tERRY qUINN RESEARCH 2000-2021

•  This historical novel tells of convicts and transportation, emancipation and discrimination, squattocracy, bushrangers, drovers, and timber fellers. A colonial code of silence covering up Aboriginal Massacres is compared to the British colonising History of Ireland. The role of the police and particularly the Native Police force that carried out many of the Massacres of Aboriginal tribes is explored. Political machinations, both pre and post Federation in 1900 are grist for the mill of this novel.
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  My Great-great Grandfather, Patrick Quinn, was my first ancestor to live in the Colony. He arrived in 1836 from Ireland, married in 1842 in the colony, sired five children, and died in Glen Innes. His death certificate showed that he worked as a Bellman and Sawyer, lived 54 years in the Colony, and died June 5, 1889. The Glen Innes Examiner printed newsworthy details of Quinn Family members. This provided details of the family activities of Patrick and his eldest son, Hugh Quinn.
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• As the first of our Quinn Family born in Australia, this historical novel is told from Hugh’s perspective. Details of his life are recorded in newspaper reports of his contribution to the region. His skill as a home-educated wordsmith was recorded in letters written to the Editor on various topical matters and provide facts that formed the foundation of this historical novel. His mining in Tin mines around Vegetable Creek opened up Evolution. Reincarnation is considered in the context of the enigma of Death. Politicians are exposed and the early years of Federal politics explore the origins of Australia's unique experiment aimed at building a social contract that promotes the prosperity of all those it calls Australian, even those decimated by colonisation.
  
• Australia entered the Great War in a 1914 attack on German colonies in the Pacific. Hugh's youngest son was away serving when Hugh passed away in the Glen Innes Hospital. My family knew little about our early roots in nineteenth-century Colonial Australia. In the ninety years before WWI, the first three generations of my Quinn family lived on the New England Tableland. Detail about my Australian ancestors was limited to a few facts found in the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. The narrative of this historical novel reveals real and fictitious family events, embedded in a sometimes imaginative reconstruction of historical events in Colonial Australia. 

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