William Clayton Cunningham was born in Drakemyre, North Ayrshire, Scotland in 1765 (sometimes erroneously noted as 1776). He was the son of a tailor and the youngest of 3 children, James 1762-1785 and Isabella 1755-Unk (who may have married Andrew Squair and eloped to America) being the others. He left Scotland at age 18, eventually making his way to Albemarle County, Virginia where his sister Isabella lived. In 1795 he married Nancy Elizabeth Carr in Virginia and appears in the 1810 and other census records, eventually with his eleven children. In 1818 the family emigrated to Trigg County, Kentucky. Our family has been successfully traced forward - but we have not been able to confirm William's Scottish father, mother or grandparents. We THINK his father was also William and was married to a Susanna. It is often erroneously assumed he was part of the Earl of Glencairn line, but that line died out before his birth with a childless heir. Some of the family written history books and FAG list James and Elizabeth, also assuming the wrong historical lineage. This is a well known American family who populated most of Kentucky and intermarried with other pioneers. OK, Scottish members....do your thing!!!