, though I suspect you may already have seen it:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/genealogy/SURNAMES/C/CunninghamAJ.htm

There are several Presbyterian churches in Dromore (which is possibly where some of the other events may have taken place) but none has any records earlier than 1832.

Getting back any earlier than this information is very difficult due to the general lack of records in Ireland at that time.  Given the location and the surname, the Cunninghams seem likely to have originated in Scotland and moved to Co. Down in the 1600s (along with at least 100,000 other Scots).

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