The Quimbys have been living in America for nearly four hundred years now, whereas the Jersey-Originated Quartermaines arrived only seventy eight years after their Shetland, Ulster and Northern Ireland-originated rivals.
The first three Quimbies known were Onus, Michaela and Joshua. Because only a few drawings depicting them survive in the Springfield museum, the epic strangeness of their whereabouts indicates that their life stories are tellingly distinct from the distortions depicted in the Simpsons.
Onus possibly was born sometime in 1582, while Michaela was born in 1575. Both belonged to the Feudal elite, what a strange beginning indeed. They didn't even speak modern English, only a mix of Pig Latin, Middle English, Norse and Irish Gaelic. Their lives changed with the birth of their only legitimate son Joshua in 1610, because Onus was a swindler extraordinaire.
As the conflict between sects of Christianity flared up so much, Onus went to the Canary Islands in order to escape both his wife and the flare ups, but the Canarians were not amused. Then, he had to sail to North Carolina, as The LATE Virginia company (did that same old company exist?) got defunct. After arriving in North Carolina, he found love and made sex with a lonely Cherokee woman, who later birthed Christopher Quimby in 1630.
Joshua came later by sailing the Gin Blossom. As the Gin Blossom broke down, he got stranded in Virginia. Eventually, he found love later on, in the form of a witch doctress. But as the witch doctress' fellow people felt suspicious, both she and Joshua got sacrificed for their supposed sins.