Friday's Photo: The John Quinn and Ann Hawkins Family of Labane, County Galway - 1929

Andrew, Frank, John Senior, an unidentified visitor, Maura, Ann, Joe, Jack, and William
Update: The unidentified visitor is William Joseph Quinn who left Ireland for the U.S. in 1921. His mother, Bridget Brannelly, died in 1929 and his passport shows he visited near that time.

This is the family of John Quinn and his wife, Ann Hawkins of Labane in Ardrahan, County Galway. I copied this when visiting John's grandson, Owen, in County Galway.[1]

This family is one of my brick walls. DNA, family stories, and a family photo tell that this Quinn family, of Labane, is connected to my husband's Quinn family who lived in the townland of Caherawoneen, near Kinvara in County Galway. However, records don't yet tell us how they are connected. 

John and Ann Quinn, with daughter Maura

John Quinn's parents were John Quinn and Sarah Burke. This is the earliest known generation of Quinns living in Labane.[2] 

The John Quinn, pictured above, had two sisters, Cecelia and Josephine, who came to the United States and lived in Boston.[3] In my husband's collection of family photos, there is a photo of Cecelia and her son John taken in Boston. My husband's Aunt Kitty identified Cecelia as her father's cousin.[4]

Andrew and Frank

My husband's cousin, Helen, told me about her parents' visit to the Frank Quinn family on a trip to Ireland in the 1950s. At the time, Frank and his wife, Maureen, had 17 well-behaved children. Two more children were born after the visit.[5] 

Joe

Joe lived for a while with my husband's grandfather, William Quinn, in New York City. Cousin Helen remembered Joe, his time in the Army, and even the name of his girlfriend.[6]  

Jack and William

William Joseph Quinn (1894-1959)

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Diana

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    1. Quinn-Hawkins Family, photograph, 1929; scanned image held by D.B. Quinn, 2022, from the privately held photo collection of Owen Quinn, Ireland, 2016.

    2. Photographed family trees drawn by Owen Quinn (Ireland), n.d.; photographs held by D. B. Quinn (VA), 2022. 

    3. Ibid.

    4. Cecilia Quinn Foley and John Foley, photograph, ca. 1943; scanned image held by D.B. Quinn, 2022, from the privately held photo collection of William Quinn, Virginia, 2022.

    5. Telephone conversations between H. Quinn (NY) and D. B. Quinn (VA), between 18 September 2020 and 29 December 2020. Transcript held in 2021 by D.B. Quinn (VA).

    6. Ibid.