Quinton family
The Quinton surname is a familiar name around Suffolk. It is important to Stowupland and especially to Saxham Street. Notes about Quintons will be added here in the hope they will eventually help with the story of Saxham Street Quintons and carpenters.
1789 Mary Quinton, amongst others, was convicted of ‘reeling false or short yarn’.
In 1792, Samuel the infant son of James and Deborah Quinton was buried in Earl Stonham.
From the 1794 will of Isaac Bayly:
£10.00 to Deborah {Godbold} wife of James Quinton, James is described as an Earl Stonham farmer, but the will further adds:
Elizabeth Emeny of Stowupland spinster to occupy cottage in Stowupland now in occupation of James Quinton and the fruit of the fruit trees in the orchard. (Elizabeth Ememy seems to have been a servant enployed by Isaac Bayly)
1802 baptism, 27th February son John of James Quinton and Mary, formerly Godbold.
From the 1813 Baptism record for the parish of Stonham – 11th April, John son of John and Sarah Robinson, Sarah was formerly Sarah Quinton. Sarah a singlewoman had married John Robinson on 10th Feb 1812.
A John Robinson would move into the Quinton property in Saxham Street from the late 1840s. Both John Robinson and John Quinton were carpenters.
John Quinton is the first known owner and occupier of Saxham Cottage, Saxham Street. He is named in the 1841 census aged 50. However other than that he was a carpenter and owned several properties in Saxham Street we know little more about him.
In his 1820’s diaries Charles Freeman of Stowupland Hall makes several mentions of a John Quinton e.g.-‘carpenter Quinton and I looked over the yard to plan our new building’, ‘pd Quinton for 8 pints of raspberries 2s’ and ‘pd John Quinton carpenter £89 – 12 -6 ½’,
From Ipswich Journal, 23th Jan 1836, John Wilson a Creeting farmer assigns his estate and effects to John Quinton of Stowupland, carpenter, in trust for the benefit of his creditors.
Ipswich Journal, 30th November 1844, John Quinton, Stowupland is listed as someone giving their support to the new railway.
A will for John Quinton, Stowupland, was proved in 1853
