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a ® @ e it uinns and friends gathering in Castleton _ 7 ‘:Hfl‘afiflcu uU (/y /3//5'1â€" i & By Bos Owen E 2 ° & CM&P SraFe Werrer t | f mex" S j k . : % ; The descendants of William and Elizabeth Quin olk h ] | Pm 0. 0 j ‘ uk i S e 0 9 0 ~ will get together officially for the first time in three * t 5 Nee *s Bs years this July 20. W [ / ks , i «&1 6 William and Elizabeth emigrated from Glenavy ifte s ; ) e té 4 w e o | Parish, County Antrim, Ireland in 1841 just prior to %«"4.. e is m Fr eA L. t4 s the years of the potato famines. Famine and cholera d 7A m . 0s s C [ o viee © was prevalent. They left a country where the averâ€" | id . oc ulC C h tey" 3 © age lifespan was 19 years in rural areas. After a sixâ€" J fâ€" es 7 R | week sailing they stopped for a short time with their Y + Lo eP .‘ M ©lelsicr . eight children in Port Hope before homesteading on -_’-"»s“ ; i c~ v Pa cyta d \ a farm east of Hastings. | RXZ ie n t 7 frumiea io | They spent their first winter huddled together in f : * : : 4 pesuae: a shanty before building a 20 by 24 foot log house in | P ; oo >â€" en ki P 4r* me | the spring. Fam]ily member Roseanne Quinn has eviâ€" | _ Â¥, RA CX R . ol dence that William paid 43 pounds, is shillings to [ °WO ky _ C _ N M Fi. o t w 3 \ the Canada Company after bargaining for the deed | _ _\ > {g{; > v 8 w * A f to his Percy Township land on December 1, 1842. g?@,_,?_‘ m . 0 *) ies dn i Ten years after they arrived they had managed to | _ _ ...z 9 _ put 15 acres under cultivation, owned one cow, two || _ 7 ie ks ) 18 | sheep and seven pigs. The area was so recently setâ€" t. e *a,filz" omm : . ~,;1‘{“'; ns { tled that it was too far for the children to go to [‘ h ‘: m Pss e f s d s n B â€" As the children grew up they began to move | _ | “b. . C away. Remarkably, the family knows where all eight | | ig+. "flfi j 3 children are buried. As recently as 1970 the family |_ _ 3fl:vs§’, ;{g # i3 had a list of knownâ€"living relatives that included § eptagie BJ descendants of five of the eight children who surâ€" 1998. They are highly detailed and draw a mural of a + f vived childhood in that original family. farm life in simpler times. s s f $ 5 | Half of them were buried in Norwood. Two died In it are warm accounts of his grandparents. Clifâ€" i 5& L &..s o t o. 1 t t 6000 BP * . out west and William H. Quin the direct ancestor of ford seemed to be in awe of his grandmother who M n h nmmtoree i Aoe S Roseanne Quinn and John Carter, was buried in _ COUld make a band and tie a sheaf of grain, throw it e ie Prots courtesy Rosemwine Qunin _ Castleton. A copy of his 1834 baptismal certificate is 1" the air and have another one tied before the first LEFT: Daddy‘s girl â€" Roseanne Quinn in her father Clifford‘s arms in the in Roseanne‘s files. hit the ground. f early fifties. Roseanne relates the story of the family finding His father‘s first car was a 1923 Ford Model T. ABOVE: William H. Quin and.his wife Mary Ann sat for this picture someâ€" the grave sites of the original Quins. For 20 years Chfford remembers his dad driving home late one . time after they were married in 1865. Charles Quinn and his son Clifford scoured cemeterâ€" â€" Dight from the Barnum and Bailey Circus in a s ies throughout this area with Belleville. The car acted up and his dad stopped at _ T2 / Bill and Harold Quinn looking. [ ~~~~~y~~â€"mays the Wooler Garage. No one was in so his for the graves of William and | _ Ify¢. 4 dad got several gallons of gas and left t Elizabeth. Their persistence | _‘ ,"/ "‘* firdtfr 0 ) the money inside the unlocked building I was rewarded in 1968 when Clif |__â€" */*~ L7 ty orr WE for the owner. f ford and Bill waded through | _ {A7} p uk #§H _ The motor from their second car was a i «WILLIA Y 0. [Fif!, MWW) removed and used f ing machi eep snow in the Norwood s ) 1J1/!, MB removed and used for a sawing machine Cemetery to find their resting TY T a at rg3 4) / 3 , /7fi when the car was discarded. . place. At the same time they Th iA 117. §i| _ Getting to town in the winter was a * found the grave of Helena Quin, |_ § s oS U) different experience as they hitched up the first wife of Thomas |_â€" (FzrarL Â¥0.73% 57. the sleigh and went cross country for p McMurtry. After her death at | = 0_ â€" _ /â€" I 20| parts of the trip to sell produce. age 23, Thomas married her |, _ u‘j_fl‘fff-lr e _ Every March they would go to Castleâ€" younger sister Jane. :. 1e e ) ton Pond and cut ice for summer use. "~_ The family tree traces the |fj #7 1 4y r/vri°© SÂ¥ The horses would pull loads of them family through five generations wik â€" t bacl; to the ice house where it would be and notes the births and deaths We c O Zemrecomer o mdns 5 purled and covered with sawdust. The and spouses of even those in the wel se : ice lasted until August. first two generations. « k One year the horses fell through the But this year‘s reunion will â€" ice. They were unhitched and pulled out find mostly descendants of [W safely. William H. Quin. Those from | _ In 1942 tractors were used for the the early generations who o aos e | first time to cultivate. It was the beginâ€" moved west have been lost. S . ho hoi albe ning of the end for the draught horse. o dfi The early models ploughed about an _o There are no known pictures of actoan houl', the original Quin parents, only this marker in the Norwood