>>> What I know: Hugh Devlin and Olivia Stinson/Stenson/Steenson were
>>> registered in the marriages of Londonderry, but in the Arboe Church Records
>>> for Arboe Parish, Armagh Diocese (as Hugoni Devlin and Liviam Stinson) on
>>> 4 Feb. 1835. Witnesses were Jacabo et Hugoni Devlin.
>>>
>>> The record doesn’t spell out the relationships of these two witnesses to
>>> the groom — cousins? father or uncles? The witness Hugh Devlin on this
>>> document may be the same one who showed up in St. Catherine’s, Ontario,
>>> Canada, where my Devlins emigrated to from Co. Tyrone in 1839. He was
>>> listed in St. Catherine’s as being from Arboe, is ten years younger than
>>> “my” Hugh, and married Susan Henry. As you well know, if one hurls a rock
>>> in Tyrone one will hit a Devlin. There are so many of them that it’s
>>> difficult to link them in the proper family groupings. My Devlins married
>>> in Ireland and Canada with Henrys, Quins and McCarrons. Perhaps that would
>>> be helpful.
>>>
>>> The Devlins were all Catholic and the Stinsons all Protestant in the
>>> Parliamentary Religious Returns of 1766 for this parish and perhaps
>>> continued to be so. This fact may have hastened Hugh and Olivia’s desire to
>>> emigrate. “Mixed” marriages weren’t popular, to say the least.
>>>
>>> Hugh and Oliva Stinson-Devlin had at least one child in Tyrone, Peter,
>>> listed in the Arboe Baptismal records on Sept 12, 1838. I don’t believe
>>> this child lived to adulthood. He is not listed among their other children
>>> in Canada. Hugh is listed as being a cooper, in one census record in
>>> Canada. Some in St. Catherine’s are from Kinrush, the records say.
>>>
>>> What I wish to know, of course, is the parentage of these two ancestors,
>>> Hugh Devlin and Olivia Stinson, and to pin them down to a spot, if I can.
>>>
>>> Blessings,
Katie Green
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