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Richard Quin, John Quin or Coyn, James Quin sons of Thady Quin, Esq. 1645–1726

Thady Quin, Esq. (1645–1726) of Gortfadda, County Leitrim dated 23 February 1721, transferred the following land to Thady's eldest son, Valentine Quin with the Right Rev. John Coyn, or Quin, D.D., Bishop of Limerick in the reign of Henry the Eighth, but who resigned the see on account of his blindness and infirmity. 

The first mention of a manor on the land is following the Norman invasion of Ireland. In 1226, King Henry III gave a grant to Justiciary of Ireland Geoffroi de Morreis (de Marisco) to hold an eight-day annual fair following the Feast of St. James at his Manor of Adare.[4]

The lands subsequently were granted to the Earls of Kildare, members of the Welsh-Norman FitzGerald family who came to Ireland in 1169. In 1536, the act of attainder was passed against Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, whose lands, castles and manors were forfeited to the crown.

In a letter dated 24 March 1547, the boy king Edward VI granted the Earls of Desmond "the manors and dominions of Croom and Adare, in the county of Limerick, to hold for life."[5]The grant was short lived; the Desmond Rebellions brought control of the lands to the St. Leger family. For the next century, the lands passed from 10 families: St. Leger, Zouch, Gold, Rigges, Wallop, Norreis (Norris), Jephson, Evans, Ormesby (Ormsby), and then Quin.[6]

Thady Quin, Esq. (1645–1726) of Gortfadda, County Leitrim, purchased the moiety in 1669 and continued to add surrounding land through 1702. He received the last land grant for Adare, on 16 December 1684, to hold the lands for a thousand years, "paying to Gilbert Ormsby and his heirs the rent of £230."[7] The earliest section of the first manor house was presumably a square or oblong tower, likely erected by Thady Quin at the end of the 17th century.[4]

The deed of conveyance, dated 23 February 1721, transferred the following land to Thady's eldest son, Valentine Quin.

The estate of Adare extended northwards nearly to the Shannon, and comprehended a considerable portion of the parishes of Kildimo and Chapelrussell, and the north-western section of Adare situate in the barony of Coshma, with a portion of Drehidtarsna, and parts of Kilkeedy and Croom, lying in the barony of Pubblebrien. The Manor of Tobernea was situate in the south-eastern part of the county, embracing the extreme southern portion of the barony of Coshma, with the adjacent part of Coshlea, and contained a considerable part of the parishes of Effin, Ballingarry, and Kilbreedy Minor

— Caroline Wyndham-Quin, Countess of Dunraven, Memorials of Adare Manor, 1865

Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 1st Baronet (30 July 1752 – 24 August 1824) was an Irish peer and politician.

He was the son of Windham Quin, Esq. of Adare, and Frances Dawson. His grandfather had added to the family's wealth and estates by marriage to the heiress Mary Widenham of Kildimo.

He was created a Baronet in 1781. He was elected in 1799 as Member of Parliament for his father's old seat Kilmallock to the Irish House of Commons, sitting until the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1800/01.

He was created Baron Adare on 31 July 1800 – as a staunch supporter of the political union, he was recommended by Lord Cornwallis – Viscount Mount-Earl on 3 February 1816, and Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl on 5 February 1822, all titles in the Peerage of Ireland. He presumably chose the title of Dunraven in honour of his daughter-in-law, the heiress Caroline Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, who had married his eldest son in 1810. His earldom lasted only two years until his death in 1824, when his son, Windham Henry Quin, became the 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl. The family name had officially become Wyndham-Quin in 1815.

He married firstly Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways, daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Horner, on 24 August 1777. They had the following children:

• Lady Harriet Quin (d. 13 December 1845), married Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet
• Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven (1782–1850)
• He married secondly Margaret Mary Coghlan in 1816.

He is buried at St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland.

Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (4 September 1782 – 6 August 1850) was an Irish Peer.

He was the eldest son of Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl and Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways, daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Horner. He had one brother, Richard George Quin (1789–1843), who married Amelia Smith on 7 September 1813 and died without issue, and two sisters, Elizabeth who died young in August 1795, and Harriet, who married Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet and died in 1845.

He was styled Viscount Adare from 1822 until he succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his father in 1824. He took the additional surname of Wyndham, becoming Windham Wyndham Quin, on 7 April 1815.

He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of County Limerick for life in 1818. He served as an MP for County Limerick in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1820. He was accused of corruption following the 1818 General Election, but after a full inquiry, the House of Commons exonerated him.

On 27 December 1810, he married Caroline, daughter and heiress of Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan and Clearwell, Gloucestershire, Wales. They had the following children:

• Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1812–1871), 
• Captain, Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham Quin (2 November 1829 – 24 October 1865), who on 24 January 1856 married Caroline, third daughter of Rear Admiral George Tyler, K.H., of Cottrell, Glamorgan, M.P., and had issue. 
• Lady Anna Maria Charlotte Wyndham Quin (21 November 1814 – 7 January 1855), who married William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly on 11 August 1836.

Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl KP PC (19 May 1812 – 6 October 1871) was an Irish peer, Member of Parliament, and archaeologist.

He was styled Viscount Adare from 1824 to 1850. The son of Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, he succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his father in 1850.

Along with George Petrie, Lord Dunraven is credited with "laying the foundations of a sound school of archaeology" in Ireland.

As Viscount Adare, Dunraven sat as the Conservative MP for Glamorganshire from the 1837 General Election to 1851. While in the House of Commons he became a Roman Catholic and his political activity largely aimed at safeguarding religious education in Ireland.

He subsequently became one of the commissioners of education in Ireland. In 1850, he succeeded his father as Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl in the peerage of Ireland and retired from the House of Commons the next year. In 1852, he joined James Henthorn Todd on the Brehon Law Commission which set about translating the Senchus Érenn, a collection of early Irish laws.

On 12 March 1866, he was named a knight of the Order of Saint Patrick, and, on 11 June of the same year, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom, with the title of Baron Kenry, of Kenry, County Limerick, giving him a seat in the House of Lords. He was lord lieutenant of County Limerick from 1864 until his death.

Born on 19 May 1812, in Westminster, Dunraven was the eldest son of Windham Henry Quin (1782–1850), later the second earl, and of Caroline Wyndham, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, Glamorganshire. From her father she inherited the Wyndham estate in Glamorganshire and also property in Gloucestershire.

Dunraven's grandfather, Valentine Richard Quin (1752–1824), a staunch supporter of the union of Britain and Ireland, had been recommended by Lord Cornwallis for a peerage, and was created Baron Adare, of Adare, County Limerick, on 31 July 1800.[2] He was further created Viscount Mount-Earl in 1816 and Earl of Dunraven in 1822.

In 1815, Dunraven's father, Windham Henry Quin, assumed the additional name of Wyndham in right of his wife. He represented County Limerick in the Westminster parliament from 1806 to 1820.

Wyndham-Quin was educated at Eton and at Trinity College Dublin, graduating BA in 1833. In 1824, when his father inherited the earldom, he gained the courtesy title of Viscount Adare.

His father was elected as an Irish representative peer and sat in the House of Lords from 1839 till his death in 1850.

He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1855.

Born on 19 May 1812, in Westminster, Dunraven was the eldest son of Windham Henry Quin (1782–1850), later the second earl, and of Caroline Wyndham, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, Glamorganshire. From her father she inherited the Wyndham estate in Glamorganshire and also property in Gloucestershire.

Dunraven's grandfather, Valentine Richard Quin (1752–1824), a staunch supporter of the union of Britain and Ireland, had been recommended by Lord Cornwallis for a peerage, and was created Baron Adare, of Adare, County Limerick, on 31 July 1800. He was further created Viscount Mount-Earl in 1816 and Earl of Dunraven in 1822.

In 1815, Dunraven's father, Windham Henry Quin, assumed the additional name of Wyndham in right of his wife. He represented County Limerick in the Westminster parliament from 1806 to 1820.

Wyndham-Quin was educated at Eton and at Trinity College Dublin, graduating BA in 1833. In 1824, when his father inherited the earldom, he gained the courtesy title of Viscount Adare.

His father was elected as an Irish representative peer and sat in the House of Lords from 1839 till his death in 1850.

He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1855.

He married on 18 August 1836, Augusta Charlotte Goold (died 1866), the third daughter of Thomas Goold, Esq., of Rossbrien, Dromadda and Athea, a Master in the Court of Chancery (Ireland) and his wife Elizabeth Nixon. They were distant cousins, as Thomas's mother was an aunt of the first Earl. They had at least eight children, two sons being stillborn. His first wife died in 1866.

The surviving issue of this marriage were:

• Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1841–1926)
• Lady Caroline Adelaide Wyndham-Quin (15 May 1838 – 2 July 1853)[13]
• Lady Augusta Emily Wyndham-Quin (10 August 1839 – 11 February 1877), married Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian and had issue
• Lady Mary Frances Wyndham-Quin (25 November 1844 – 21 September 1884), married Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore and had issue
• Lady Edith Wyndham-Quin (7 September 1848 – 1885)
• Lady Emily Anna Wyndham-Quin (21 January 1848 – 1940)
• Secondly, 27 January 1870, to Anne, daughter of Henry Lambert, esq., of Carnagh, Wexford, who, after his death, married Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton.

A portrait of his first wife, who died on 22 November 1866, was painted by Hayter, and engraved by Holl. Their son, the fourth earl, under-secretary for the colonies in 1885–1886 and again in 1886–1887, became an active Irish politician and yachtsman.

