QUIRK, QUIRKE, O'CURIC

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Thomas QUIRK b.in Cashel, Co. Tipperary Ireland circa 1801 was married to Ann HACKETT b.in Ire. circa 1801. They and their children resettled in Wisconsin in Waukesha Co the Town of Lisbon in the 1840's. They owned a farm south of what is now Good Hope Road and west of Townline Road. They belonged to St. James RCC then in Lannon now in Menominee Falls. Thomas and Ann are buried in the church cemetery with their son Patrick and one of their daughters. Both of these children never married.

Michael the oldest child b 1832 Ireland married Lenore MONAGHAN. They lived in Waukesha and by about 1870 had resettled in Bay View in Milwaukee Co where Michael had a butcher shop. (In the 1880 census they are mistakenly listed as QUICK. Bay View was annexed into the City of Milwaukee by 1880.) The butcher shop was in business until the 1940's. They had about 10 children. Only five lived to age 21, and only three married.
Thomas Francis (Frank) who ran the butcher shop did not marry.
Michael William (WILL) later Wm. M. owned the Quirk Bottle
Works, a company which made milk crates. After WWII the company
made homes. Will and his wife Mary Ellen (Mayme) O'CONNELL had
10 children.
Catherine (Kitty) married Thomas WATSON son of a
Presbyterian minister who was assigned to a Waukesha church. They had two daughters.
Lenore married but did not have children, and
Mary Seraphica (Molly) did not marry.

James another son of Thomas and Ann, married Mary Ellen KEATING. They had a farm some miles north of the Thomas Quirk farm. They had a large family, and Mary Ellen died just after the birth of twin girls. The oldest child Helen (Nell) married Thomas CLANCY who became the Fire Chief in Milwaukee. James and Mary Ellen are also buried at St. James' cemetery

Thomas Ann and Thomas' youngest son married Mary (SIS) SNYDER of Oconomowoc. They lived in Milwaukee and had a dry goods store. They did not have any children.

Mary a daughter of Ann and Thomas married a NICHOLSON.

None of the family who bore the name QUIRK lived in Waukesha by the year 1900. Almost all if not all lived in the City of Milwaukee by then.