Re: Futility
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In reply to:
Futility
David Purcell 4/19/02
Hi David, I have been thinking about the Sheet Harbor group and I think it may have been one of the earliest of the Quillinan emigrations. They seem to have been in place there by at least the very early 1800's or the later 1700's. I agree that we should probably set up several databases for the different countries of immigration as, for example, I've been able to finally find more of us going to Australia than I had originally thought.
In the meantime, can you give us a bit of history of the Sheet Harbor settlement? That may give us a clue or two when the Quillinan's might have arrived there. For example, might any of the men enlisted in the British army have lived there? There was one Quillinan in the British army that either was killed or deserted in Canada. Would there have been any particular reason for the Irish to go there and at what period(s)? Railway construction? Mining? Have you been able to track the Purcels back into Ireland? Do you know about when they immigrated and where they were from?
Back to the database. In Canada, we seem to have the Sheet Harbor group, the Saskatchewan family and one in Quebec. In the US we have the NY group, the Chicago group, the Nevada group, the California group and the Texarkana group. We have several emigrating off to Australia. I think the British family comes from the Quillinan's who sailed with Don Juan from Kinsale and probably ended up in Portugal and then emigrated into England. The only Quillinan I can't seem to find even a hint about is the Donel Quillinan from Co. Sligo who was evicted by Cromwell. Don't know if he emigrated or stayed in Ireland.
It is not futile, we are just ancestrally challenged!
Janet Crawford
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