Patrick Quinn was the first of our Quinn family to arrive in Australia. In the 1830's he shipped to Sydney Town then married at Five Islands on Lake Macquarie Selina Lought. Patrick died in Glen Innes in 1989 aged 74 years. His working life involved him as a Sawyer and a Bell Man. He also prospected for Gold. These few facts are augmented by newspaper articles published about his first son Hugh Quinnin in the Glen Innes Examiner to tell this tale as seen through the eyes of Hugh Quinn 1842 - 1915. 


Underlined Links below are to the storytext     (pdf document size   date uploaded) 

                                          

Home among the gum trees

  

     1835 - 1860 

 

Chapter 1 From Sea to Tree.                   (pdf 395 kb     02/06/2016)    

Ch 1 web page

    

Chapter 2 Through to the Tableland        (pdf 552 kb     02/06/2016)

Ch 2 web page

   

Chapter 3  Forest Deep & Dark              (pdf 1251 kb     02/06/2016)

Ch 3 web page

  

Chapter 4 Living with Lodi                      (pdf 909 kb     02/06/2016)          

Chapter 5 Death how Deep your Sting    (pdf 1058 kb     02/06/2016)

     


    1861 - 1870 

 

Chapter 6 Pony Express to the Tableland  (pdf 1491 kb     02/06/2016)  

      

Chapter 7 Myth and Mystery                    (pdf 1081 kb      02/06/2016) 

     

Chapter 8 Pope Power and Princes            (pdf 779 kb      02/06/2016)

     

Chapter 9 Woolley Law in a Beardy Land   (pdf 495 kb      03/03/2016)

      


   1871 - 1880 

 

Chapter 10 Growing Glen Innes                  (pdf  492 kb   03/03/2016)

     

Chapter 11 Quinn's Rail Route                    (pdf  907 kb   03/03/2016)

     

Chapter 12 Progress in The Glen                (pdf 1070 kb   03/03/2016)

     

Chapter 13 Quinn's Find Kingsgate #1          (pdf  801 kb   03/03/2016)
     

  1881 - 1920

 

Chapter 14  Diggers Dead & Dirty                (pdf  924 kb  09/03/2016)

     
Chapter 15 Forever Blowing Bubbles            (pdf not on line 03/03/2016) 

     

Map published 1895 ? Quinn's Route 1875       (jpg   532 kb  22/12/2013)


Chapters 16 to 18 are off line and in process of major edit as at 21/12/2014


Chapter 16 Railway Arrives in the Glen                 (pdf 1400 kb   19/11/2014)

 

Chapter 17 Silver Threads & Golden Oldies           (pdf  780 kb  20/12/2013) 

 

Chapter 18 Sydney Ferry to WW 1


Chapter 19 Towards a Final Solution                     (pdf  1000 kb  19/11/2014)

 

Quinnstory on the web Testing        02/06/2016


Merrylands, A nest in the West                             (pdf 2.3 Mb       09/02/2013)

 

           This publication was originally at Woden Seniors

 

 

 

Descendants of Patrick Quinn: First 4 Generations   (pdf 1.1 Mb 15/02/2013)   

 

 

 Underlined Audio Links will link to chapter Audio files. (NB not yet)

Both Text and Audio files are in process of final edit.

Feedback is appreciated  


 

 

 

His story as told by Hugh Quinn, his eldest son (1842 - 1915) records the rigors of Pioneering life in the coastal rain forests and the New England Table Land between the coloniatl centres of Sydney Town and Moreton Bay (Brisbane)