Divane/Devine/Davin
My ancestor is Judith or Johanna Divane (called Devine in Australia) who married Patrick Dolan (called Dooling/Dowling in Australia) in 1827 in Boherlahan. He was from Cahir and baptised in Ballylooby. Johanna's parents were James Devine and Mary Dwyer (her death certificate 1887). They came to Australia in 1854.
A Peg Divane was a witness at their marriage and there are a number of other people with the same name in the marriage records from Boherlahan. As we have no birth or baptism records it is difficult to work out who might be her family. She was consumed by the families she and her children married into and I am just curious about who her family was and where they all went to because I don't think any of them came out here with her - the Dowlings all came and her daughter Mary Dowling married a Thomas Hackett also from Tipperary - Curragtarsna.
My sister and I had a little tour of the countryside last week that the families selected just north of Bendigo from 1860. We were absolutely astounded at the work that would have gone in to making the land ready for cropping and we decided it was lucky no one asked us to do it or it would still be forested. It does make for awe when we see what hardships our ancestors encountered.
Margaret Fullarton