Adam Cunninghame, 2nd of Caprington

Notes

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The immediate ancestor of the Cunninghams of Caprington was Thomas, third son of Sir William Cunningham of Kilmaurs, who lived in the reign of David the Second. He got from his father in patrimony the lands of Baidland in Ayrshire, by charter dated in 1385.

His son, Adam Cunningham, who succeeded him, married one of the daughters and coheiresses of Sir Duncan Wallace of Sundrum, by whom he got the lands of Caprington, which became the chief designation of the family, and in consequence they were long in use of quartering the arms of Wallace with their own. Adam Cunningham of Caprington was, in 1431, one of the hostages for King James the First, in the room of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig. He died in the end of the reign of King James the Second.

His son, Sir Adam Cunningham, had the honour of knighthood conferred on him by King James the Fourth.

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• Adam Cuninghame of Bedlan, 1st of Caprington m. (c1425) ?? Wallace, heiress of Caprington (dau of Sir Duncan Wallace of Sundrum)
  • 1. Adam Cuninghame, 2nd of Caprington (d 1497) BLG1952 gives dates for this Adam as 1426-97 but it is not clear whether or not these were the dates of his birth & death or the period when he was laird. implying that his father either died in 1426 or handed over the estate to him at that time or that that was the year that he obtained Caprington through his mother, with his father being identified as the 1st laird 'de facto' rather than 'de jure'. 'History of the County of Ayr' (James Paterson, vol 1, 1847, p427), which follows the estate of Bedlan (Baidland) down this line for another 2 generations, omits this generation.
    • A. Sir Adam Cuninghame, 3rd of Caprington m. Isobel Craufurd (dau of Malcolm Craufurd of Kilbirnie)