On 02 August 1778, Thomas QUIN, aged 18, born "Armagh parish, Armagh city, Armagh county", joined the Royal Artillery, the "Detachment of 5 Company". The record of his "inlistment" gives a physical description of Thomas, and the fact that he could read and write.
Thomas was posted to Plymouth Dock, Devon, England, where he married Charlotta MASON in Dec. 1781. (She may have been born in Woolwich, Kent, home base of the Royal Artillery.) The couple apparently had at least two children. John Thomas QUIN was apparently born in Plymouth, Devon very shortly after the marriage, ~1782. William QUIN was born in Woolwich, Kent in 1787.
Thomas QUIN's regiment was shipped to Nova Scotia, and Thomas died there, in Halifax, in 1792.
I do not know what became of his wife Charlotta nor of their son William. Their son John Thomas QUIN, at the age of eleven, joined the Royal Artillery as a drummer and trumpeter. (He is my ancestor and I know the outline of his history, also of some of his descendants. Some descendants also joined the Royal Artillery.)
So far, the parentage and earlier history of Thomas QUIN of Armagh is unknown to me. I notice that in Bradshaw's Directory for 1819, there are some QUINs in English Street, Armagh, including a John and a Thomas, but I have no clue to whether they are related to my Thomas.
I also see that other members of this forum have QUIN or QUINN ancestors from Armagh. Does anyone have a QUIN family in Armagh 1700s with a son Thomas born approximately 1760?
Jane Elderfield
