James (Sheriff-Clerk of Hamilton) Cunison

- 1816

• Name	James (Sheriff-Clerk of Hamilton) Cunison
  Gender	Male
  Death	1816	Jerviston, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Person ID	I143672	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Jun 2020

  
  

  Family	Unknown   d. Abt 1835
  Children	1. Anne Cunison,   b. Abt 1745   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F56091	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2019

  
  

• Notes

  After Cunison's death at Jerviston in 1816, his widow lived on in the house until the 1830s. Jerviston was inherited by his daughter Anne, the wife of William Drysdale, Town Clerk of Kirkcaldy, who had acquired the estate of Pitteuchar in Fife in the eady 1800s. The Drysdales cleady believed in keeping lucrative public posts in the family. William Drysdale's eldest son John Drysdale, a Kirkaldy lawyer, succeeded his grandfather James Cunison as Sheriff-Clerk of Lanarkshire in 1812, and held the post for 61 years till his death in 1873. He also succeeded to the post of Town Clerk of Kirkcaldy on the death of his father.