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Quin

of Adare, Co.Limerick, and Quinsborough House, Co.Clare

• References:
  • DUNRAVEN in [Burkes Peerage]
  • HEADFORT in [Burkes Peerage]

  • Dunraven papers at [PRO.NI], D/3196.

Valentine Quin, of Adare, Co.Limerick,
born c.1692,
of old Irish family, did not conform to Protestantism until 1739 (the Gradys were a similar, recently-Catholic, old Irish family),
probably built the original Adare Manor (since replaced),
had issue:

1. Windham Quin of Adare, born 1717, had issue:
   1. Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven, of Adare, born 1752,
      mar 1777 to Muriel Fox Strangways and had issue.
      Ancestors of Earls of Dunraven, of the 19th cent. Gothic revival Adare Manor, see [Irish Country Houses].

   2. Rev. John Quin, mar 1784 to Catherine Grady.

   3. Catherine Quin, mar 1780 to Rev. Thomas Grady [born 1759] and had issue.

   
   

2. George Quin, born 1729,
   mar Caroline Cavendish [or Mary, dau of Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet, see WATERPARK in [Burkes Peerage], poss. relation of 3rd Duke of Devonshire],
   built Quinsborough House, Co.Clare, 1767,
   High Sheriff of Co.Clare 1770,
   died 1791, age 62 yrs [NOT 1829 - that is his son-in-law],
   had issue:
   1. Mary Quin, only child,
      mar Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort [died 1829] and had issue:
      1. George Taylour (later Quin),
         born 1792, educ Cambridge,
         younger son, adopted surname Quin 1813, inherited Quinsborough,
         mar Georgiana Spencer,
         sold Quinsborough House 1832,
         but retained the shooting lodge, also called "Quinsborough", a few miles to the NW, on side of Gallows Hill, between Ardnacrusha and Sixmilebridge, Co.Clare,
         in 1878 he gave his addresses as London and "Quinsborough, Sixmilebridge",
         the shooting lodge at Quinsborough, Sixmilebridge, is now a ruin,
         had issue:
         1. Rear-Admiral Richard Quin, born 1820.

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