Cunningham Family of Crookedstone and Belfast

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Reference code(s): D1108

Title: Cunningham Family of Crookedstone and Belfast

Date(s): 1697 - 1940

Level of description: Fonds

Extent and medium of the unit of description: ca260 items

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Cunningham Family of Crookedstone and Belfast

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Scope and content: The following description was taken from K.E.Ingram's Manuscript Sources for the History of the West Indies (2000):

This is one of three collections that relate to the Cunningham family of Crookedstone Co. Atrim, and Belfast. Their main interest lies in the light they shed on the business activities of Samuel Cunningham in the West Indies. Cunningham established himself as a general merchant in Martinique in 1792 in partnership with John Gordon, and quickly consolidated his position with houses in several of the islands including Martinique and St Lucia. Samuel Cunningham was killed in an action against the French in 1796, shortly before his brother William arrived in Martinique, and the Cunningham-Gordon partnership was dissolved in 1797 after some bitterness and recrimination. D1108 - The greater part of these letters relate to Samuel Cunningham's business affairs in the West Indies, 1792 - 1797, although it is evident from a letter of 1828 that the family retained some business interests in the West Indies after Samuel's death.

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Conditions governing access: Please contact PRONI for further information

Conditions governing reproduction: Various - Please contact PRONI for futher information

Language/scripts of material: English

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Recorder's note: This record was indexed June 2002 MR

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 26/03/02

Interest: Caribbean

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Colonialism

Colonial countries

Trade

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Cunningham, Samuel

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Jamaica

Martinique