There are portraits at Adare Manor of the first Earl of Dunraven by Batoni, and of the third earl and countess by T. Philipps, as well as busts of the first and second earls.

In 1855, Dunraven purchased "Garinish Island" near Sneem (County Kerry, Republic of Ireland) as a holiday retreat from the Bland family of Derryquin Castle. He commissioned the architect James Franklin Fuller (1835–1924) and the building contractor Denis William Murphy (1799–1863, father of William Martin Murphy) with the creation of a house, later called "Garinish Lodge", and a garden on the island. His son, the 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, developed the garden from 1900 onward into a subtropical wild garden, which is still in existence

Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, KP, CMG, PC (Ire) (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, entrepreneur, sportsman and Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Salisbury from 1885 to 1886 and 1886 to 1887. He also successfully presided over the 1902 Land Conference and was the founder of the Irish Reform Association. He recruited two regiments of sharpshooters, leading them in the Boer War and later establishing a unit in Ireland.

A big game hunter, in 1874 Dunraven claimed 15,000 acres in Colorado, United States, determined to make the area a game park. He built a tourist hotel there but sold the land in the early 20th century, as he was under continuous pressure from settlers trying to encroach on his holdings.

Lord Dunraven was the son of The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl by his first wife, Florence Augusta Goold, third daughter of Thomas Goold, Master in Chancery. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. After serving as a lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards, a cavalry regiment, Dunraven became, at age twenty-six, a war correspondent for the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph. He covered the Abyssinian War in Africa. In this capacity, he shared a tent with Henry Stanley of The New York Herald.

Lord Dunraven married Florence Kerr, second daughter of Lord Charles Kerr. The latter was the first son of The 6th Marquess of Lothian, his 2nd wife. The Dunravens had three children:

• Lady Florence Enid Wyndham-Quin (13 June 1870 – July 1891).
• Lady Rachael Charlotte Wyndham-Quin (20 February 1872 – 30 January 1901), married Desmond FitzJohn Lloyd FitzGerald, 27th Knight of Glin and had children.
• Lady Aileen May Wyndham-Quin (9 April 1873 – 25 February 1962), married Lord Ardee, who later became, in 1929, The 13th Earl of Meath, and had children.
• In 1869, Lord Dunraven revealed in his diaries, under the title Experiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Home, that he had slept in the same bed with Daniel Dunglas Home. Many of the diary entries contain erotic homosexual references between Home and the then Lord Adare.

From 1900 onwards Lord Dunraven developed the gardens on "Garinish Island" (near Sneem, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland), which he had inherited from his father, The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, into a subtropical wild garden. It is still in existence today. The house, called "Garinish Lodge", was burned in September 1922 during the Irish Civil War (1922–1923), but later rebuilt.

Lord Dunraven died in June 1926 at his home in Park Lane, London, aged 85. As he died without a male heir, the earldom passed to a cousin, Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl. The barony of Kenry, which had been created for his father, became extinct. He left all his unsettled property (acquired during his lifetime), including Garinish Island, his yacht and racehorses to his only surviving child, Aileen. All the settled property, which included Adare Manor and other properties there, as well as Dunraven Castle estate and several valuable coal mines in South Wales, was left to his successor, his cousin. Dunraven was buried at St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland. In 1895 Dunraven had lived at 27 Norfolk Street.

He held almost 40,000 acres in Scotland, England and Ireland.

He was the son of Captain Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin (1829–1865), a younger son of Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, by his wife Caroline Tyler, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir George Tyler. He succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his cousin Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, who died in 1926 without male issue and thusly the yDNA line was usurped by both the Tyler line and Lord George Quinn who was born Taylor and had his name changed by Royal Licence in 1813.. This is how the eardom was lost in 2011 when Thady Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl died without male issue.  He had his yDNA tested and it was a part of the Quinn GNA Project at Family Tree DNA.  His yDNA haplogroup is I-M438, initially I2a.

He married Lady Eva Constance Aline Bourke, daughter of Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo. They had the following children:

• Richard Southwell Windham Robert Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1887–1965). 
• Captain Hon. Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin (22 May 1890 – 1983), married Marjorie Pretyman in 1919 and had three daughters.
• Marjorie Olein, wife of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury.
• Pamela, wife of John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield, Lady Olein Wyndham-Quin (5 March 1892 – 1969), 
• Miss Kathleen Sybil Wyndham-Quin (1895–1907), 

He died at Adare Manor and is buried at St. Nicholas' Church of Ireland in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland. 

I am related to the 5th through 7th Earls by way of our matrilineal common ancestors. The 1st through the 4th I am related via the male common anscetral liine of John O'Quin, the father of Donogh O'Quin and his wife Gabriella Nash.