Was Mary Anne Quin, who married Thomas Williams of the Bank of Ireland, the granddaughter of Rev.Charles Wye, the cleric who married the couple in St. Thomas's on 26th March 1777? Rev. Charles Wye was not associated with this church in any way, and appears to have been specially requested by the couple to perform the ceremony. It is worth noting that they christened their son as Charles Wye Williams in honour, perhaps, of this man in 1779.
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.ie/2011/07/thomas-williams-first-secretary-to-bank.html
Rev. Charles Wye had his origins in Dunleer, Co. Louth, his father, Mossom Wye, having been the rector of Kilsaran Parish, Louth. In 1715, Jane/Jenny Bellingham, the daughter of Colonel Thomas Bellingham of Castlebellingham, Louth, married Francis Quin, a wealthy bricklayer/mason who was of the Dublin family of an early Lord Mayor, Mark Quin from whom Mary Anne was supposedly descended. Francis Quin and Jane Bellingham had a son, Thomas Quin, who settled at Castlebellingham.
In December 1849, this Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham sold 34 acres of land near Castlebellingham in Kilsaran Parish for £350 to Alan Bellingham of Drogheda town. (Deed 138-285-93198). Alan Bellingham was the son of Henry Bellingham, and the grandson of Colonel Thomas Bellingham. Thomas Quin and Alan Bellingham were, therefore, first cousins.
I can find no further information on Thomas Quin of Castlebellingham, Louth, other than the fact that he proved the will of one of his Bellingham aunts there, but it is known that Mary Wye, the daughter of Rev. Charles Wye, married a man by the name of Quin. I wonder, therefore, were the parents of Mary Anne Quin, who married Thomas Williams in Dublin in 1777, Thomas Quin and Mary Wye, and did the bride and groom ask Mary Anne's elderly grandfather, Charles Wye, to perform the ceremony on the day? The following two deeds, sourced recently in the Registry of Deeds on Henrietta Street, are what piqued my interest....
Deed 46-249-28525: In April 1725, Francis Quin, bricklayer, transferred a large plot of land near Sherriff Street, Dublin, to Thomas Quin, Apothecary. The land in question was described as lying 'between Mabbotts' Mills and the Shades of Clontarf on the North side of the River Anna Liffey', and was further described as being edged by Mayor Street. (This plot had been granted earlier to Francis Quin by the Lord Mayor, Sherriffs and Citizens of Dublin.) There were several Thomas Quin, Apothecaries, all of them members of the same family which descended from the Mayor, Mark Quin, and related, therefore, to Mary Anne Quin, but it's impossible to know which one is referred to in this 1725 deed. It's definitely NOT the son of Francis Quin, bricklayer; it may possibly be Francis Quin's nephew, the son of his (possible) brother, Thomas Quin, bricklayer, of Castleknock, who was married to Ellen/Ellinor, and whose will had been proved in 1685 - Thomas and Ellinor had 5 children, Thomas, Margaret, Rose (who married a Smyth), Mary and Elizabeth.
Whoever Thomas Quin, Apothecary was, it seems that this exact plot of land was later in the possession of Thomas Williams' and Mary Anne's eldest son, Richard Williams of 38 Dame St and Drumcondra Castle in 1837 - I sourced a 2nd deed (1837-18-24), dated 11th October 1837, which detailed the selling of this plot to the directors of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company, James Ferrier, John McDonnell and William Willans. The owner was Richard Williams of Dame Street, and the plot was described as being between Mabbotts' Mills and the Shades of Clontarf on the North side of the River Anna Liffey, and as being next to Mayor Street. It seems to me that this plot had been passed onto Mary Anne Williams, née Quin, at some stage, and then onto her son, Richard of 38 Dame Street.
The Quins are endlessly confusing. I sourced other deeds which may be helpful....
Deed 21-204-11252. Dated 30th and 31st of May, 1718. The parties involved were Thomas Quin, Alderman; Francis Quin, bricklayer; Thomas Brownrigg, Dublin gentleman; Mary Whitshed, Dublin widow, sister and sole heir to John Quin of Dublin; Thomas Quin, Junior, Apothecary.
Mary Whitshed was the daughter of Mark Quin, Lord Mayor, while John Quin was his son. Thomas Quin, Alderman, may be Thomas Quin, Alderman and apothecary of Skinner Row who married Elizabeth Browning/Brownrigg in May 1715 - they had a Francis in 1725, John in 1720 and Henry (later Dr. Henry Quin) in 1718. Thomas Quin, Junior, apothecary, was obviously the son of an earlier Thomas Quin.
The deed concerned the sale of a property named the Bull Inn, and 10 small brickhouses in Bull Alley and Patrick St, which had once been owned by John Quin, and which was being sold by Thomas Quin, Alderman, Francis Quin and Thomas Brownrigg, to Mary Whitshed, with the permission of Thomas Quin, Junior, Apothecary, for £436. Among the witnesses to the agreement was Richard Whitshed, who, I believe, was the son of Mary Whitshed, née Quin.
Deed 32-159-19284: Dated 17th October 1721. Concerned a newly-built house in Church Street, close to St. Michan's Church which Francis Quin had close involvement with. The house was being transferred to a John Williams, no relation of Thomas Williams of the Bank etc., on the occasion of the marriage of Francis Quin's niece, Margaret Doyle, the daughter of Hugh Doyle of Killcandra, Co. Meath, to Richard Codd, the son of George Codd of Killiskillen, Co. Meath, Gentleman. Obviously Francis Quin's sister had married Hugh Doyle of Meath.
I need better Quin information....