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24. William Quinlan [283], son of Unknown and Unknown [423], was born in 1849 in Ireland and died on 26 Aug 1895 in St. Marys, Kansas at age 46.
General Notes: William Quinlan
His birth-place: His son Edward’s 1910 federal census entry gives his father’s place of birth as "Can - English." Edward’s 1920 federal census entry gives his father’s place of birth as Ireland. Edward’s entry in the 1930 federal census gives his father’s birth-place as Northern Ireland.
His birth-year: Barbara Harvey’s book on the Guyettes gives as the source of his birth-year (about 1849) "1880 and 1900 Kansas census records." (Sic; he would not appear in the latter census.) Affirmation of this birth year comes from his Mt. Calvary Cemetery grave-stone, which reads: "William Quinlan / Died 1895, aged 46 yrs".
The 1880 census entry, found through searching for "Wm Quinlan", reads as follows:
Wm. QUINLAN Household
Male
Birth Year <1850>
Birthplace IRE
Age 30 Occupation Farmer Marital Status M <Married>
RaceW <White>
Head of Household Wm. QUINLAN RelationSelf
Father’s BirthplaceIRE Mother’s BirthplaceIRE
Source Information: Census Place Washington, Jackson, Kansas
Family History Library Film1254383 NA Film NumberT9-0383 Page Number88D
According to this entry, William and his wife lived in Washington Township, Jackson County, Kansas, where he was a farmer. (Jackson County borders Jefferson County.) His wife’s name is given as M. Belle. Here their children George and Elinor appear. The other five, including my ancestor Edward, are not born yet.
This 1880 census entry is underneath three other Quinlans: Jeremiah, Bridget age 63 (or perhaps 65), and a Mary aged 23.
Crucial is how to read Jeremiah’s age. Ancestry.com’s index reads his age as 72 (b. c. 1808), Bridget’s as 65, and says that these three are a husband, wife, and daughter, although the entry does not so specify. An easier reading is 92 (b. c. 1788). The author of the entries is capable of making crisp, open 7s, nothing like 9s. But the digit admittedly does not look like his 9s either. If Jeremiah was Bridget’s husband, ancestry.com’s reading of his age in 1880 is probably correct, which means that the online index to his gravestone cannot be.
Is Jeremiah William’s father? The entry specifies Ireland as the birth-places of Jeremiah, Bridget and their parents. Mary, aged 23, was born in Canada. Jeremiah and Bridget should therefore have been in Canada circa 1857.
Jeremiah also appears in the online index to Mt. Calvary Cemetery, St. Marys (http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/pottawat/potcem7c.html#NAME), which lists, under the Quinlan surname, Alice M. (1891-1920), Bridget (1813-1893), Jeremiah (1800-1892), Margaret Bell (1861-1950), Mary (1854-1946), William (1849-1895), and William E (1915-1923). (The card index from the county library lists only five of those seven, lacking the first and last. According to Barbara Harvey’s book on the Guyette family, Michael and Lenora Guyette are buried there as well, with an inscription she herself purchased a century later.)
I conclude from William’s association with Jeremiah in both census and cemetery that there is an unknown relationship between them. William may therefore have entered the US via Canada, and should perhaps be sought there in the 1850s.
I do not find Jeremiah Quinlan with any certainty in Kansas in the 1870 census, nor do I see him in the 1860 census. (One does appear in Kansas with a circa 1810 birth year, in the company of a James, born circa 1845; both are in Walnut, Atchison, KS. This is a poor match.) I do find a Jeremiah about the right age (50) arriving in February 1849 aboard the Columbus, from Liverpool, with five female Quinlans, including one Mary. I also find a Jeremiah of not the right age with a Bridget, a William, and a large number of others aboard the America, arriving in 1851 from Liverpool.
According to the St. Mary’s Journal, Saturday, August 24, 1895: "William Quinlan living east of town fell into his cellar Thursday morning, and at last report was still unconscious." On Wednesday, August 28, 1895, the front page of the same paper reported, "William Quinlan who fell into his cellar last Thursday morning, died at his home Monday afternoon, not having regained consciousness since his fall." Burial was at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, St. Marys, Kansas.
William married Margaret Isabelle (Belle/Bell) Guyette [284]4 [MRIN: 180] on 28 Feb 1876 in Shawnee County, Kansas.
Children from this marriage were:
| 12 | i. | Edward William Quinlan [7] |
| ii. | George Quinlan [545] was born in 1877 in Kansas. | |
| iii. | Elinor Quinlan [544] was born in Jan 1880 in Kansas. |
