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Title: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: maggie2005 on Tuesday 05 April 16 15:18 BST (UK)
I have a marriage for Clotworthy Dobbin Devitt and Jane Buck at St Mary's Dublin 1816.  Jane died in 1832 of Cholera 16/10/1832, leaving 10 children.  At one time Jane was post mistress at Dunshauglin and Clotworthy was Assistant Postmaster General in Dublin, I believe he was with the post office for 17 years.  One known address in Dublin was 4 Hamilton Row.  I have managed to find 4 children by name and one by a newspaper birth announcement but only that the child was a daughter b.1827
Anna Maria b. 1823
John Furlong b.1824 ( my 2 x great grandfather)
Daughter b.1827
Alicia b.1831
Walter Worthy b.1832
According to the newspaper obituary for Jane, Walter would have been the child of 6 months at the time of her death.
The four children I have found were all living in the Midlands and can be traced from around 1841-1844

I am interested in tracing the other children, of course it is possible that some may have died after Jane's death in the Cholera epidemic in Dublin.

We have been searching since 2005 and we have come up with information from England but seem to have hit a dead end in Ireland

If Jane was 21 at her marriage, she would have been born around 1795 and from the English Census records, Clotworthy would have been born around 1790 in Antrim.  I also know that Clotworthy's fathers name was James and he was stated as a Farmer.

Hopefully there may be a ancestry searcher who has some information for me

 :)
Regards
Maggie
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: myluck! on Tuesday 05 April 16 15:55 BST (UK)
Link to marriage as stated - Oct 6th 1816 (http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-277-1-4-301)

There is a death notice in the Dublin Observer 20 October 1832 that states she left " a desconolate husband and ten children"
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: Maggie2016 on Tuesday 05 April 16 16:00 BST (UK)
Thank you, yes I already had that information  :)
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: myluck! on Tuesday 05 April 16 17:03 BST (UK)
Logically the children were born between 1816 and 1832
If referred to as being "left" still living in 1832

Have you located a grave for Jane?
Have you located any baptismal records?

Clotworthy seems to have been in Birmingham in 1839
When you said "The four children I have found were all living in the Midlands and can be traced from around 1841-1844" did you mean the Irish Midlands or English Midlands?

The 1827 daughter was born at Jane Ville, Co. Meath
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: aghadowey on Tuesday 05 April 16 17:33 BST (UK)
Previous threads about Clotworthy Dobbin Devitt here (not sure if there are any others)-
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=39388.0
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=147110.0
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: isobelw on Tuesday 05 April 16 18:03 BST (UK)
You may have this already-
Both the Belfast Commercial Chronicle and Perrys Bankrupt Gazette of October 1828 report the insolvency of Clotworthy Dobbin (Dobbyn) Devitt, Gt George's Street, Dublin, spirit dealer trading under the name Thomas Devitt.
Isobel
Ps I have an interest in the Clotworthy family in Ireland
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: maggie2005 on Tuesday 05 April 16 19:09 BST (UK)
Hi myluck

Thank you so much for your information

In answer to you questions, I have not found a grave for Jane or birth record, I am presuming that she may have been buried at St Mary's Dublin, as that is where Clotworthy and Jane were married.
The children I found were in the Midlands England, which would answer the reason for Clotworthy being in Birmingham.  I have not got that information, the first information I have is a 1841 census showing Alicia and Walter Worthy in  Birmingham and a marriage record for John Furlong who married in Burton-upon-Trent and lived in Wolverhampton.  Have you any information of Clotworthy  in Birmingham, what records are there?

Regards
Margaret
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: maggie2005 on Tuesday 05 April 16 19:37 BST (UK)
Hi Isobelw

Thank you for your interest and comments.  I had the insolvency notice for Thomas Devitt & Co. Not sure if Clotworthy Dobbin Devitt is connected to the Clotworthy family, this could of course be the maiden name of his mother/grandmother, his fathers name was James Devitt and he was a farmer.  Clotworthy was born in Antrim, but I have no idea where.

Regards
Maggie
Title: Re: DEVITT & BUCK c.1816 - 1832
Post by: myluck! on Wednesday 06 April 16 10:58 BST (UK)
LINK to Mirror of Parliament, Volume 6 where he is mentioned (https://books.google.ie/books?id=JMc_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA5081&lpg=PA5081&dq=clotworthy+dobbin+devitt+birmingham+1839&source=bl&ots=WfpIclPl8J&sig=8A_BRNkQXPs7zub0SqGRuRCqLvc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz-63v3_nLAhUEJQ8KHSb6CtAQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=clotworthy%20dobbin%20devitt%20birmingham%201839&f=false)
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