Intro to My Quillin Notebook 2011

 
My source is a book listed in the Library of Congress titled: The Quillin (MacQuillin) Family; The MacQuillins in Ireland by Claude MacQuillin.  A subtitle: The Quillins in America compiled by Milligan Wood Quillin and Mary Kinser Brown.  Published by The Quillin Clan, Gate City, Virginia.
 
I must thank these genealogists for their hours of research and hard work because as a very young genealogist myself in 1990, they paved the way for me.  After running into dead ends with my Quillin maiden name, I found this “MacQuillin” book listed in the Library of Congress index.  My father, Truman Bryan Quillin, Sr., placed me in contact with a cousin, J.B. Quillin, who had this book in his possession, and he very graciously shared his copy with me.  This book linked me directly through my father and my brother for which I was elated.  Shortly thereafter, I was able to secure my own reprinted copy.  It is truly one of my treasures.
 
It appears that much of the MacQuillin history up to 1616 was gleaned from “The Annals of the Irish Kingdom by the Four Masters”.  We are truly blessed that these four Franciscan Brothers spent their long lives collecting manuscripts and documents of Irish history, including four intensive years (1632-1636) copying it into legible form.  Another source cited was the Ulster Journal of Archaeology.
 
As with any research of this nature, I am sure there are errors, but at least this history was recorded and gives us all a clue into our storied past.  I have since had the privilege to travel to Northern Ireland myself and view first hand the area called Ulster in ancient times and Antrim in present day.  I also visited the archives in Dublin and secured a few documents that were written in Latin, but they are in my possession, none-the-less.  I purchased several books that discussed the MacQuillin Clan.
 
Thank you, again, to all of those in the Quillin Clan who worked tirelessly to share this rich history of my family.  With that said, I hope you enjoy these few short pages of Quillin history.