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 1876 - 1948 (72 years)
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| Name |
QUIN, Adelaide Agnus [1] |
| Born |
27 Mar 1876 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
08 Aug 1948 |
New Haven, Connecticut, USA  |
| Buried |
11 Aug 1948 |
St. Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut. |
| Person ID |
I179 |
Connecticut Spangs |
| Last Modified |
23 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
QUINN, Patrick W., b. 07 Feb 1843, Belfast, Ireland , d. 10 Jan 1927, Bridgeport, Connecticut (Age 83 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
BARR, Margaret Jane, b. 10 Apr 1844, Ireland , d. 04 Aug 1930, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Age 86 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Married |
09 Jul 1864 |
St. Malachy's, Belfast, Ireland [2] |
| Notes |
- Search for Marriage License-
March 5, 2001 - No record between 1862 through 1866 inclusive; per Northern Ireland Statistics and
Research Agency, Belfast, No. Ireland. {Their reference - T13814)
November 29, 2001 - Copy of Marriage License received. Obtained from St. Malachy's Church, Belfast, No. Ireland (assisted by Jim Hyslop, Belfast)
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| Family ID |
F67 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
COX, Thomas Henry, b. 31 Jan 1876, Scotland , d. 07 Feb 1956 (Age 80 years) |
| Married |
1899 |
| Children |
| | 1. COX, Mildred Virginia, b. 23 Apr 1900, New Haven, Connecticut, USA , d. 23 Jun 1981, Orange, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Age 81 years) |
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| Photos |
 | Cox, Thomas
Thomas Cox and Adelaide Quin Cox |
 | Cox, Thomas and Adelaide
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| Last Modified |
23 Jun 2015 |
| Family ID |
F65 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- Adelaide Agnes Quin. I don't have a lot of memories of Nana Cox because she died when I was 12. She was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from Scotch-Irish parents. Her father, Patrick, was a tool and die maker and they saved their money and bought saltwater flats which they rented out and did very well. Her mother, Margaret, brought two items from Ireland - a christening shawl and a statue of St. Joseph. She gave birth to 12 children but only 5 survived by 1900. Adelaide was the third child, according to the 1880 census. Edward, Robert and William died young.
Emma was the oldest and lived in a nunnery after 2 failed marriages. My sister, Nancy, was taken to visit her once and she grabbed Nancy and said "See everyone; she looks just like me."
Francis was the 2nd born who ended up being an Army Ambulance Driver and my sister said she was buried in her uniform.
Walter Sarsfield became a dentist in New Haven. There was also an Uncle Doc, Vincent Edward, who was a physician in New York City.
My sister shared a number of stories that I did not know about. Nana was known for her hats, so much so that, years later, older women would stop Nancy and comment on Nana's hats. She always dressed well, even at home, and always wore a girdle.
All of the Quin children were educated well and Nana worked as a bookkeeper for D. M. Read Department Store in Bridgeport. She was given an ornate sugar bowl when she left to get married. It is not clear how they met but Charlie Pop would ride his bicycle from New Haven to Bridgeport and read her Shakespeare.
Nana did not have a driver's license for many years as she saw no reason for it. One day, at their summer home in Woodmont that he had built, Charlie Pop gashed his arm splitting wood. Nana wrapped it and drove him from Woodmont to St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven. After that, she decided she should get her license so her daughter, my mother, took her in to be tested on Prince St.which was a dead end street. At the end of the test the examiner asked her to turn the car around. "You turn the car around; I'd never come into a place like this" She got her license. Nancy also remembers her driving Nancy home to Middletown, normally a 45 minute trip. It took 3 hrs! She stopped whenever there was a truck!
I do have a few memories of Nana Cox on McKinley Avenue as I stayed there for a week one summer when I was 6 or 7 while my parents went on vacation to Vinalhaven, Maine. I recall sleeping in the back bedroom in a high poster mahogany bed with a white chenille bedspread. I think we went there for Thanksgiving because I have a vague memory of a ceramic dog or clown cookie jar in the pantry that always had ginger snaps in it and she would allow me to have one if I asked. Nana and I also had a fondness for black olives which were a treat for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
During the week I stayed there, I recall playing on the front porch while she sat and relaxed or read a book. Then when the right time came, she would allow me to walk the two blocks down the street to the bus stop and wait for Charlie Pop. Once in a while, he would take me to the butcher's which was owned by Joe Marlow, his nephew. Nana and Charlie Pop helped out these relatives and Joe made sure they had meat during WW II when it was rationed. Charlie Pop liked to tinker with things behind the house and he would sometimes let me help.
1880 census - Stratford; page 12 [12/43]
Patrick 35
Margaret 33
Emma 10
Francis 9
Adaline 7
Vincent E 4
Sarsfield W. 1
1900 - Bridgeport Sheet 3A [5/43]
Just Patrick and Margaret; shows her as having 12 births and 5 are living.
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| Sources |
- [S252] U.S. Census - 1880, (Name: Ancestry.com;), Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, page 12 (image 12/43).
Warren Co, Iowa
- [S125] Ireland National Library.
Microfilm P 5468 - no other information on film
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