Describe the cunninghams

"...  the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county."

The Cunninghams were from a small town called Old Sarum, a huge family in the north part of the county.

The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state; one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn.