Here's a little history on Mary's family prior to her marriage.

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Mary's father was John Quin born in Ballytrodden, County Armagh on the 14th of September 1803. When he was 21 years old he married Mary's mother Elizabeth McGrange in Clonfeacle, Tyrone and Armagh on the 27th of December 1824. John's father, James Quin (Born 1769) held the title for the farm in Ballytroddon and when he died this was passed on to John. 

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John and Elizabeth had 9 children all born in Clonfeacle, Tyrone and Armagh, Ireland:

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1. John Quin born on the 25th of May 1825. He married Margaret Peel in Lisburn, Ireland on the 22nd of March 1848.

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2. Henricus Quin born on the 17th of October 1827. He married Bridget Campbell sometime before 1855 and they had seven children:

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- Elizabeth Quin born in the Parish of Clonfeacle County Armagh on the 9th of November 1856. She married Daniel Stuart at  St. Peters R.C. Church Lurgan Co. Armagh on the 1st of March 1881. They lived at 28 Crocus Street, Falls, Antrim, Belfast and had three sons:

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- James Stuart born 1883

- Daniel Stuart born 1885

- Henry Stuart born 1891

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Elizabeth's husband Daniel must have died before 1901 although I have never been able to find a death certificate. E​lizabeth next married Herbert Emmett, a Teacher born in England in 1903. Herbert had previously been married to Ellen McAleese and had a son Herbert Jnr born in 1872.

 

By 1911 Elizabeth and Herbert were living at 7 Dunlewey Street, Falls, Antrim and had four children (they had six children in total, however two had died as infants)

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- Edward M Emmett born 1904 in the City of Belfast

- Mary E Emmett born 1905 in the City of Belfast

- Bridget Emmett born 1906 in the City of Belfast

- Frances J Emmett born 1909 in the City of Belfast

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Elizabeth Emmett (nee Quin) died on the 8th of March 1941 at 29 Sevastapool Street, Ireland. She was 84 years old.

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- Margaret Quin born in Drumcree, County Armagh, Ireland on the 27th of February 1858

- John Quin born in Drumcree, County Armagh, Ireland on the 4th of August 1861

- Rose Quin born in Portadown, County Armagh Ireland on the 27th of September 1864

- Henry Quin born in Portadown, County Armagh Ireland on the 15th of June 1866

- Patrick Quin born in Drumcree, County Armagh, Ireland on the 17th of February 1868. He died the same year.

- Patrick Quin born in Drumcree, County Armagh, Ireland on the 24th of October 1869

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3. Eliza Quin born on the 30th of June 1829

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4. Margaret Quin born on the 16th of June 1831. She married Owen Cullen at Clonfeacle, Tyrone and Armagh, Ireland on the 22nd of November 1853. Owen was the son of Rodger Cullen and Catherine Clarke born in Armagh, Ireland on the 29th of May 1825.

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Their children:

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- Annie Cullen born in Armagh Parish, Co. Armagh, Ireland on the 30th of August 1854. Annie married James McGilly at the Tartaraghan Roman Catholic Church, Armagh on the 8th of October 1882. Little is currently known about their life. They had seven children:

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- Francis McGilly born in Armagh, Ireland on the 1st of August 1883

- Mary Elizabeth McGilly born in Armagh, Ireland on the 30th of September 1885

- James Patrick McGilly born in Armagh, Ireland on the 26th of June 1887

- Bernard McGilly born in Armagh, Ireland on the 4th of June 1889

- Eugene McGilly born in Armagh, Ireland on the 12th of May 1891

- Anna Maria (Annie) McGilly born in Armagh, Ireland on the 18th of December 1893

- Margaret Rose McGilly born in Armagh, Ireland on the 2nd of September 1895

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- John Henry Cullen born in Tulleysarron, Ireland in 1856. Married Margaret McHenry in Ballymoney in 1879. Little is currently known about their life. They had five children: 

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- John Henry Cullen born at Charlotte Street, Ballymoney on the 1st of February 1880

- Mary Cullen born in Ballymoney in 1885

- Margaret Cullen born in Ballymoney in 1888

- Patrick Cullen born in Ballymoney in 1891

- Elizabeth Cullen born in Ballymoney in 1894

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- Dennis Quinn Cullen born in Armagh on the 9th of April 1858. Denis immigrated from Ireland to New York, USA in 1877 aged 19 years.  He initially worked as a laborer and boarded with Elias Farnum and his family  in North Salem, Westchester, New York. He first married Susan Ann Kelley in 1885 and they had three children together:

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- Mary Francis Cullen born on the 30th of May 1886 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA. From a young age Mary was in a relationship with Edward Boston Mower. They had three sons before finally getting married in 1920 at 332 East 2nd Street, Galesburg, Illinois. A fourth son followed:

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- Robert F Mower born on the 31st of December 1909. He married Elaine Ericson and had two children:

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- Roberta Mower born on the 17th of December 1949 in Peoria County Illinois.

- Edward (Ed) Mower

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- Howard Edward Mower born on the 5th of November 1911. He married Mary Payne and had two children:

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- Howard Payne Mower born the 11th of August 1943. He married Susan Elam and they had two children:

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- Mark P Mower

- Amy Mower. Her partner is Luther Brookshire

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- Ellen Mower. She married John Spittell

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- Jerome W (Jerry) Mower born on the 18th of June 1916. He married Helen Hatcher in Vandalia, Missouri on the 2nd of October 1939. They lived in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois and had two children:

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- Linda Mower born on the 7th of December 1946. She married Oral Goble on the 22nd of December 1979 and they had one son Christopher Goble. Linda Goble (nee Mower) died at Coral Gables, Florida on the 3rd of April 2018 from Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease. A rare and fatal condition that affects the brain. It causes brain damage that worsens rapidly over time. She was 71 years old.

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- Carol Mower. She married Rick Heath and they had one son Ryan Heath.

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Helen Mower (nee Hatcher) died in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois on the 12th of June 1998. Jerry Mower died on the 5th of October 2006. He attended Galesburg schools and served in the US Army in the A-176th Armored Medical Battalion as a staff sergeant, trained as a medical technician and received 2 bronze stars. He served in New Guinea and the Philippines. He was a salesman for Distillers and Brewers Sales Co. for many years and was the founder/owner of Big 10 Liquor in Galesburg until his retirement in 1977. He was a 65-year member of Ralph M. Noble American Legion Post #285. Jerry was also a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church.

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Francis (Frank) Daniel Mower born on the 11th of September 1925. He married Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Burke in Galesburg on the 15th of June 1945. They had six children:

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- Michael (Mike) Mower bon in 1947. He married Victoria (Vicki) McPheeters in Kewanee Henry County Illinois in 1947. 

- Mary Christine Mower born 1955

- Mark Edward Mower born 1961

- Susan (Sue) Mower

- Karen Mower. She married Gary Clark

- Jeff Mower

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Frank Mower died at Kewanee Henry County, Illinois, USA on the 11th of April 2015

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-John Henry Cullen born on the 6th of September 1889 in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States

- Francis Joseph (Midge) Cullen born on the 1st of January 1892 in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States

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Susan Cullen (nee Kelley) died in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois on the 4th of December 1895. On the 15th of June 1896 Dennis remarried Mary Agnes Freeman.

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Their children:

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 -Maurice Owen Cullen born on the 5th of September 1897. He married Ruth Iren Warfield in Warren, Illinois, United States on the 11th of January 1924. 

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They had one son:

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- Patrick Owen Cullen born on the 11th of November 1925 in Knox County, Illinois. He enlisted in the US Army at the age of 17  in July 1943. He died aged 56 n 1982 and is buried at Section 1 Site 89, Riverside National Cemetery, 22495 Van Buren Boulevard Riverside, CA 92518

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- Owen Dennis Cullen born on the 31st of March 1900. He died in Chicago on the 9th of June 1989. He was 89 years old.

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- Anna C Cullen born on the 9th of April 1906. She married Dale Cibert in 1924. The marriage produced one daughter but didn't last.

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- Phyllis M Cibert born 1925

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Anna next married Robert Hagan on November 10th, 1930 at Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States. They set up home at 2825 Washington, Blvd, Galesburg, Knox, Illinois and had four daughters:

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- Joan Hagan born in 1934. She died as an infant on the 1st of September 1935 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.

- Des Hagan 

- Eleanor Hagan

- Denise Hagan

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- Margaret Cullen born and died in 1910.

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- Patrick James Cullen born in Tullygarran, County Armagh, Ireland on the 12th of March 1863. Like his brother Dennis he immigrated from Ireland to the USA. He married Ann Elizabeth McLaughlin in New Jersey, USA in 1888. She was originally from Neilston, Barrhead, Scotland. They had eight children:

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- John Cullen born 1889

- Anna Elizabeth Cullen born 1891

- Margaret Francis Cullen born 1893

- Jenny Theresa Cullen born 1895

- Mary Agnes Cullen born 1897

- Dennis Eugene Cullen born 1902

- Verna May Cullen born 1905

- William James Cullen born 1909

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- Elizabeth Cullen born in Blackwatertown, Armagh, Ireland on the 1st of January 1865. She died in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA in 1933.

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- Eugene Cullen born in Blackwatertown, Armagh, Ireland on the 25th of March 1867. He married Alice Hamill at St Johns R.C Chapel, Eglish Road, Tartaraghan, Armagh on the 27th of October 1896. They lived in Diviny, Breagh, Armagh, Ireland where Eugene was a school teacher. They had two daughters:

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- Mary Cullen born on the 1st of September 1897 

- Annie Cullen born 1902

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Alice Cullen (nee Hamill) died on the 6th of April 1935. Eugene Cullen died on the 4th of November 1948.

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- Joseph Cullen born in County Armagh in 1869. Like his brother Eugene, Joseph was a school teacher. He married twice. First to Mary (Minni) Corr on the 15th of February 1900 in Derrytresk, Ireland. They had one son together before Mary's untimely death.

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- Eugene Cullen born in Derrytresk, Ireland on the 8th of December 1900.

His mother Mary died in childbirth.

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Joseph Cullen then married Annie O'Hagan in Derrytresk, Ireland on the 29th of January 1902.

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They had five children together:

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- Patrick Aloysins Cullen born 1902

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Joseph Stanislaus Cullen born 1905. He died at Shelbourne Hostel, Coventry, England where he was working in November 1947 - Usual residence Carland, Dungannon, Tyrone. His death was reported to his father, Joseph Cullen, a retired school teacher.

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- Leo Francis Cullen born 1906

- Malachy Cullen born 1909

- Maureen Cullen born 1910

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- Francis (Frank) Cullen born in Blackwatertown, Armagh, Ireland on the 12th of December 1871. He was a farmer in Tullygarron, Grange, Armagh, Ireland. He married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mallon on the 5th of February 1901 in Dungannon, Tyrone, Ireland. They had five children:

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- Owen Cullen born 1902. He immigrated from Ireland on board the Columbia, Londonderry to New York on the 8th of October 1922. He was 20 years old. By 1930 he was living at 29 East 52nd Street, New York, USA. Living as a boarder with Mrs Mary Laughran, her daughter May and fellow boarders James Carr, Brother Thomas, Joseph and Patrick Igo. Owen was a chauffeur to Mrs Laughran

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- Margaret Cullen born in 1903

- John J Cullen born in 1904

- Denis Cullen born 1906

- Patrick Cullen born 1907

- Thomas Cullen born 1911. He married Kathleen Corr.

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- Annie Cullen born in Tulleysarron, Ireland in 1872.

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- Peter Cullen born in Tulleysarron, Ireland in 1873. He died at Steamboat Springs, Routt, Colorado, United States in September 1950.

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- Owen Cullen born in County Armagh in 1874. He died in Armagh County, Ireland in 1954.

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- Michael Thomas Cullen born in County Armagh on the 22nd of January 1875. He died as an infant the following year.

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5. Mary Quin born on the 31st of July 1833 - My direct ancestor. Click HERE for her story

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6. Michael Quin born on the 14th of September 1834. He married Jane Lavelle and they lived at 38 Main Street in Ballybay, County Monaghan where he was a baker. 

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Their children:

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- John Quinn born in Ballybay, County Monaghan in 1875. John followed in his fathers footsteps and worked with him as a baker. He married Mary Jane Nisbett and had four children:

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- Marion Genevieve (Jennie) Quinn born on the 23rd of August 1914 in Ballybay, County Monaghan. She worked as a midwife and married James Desmond Monaghan in Belfast on the 14th of July 1943. He worked as a clerk at the Ministry of Health and Social Services. They had one son:

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- Desmond Monaghan born in 1949

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James Desmond Monaghan died in Belfast on the 4th of December 1977. Marion died the following year on the 30th of November 1978, They are buried together at Miltown Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast, Co.Antrim.

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- Teresa Quinn. She married Patrick Woulfe

- Rosaleen Quinn

- Gerard Quinn

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- Elizabeth Quinn born in Ballybay, County Monaghan on the 25th of August 1877

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- Roseann Quinn born in Ballybay, County Monaghan in 1881

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7. Rosy Ann Quin born on the 21st of September 1836

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8. Patrick Quin born the 14th of January 1839. Patrick joined the Army - Second Battalion 18 Royal Irish Regiment of Foot Camp and was based at Shorncliff, Cheriton, Kent, England. He married Bridget Alice Campbell in Armagh on the 26th of July 1866 and they settled in Blackwatertown, Armagh

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Their Children:

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- John Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh on the 17th of May 1867

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- Margaret Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh on the 20th of February 1869. She immigrated from  Ireland to the USA in 1885. She married Martin Flanagan in the USA in 1888. He was also Irish.  They had three daughters together before Martin's untimely death.

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- Margaret Flanagan born August 1889 in New York.

- Mary T Flanagan born August 1895 in New York.

- Georgia Emma Flanigan born on the 16th of January 1898 at St. Antonii, New York

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Martin Flanigan died in New York on the 2nd of December 1898. Margaret next married John Rinn in 1899.

They had three daughters:

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- Anna Rinn born April 1900

- Bridget Rinn born 1902

- Helen Rinn

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John Rinn died in New York in 1906. Margaret remarried again.

She married Charles Walter Bock at 113 Washington Street, Hoboken, New Jersey on the 6th of November 1907. He was from Hamburg, Germany. They had 2 sons:

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- Walter Bock born 1909

- Richard Bock born 1914

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Charles Walter Bock died on the 19th of June 1926 at Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States.

Margaret Bock (nee Quin) died at Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States on the 30th of May 1930. 

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- Michael Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh on the 7th of February 1871

- Elizabeth Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh on the 19th of February 1873

- Mary Ann Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh on the 2nd of June 1875

- Catherine (Kitty) Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh in 1877

- Bridget Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh on the 29th of March 1879

- Agnes Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh on the 30th of March 1881

- Sarah Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh in 1883

- Alice Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh in 1886

- Rose Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh in 1886

- Patrick Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh in 1888

- Susan Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh in 1889

- Theresa (Tessie) Quin born in Blackwatertown, Armagh in 1891

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9. Charles Quin born on the 31st of January 1841. He married Sarah and they had 3 daughters together:

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- Margaret Quin born in 1881

- Sarah Quin born in 1890

- Mary Quin born in 1898

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There is a field in the area known as the famine field and the local historian says it was a field owned by John Quin. Apparently in the late 1840's John obtained a bag of flour during the famine. He was unable to pay for the flour with cash and the field was seized in payment for the bag of flour. As a result it was known locally as the famine field. 

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Despite the poverty they lived in, both John and Elizabeth lived well past life expectancy of the time. Elizabeth Quin (nee McGrange) died in Clonfeacle on the 10th of May 1874. She was 74 years old. John Quin died in Ballytrodden, Co. Armagh on the 1st of September 1880. He was 76 years old.