The Quine's came to Cape Town from the Isle of Mann. They stayed in Loader Street and Jarvis street in the 1860"s. They where ship chandlers and hotel operators and owned motor launches. One brother Robert Jeremiah Thomas Quine owned a ship chandling company and was married to a woman from Australia, Ada, who he married in Perth
John James Quine, the father had at least 4 sons and died in Cape Town. His wife Jane Carren died in Liverpool in 1866. It is assumed that he came to Cape Town with some of his sons therafter