Family history of Devereux and Neville

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If you haven't already- you could try checking the land records called the Tithe Applotment Books (1823-38) http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp  or the later Griffith's Valuation (1848-64) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/     or the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) https://familysearch.org/          for this family.

Do you know what religion they were? Most Catholic records are held locally - One site which might be of use is - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/ - where you can ?browse? an overview of available records per county. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for possible assistance. Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870-are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.  The Anglican Record Project is has created an index to their records: http://ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AngRecord/bunclodyunionindex.pdf

Have you checked the immigration records in Australia? Generally, more information was given at the port of arrival rather than the port of departure. The University of Woolongong has produced, on microfiche, a complete index and transcript of all information concerning immigrants of Irish origin recorded on ships' passenger lists between 1848 and 1867. These are useful for finding out an exact place of origin as well as parents' names. The Public Record Office of Victoria has good online databases of settlers at www.prov.vic.gov.au Otherwise, other records may be found in the Colonial Office Papers of the UK National Archives, class reference CO 201. This class contains a wide variety of records, including petitions for assisted passages, emigrants' lists, records of emigrants on board ship, petitions from settlers for financial assistance and much more.

Failte Romhat has lots of other useful links you could try looking at ). www.failteromhat.com

You might also try:

British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093

The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

The National Archives of Ireland: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

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Hi Michael

I see that you are researching the family of Devereux.  I don't think I can help with any information that you are looking for but offer the following just in case it might fit into your research.

My 2x great grandmother was Johanna Devereux (b abt1850) and married a Michael Lawlor (b abt 1848) in Mitchelstown, Limerick on the 8 Feb 1869 in the Catholic Chapel of Galbally.  I believe her father was Michael Devereux.

Johanna and Michael Lawlor had 4 children Edmond b1869; Mary b1871; William b1873 and Helena b1875.  Mary and Helena emigrated to Australia in 1887 and married in Australia.  Mary (my great grandmother) married Alexander Dalton and Helena married George McDonald.

I don't know if any of this is relevant to your research but please feel free to drop me a line if you think it is.

Regards

John Amatt

Cairns - Australia