Alexander Cunningham (priest)
English Anglican priest in Ireland died 1660
Alexander Cunningham (died 3 September 1660) was a 17th-century Scottish Anglican priest in Ireland.
Cunningham was born in Scotland. He held livings at Inver and Killymard; and was Dean of Raphoe from 1630 to 1660.
He married Marion Murray, daughter of John Murray of Broughton, Wigtownshire, Scotland, and had an enormous family (twenty-seven by some accounts), many of whom died young. 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.
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