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Alan Francis Cunningham (1912 - 2005)

Alan Francis Cunningham
Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australiamap
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Died at age 93 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australiamap
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Biography

Family historian & raconteur. Main informer for info on this entire branch of family.

Radio operator and technician - HMAN dockyard, Dept Civil Aviation, New Guinea Administration; “retired” in 1964 and became a trawler fisherman till 1971. Travelled Australia, living at Mermaid Beach “when he was home”.

Has been Y-DNA tested with Family Tree DNA. (contact O'Brien-6991 for further information)

Radio Biography

  • Cunningham, Alan Francis [1] - 1912(Vic)-2005(Vic)93yo - Licences: 3OV Melbourne (Altona, 1947-1948) - Qualifications: cc; AOCP 2429, 1940, Vic; 2COCP 1265, 1953 - amateur operator; WW2 - Electoral Rolls: boilermaker (Newport, Vic, 1934-1942); radio mechanic (Altona, Vic, 1949); PNG, 1950s?; technician (Redcliffe, Qld, 1963); fisherman (Second Beach, Cairns, Qld, 1968); technician (Nelly Bay, Qld, 1972); retired (Mermaid Beach, Qld, 1977-1980)

https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies&stable=0#CUNNINGHAM

Sources

  • Personal conversations & correspondence with Alan from around 1985 to 2005.




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DNA Connections
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  • Alan Cunningham: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M512, FTDNA kit #20799
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Alan is 20 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 34 degrees from Carl Sagan, 28 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 35 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 26 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 24 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 23 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 20 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 25 degrees from Isaac Newton, 30 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 21 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 20 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.

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