Individual Details

Emigration

Aboard "Sir George Seymour", leaving Gravesend, England. Voyage took
130 days, arriving in Auckland on 27 November 1847.

Marriage

At Roman Catholic Church, Howick

Baptism

At Howick Catholic Church. She had formerly been baptised into the
Church of England, but later renounced this baptism when she married a
Roman Catholic.

BAPTISM AND RECANTATION
On the 22nd April 1849 before me, Philip I VIARD, stood Ann COALMOSS,
aged 16 years, who having acknowledged that the Catholic Apostolic and
Roman Church is the only true Church of God, the only heir of the
promise and authority of that Divine Saviour of her own free will and
without any Compulsion from me on the only purpose of saving her own
soul has begged with earnestness to be received among the Children of
the members of the Church and may be abjured the heresy of the Church
of England of which I have absolved her after having given her the
baptism under condition in the temporary Chapel at Howick according to
the Lower and Ceremonies required by the ritual in the presence of
Patrick WEIR, Laurence QUINN, and Patrick EVERS.
Godfather - Charles HARE and Godmother - Mrs WILLSON (presumed to be
Elizabeth WILSON, wife of Seargeant Thomas WILSON)
Signed by Ph. I VIARD, Bishop of Auckland

Marriage

At bride's residence, Little Plain - a Roman Catholic ceremony
Witnesses: Robert WINTLE and Eleanor QUINN

Family history records that William CAIN went through any money Ann
may have had so it was not a happy marriage.

Reminiscences

BOMBALA TIMES - NEWS AND NOTES - 16th July 1920
Not often a camera-man gets the opportunity to take a picture of five
generations of one family, and that happened when Mrs Lawrence QUINN,
until recently of Bombala, walked in to have her phote taken. She is
87 and the group included here eldest daughter and three other
generations down to one of her 21 great great grandchildren. The old
lady's descendants ar 16 children all alive, 104 grandchildren, 134
great grandchildren, and the 21 mentioned. This loyal old family of
the station employees were for many years at Burnima and Maffra
Stations. There is a standing growing memorial at Schumaker's Creek to
the memory of old Mrs QUINN, that of an immense willow tree on the
main roadside to Bibbenluke, which was planted at a well-site by her
over 50 years ago, where she used to draw her household water supply
and also do her clothes washing under the little shade then given from
the tree.

Death

At 19 Olive Street, Paddington. (the home of her daughter Julia
(Jude).

Obituary

PIONEER'S DEATH - 341 DESCENDANTS ALIVE
Mrs Anne CAIN, whose death at Paddington at the age of 93 years is
announced, had never been in hospital and suffered only one slight
illness in her life. She had sixteen children - six sons and ten
daughters.

Mrs CAIN was a native of England and arrived in Sydney in the early
(eighteen) fifties from New Zealand after her marriage to the late
John Lawrence QUINN. She accompanied him to the diggings at Turon,
NSW, and Ovens, Victoria.

Mrs CAIN, who died on the anniversary of her first marriage, is
survived by 3 daughters, 3 sons, 104 grandchildren, 156 great
grandchildren and 75 great great grandchildren - a total of 341
descendants. Her eldest daughter is 75 years of age and her eldest
great great grandchild is 18 years of age - the youngest being 4
months.

Mrs CAIN had twin sons who married twin sisters and one of these had
twin daughters.

For many years Mrs CAIN was a resident of the Bombala district where
she and her husband kept the Bridge Hotel. One of her daughters, Mrs
Fortune of Olive Street, Paddington, at whose house Mrs CAIN died,
remembered the days when her parents had exciting adventures with
bushrangers. She can recall two of these desperadoes, Gardiner and
Gilbert whose gang terrorised the Carcoar District.

Died 24th July 1926 at 19 Olive Street, Paddington, Sydney, Ann CAIN,
aged 93 years.