Patrick Quinn & Catherine (?) Clark had 6 children who were all born in Tullyroe near Ballygar, County Galway, Ireland.1 The parish records for Ballygar note Patrick Quinn of Tully West married Bridget Clarke on 24 November 1812 . Edmund Clark and John Quin were witnesses.2 Patrick was a blacksmith3 who died February 8, 1850 in Ireland.4 Tithe Applotment books indicate a Patrick Quinn in the townland of Tullyroe and Griffith’s Valuation notes several Quinns occupying land in Tullyroe. 5 1) Michael Quinn was born 18 September 1813. He married Mary Norton 19 February 1844 in Ireland and they had eleven children. He died 21 April 1887 in South Newmarket, New Hampshire. (QB & Death Certificate). He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Newmarket, NH with his wife and five children. Also there are four other Quinn relatives. 2) Patrick H. Quinn was born November 20, 1815. (QB) The Ballygar Church records noted his baptism on November 27, 1815. George Clarke and Sara Conley were the godparents who lived in Tully. (See Matthew Carney’s account of his life.) He died 27 March 1891 in South Newmarket. (QB). He is buried in Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Lawrence, MA with his wife and two unmarried children. ← 3) James Quinn was born April 25, 1817. (QB). He married in Providence, R.I. in 1843, later settled in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. He died there 2 Sept. 1905 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in S. Portland, with his wife, a daughter who married but died young, and a husband of his other daughter who also died young. A single son, who married and died young is buried with his wife in another plot there. ← 4) Honor Quinn was born 15(13?) September 1820 and baptized 26 September 1820 as Honoria in the parish of Ballygar. Her godparents were Bernard and Appolinia Gilmore who also lived in Tully. (QRR). She married a man named __ FitzMaurice according to notes by Mollie McGuire Carney. ← 1 Quinn Family Bible (QB) in possession of Kathleen Stanton, Bayside, CA 2 Quinn Research Report, 2003, East Galway Family History Society (QRR) 3 Michael Quinn Death Certificate 21 April 1887 FamilySearch 4 QB 5 QRR
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5) Catherine Quinn was born 30 April 1822 and baptized the following year on 20 April 1823. Her godfather was Michael Quinn (her older brother?) and godmother, Eleonora Clarke of Tully. (QRR). She married Thomas Kenney according to notes by Mollie McGuire Carney. ← 6) Thomas Quinn b. 27 April 1826. d. 7 Aug. 1863, S. New Market (QB). He is buried in Dover, N.H. according to notes by Mollie M. Carney. Michael Quinn was the eldest of Patrick and Catherine’s six children. He married Mary Norton 19 February 1844 in Ireland and they had eleven children. (QB) The first four were born in Ireland, the next six were born in South Newmarket, New Hampshire and their youngest child, Charles M. (H?) Quinn, was born in Portland, Maine. Their eleven children were: Patrick H. Quinn Margaret L. Quinn James E. Quinn John T. Quinn Andrew J. Quinn Mary Quinn George W. Quinn Helen A. Quinn Frank J. Quinn Edwin A. Quinn Charles M. Quinn
b. 19 January 1845 b. 7 May 1846 b. 12 April 1848 b. 5 June 1850 b. 16 March 1852 b. 7 August 1854 b. 23 October 1858 b. 14 Febr. 1862 b. 4 March 1865 b. 26 February 1867 b. 21 February 1870
d. 29 Sept. 1909 in Newfields, NH d. 2 January 1923 d. 17 Sept. 1919 in Boston, MA d. 14 Oct. 1938 in Oakland, CA d. 16 Nov. 1853 in S. Newmarket d. 28 Sept. 1950 in Manchester, NH d. 25 Dec. 1889, East Boston, MA d. 6 August 1945 d. 11 Sept. 1888, Sacramento, CA d. 2 January 1954 in Boston, MA d. 4 March 1870, Portland, Maine
Michael Quinn died 21 April 1887 in S. Newmarket of Chronic Rheumatism at the age of 73. His wife, Mary, died in Boston 15 March 1904 after being sick several weeks with Bronchial Pneumonia. She lived at 87 School St and was 79 years old. 6
1) Patrick H. Quinn married Margaretta “Maggie” F. Hanley 7 May 1868, Portsmouth, NH. He died 29 September 1909 in S. Newmarket. (QB) They had three sons, the eldest and youngest of whom died as infants: George H. Quinn b.18 Feb. 1869 death noted in Bible n.d. Daniel J. Quinn b. Nov. 1870 John Quinn b. March 1872 d. Portland 6 Death Certificates, Family Search
4) John Thomas Quinn married Mary Jane Boland in San Rafael, California on 13 August 1882 and they had six children: (QB) Alice Mary Quinn b. August James Joseph Francis Stuart John Chester Theodore Gertrude b. 13 Sept. 1894 d. 9 April 1989 6) Mary Quinn entered the convent of the Sisters of Mercy in 1885 in Manchester, N.H. She died 24 October 1950 in Manchester, NH at age 96. (QB) 7) George H. Quinn married Agnes Carey 27 Jan. ? (QB) 10) Edwin A. Quinn married Kate BelleWalton (BelleMalton?) in Boston November 1896. (QB)
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