The Crew
Townlands are located a few miles southwest of Glenavy, County Antrim, Northern
Ireland, via the Crewe Rd. It was here that William Harold Quinn (1789-1850)
and his wife Elizabeth (Betsy) Saunders (1798-1863) owned a modest flax farm,
where their 10 children were born (view
details of the family tree online).
The Quinn farm
was an average size, 17 Irish acres, 1 rood, 12 perches which is about
28 of our acres. Our acre is 4840, while an Irish acre is 7840 sq. yards, (1.62
times larger.)
The old Quinn
home (Lot #12) is the barn on the right and it still stands at 53 Crewe Rd,
Glenavy, Crumlin BT29 4NG, UK. It’s well worth a look on Google/streetview.
William and Elizabeth,
along with their entire family, emigrated to Percy Township, Northumberland
County, Canada West (Ontario) in the early 1840s. Their daughter, Mary Quinn, married James Allen McConnell in Dummer Township,
Peterborough County, in August 1844. The Saunders brothers, John and William,
left neighbouring farms and emigrated at about the same time. New owners were
recorded in the Crew allotment records. Little trace of either the Quinn or
Saunders families remained and the past was murky.
To learn more
about the Irish ancestry of the Quinn and Saunders Ancestral Farms in Crew
Townlands, Glenavy, County Antrim, download
the article by Dan L. Reid, 2017 and visit the
following online sites:
