QUINN / QUIN – Patrick Royal Artillery 8th Battalion and 25th Brigade Depot

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Name	QUINN / QUIN – Patrick
Regiment (s)	Royal Artillery 8th Battalion and 25th Brigade Depot
Regiment Number (s)	1
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	4th November 1846 / 18 years / Londonderry Ireland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 7 in Fair / Grey / Light Brown / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Cape of Good Hope – 6 years 202 days Bengal East Indies – 6 years 146 days
Length of Service	21 years 205 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Sergeant Major / 26th May 1868 / Netley Hampshire England
Campaign Medals	South African Medal 1834-1853 Kaffir Wars- Gunner or driver 4th Company 8th Battalion Royal Artillery
Intended Residence at Discharge	Ipswich England
Pension Districts	1868 Ipswich 1869 Woolwich 1871-1903 Western Australia
Pension Paid	2/6d per diem 1881 Increased to 2/11d per diem for service Enrolled Force Western Australia
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	6th October 1870 London England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	STRATHMORE 29th January 1871
Date/Place of Birth	c1828 Stranorlar Parish, Donegal, Ireland (near town of Fort Lebret)
Date/Place of Baptism	Not yet known
Father Date/Place of Birth	Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	Unknown Dorothea c1827 Cape of Good Hope South Africa
Date/Place of Marriage	Cape of Good Hope (deduced)
Children by 1^st Wife	Not yet known
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	UNKNOWN Henry
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	STEINBERG Dorothea
Land Grants Western Australia	Not Applicable
Occupation after Arrival	Not yet known
Newspaper Articles	Perth Gazette 3rd February 1871 – Shipping Intelligence Various articles September and October 1885 relating to conviction – see further information The West Australian Sat 7 Feb 1903 death at Fremantle Hospital
Departure from Western Australia	Not Applicable
Date/Place of Death/Burial	4th February 1903 Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia Buried Roman Catholic Section Fremantle Cemetery Western Australia
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	20th December 1905 Perth WA Buried Karrakatta Cemetery (Anglican)
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	1851 March – British Army, Worldwide Index – Royal Artillery: 8th Battalion – 4th Company Location: Woolwich & Purfleet In the 1861 Census P Quinn, age 33, an Artillery sergeant, born Ireland is living at the Sheerness Barracks Sheppey Kent with his wife D Quinn age 34 who was born at the Cape of Good Hope. 1869 Discharge notes exemplary conduct and possession of Medal and Gratuity for Long Service Leave and Good Conduct Discharge due to Asthemia (sic) Shipping Intelligence from newspaper 3rd February 1871 states “man and wife arrived”. 1880 Patrick Quinn is on the Nominal List for the Enrolled Guard living in the No 1 Barracks Fremantle with his wife (no children) 12th January 1881 Mrs Quinn wife of Sergeant Quinn one of the magazine warders has applied for the position of caretaker Government House Fremantle 24th January 1881 Sergeant Quinn has permission to leave the Barracks and live at Government house – his wife being appointed caretaker 8th April 1882 Allowance of £1 per month paid to Mrs Quinn caretaker of Government house 8th October 1885 Convicted of unlawfully carnally knowing a girl aged 10 years. Sentenced to 2 years in prison. Half pay suspended. Other half paid to wife 14th December 1885 Mrs Quinn the caretaker of Government Cottage Fremantle says her present allowance is insufficient £1 per month raised to £2 from 1st November. SROWA Cons 527 1890/883 Petition North Fremantle 2nd March 1890 Sir I humbly beg to solicit His Excellency’s kind favor (sic) hoping you will kindly recommend me for some employment, as I am very badly off/ I have been unfortunate in getting into trouble, after serving Her Majesty faithfully for nearly forty years. One false step – a step I will ever regret has blighted my past and future life. I would be glad of any situation even if the remuneration were only free quarters with my pension I might be able to live. I have to be Sir, Your Excellency’s obedient humble servant Patrick Quin, late Government Cottage 10th March 1890 Malcolm Fraser Inquire from Sergeant Major McCarthy is it practical to find a couple of rooms for Pensioner Quin anywhere in the barracks/ I really do not know what work he can do, will see if anything can be found for him. I thought he and his wife kept a shop. 14th March 1890 Sgt McCarthy I can let Patrick Quin have 2 rooms that were handed over to the Immigration Department temporary. 2nd March 1890 Patrick Quin Petitioned the Governor asking for employment as he was “very badly off” after committing what he describes as a false step. Although at a loss to find him employment he and his wife were allotted 2 rooms at the barracks 1891 Pensioner Quin and his wife are occupying 2 rooms at the Barracks Fremantle.