Profession of Mathew Devereux?

[Wexflyer]

On this extract from a marriage registration. It may say "M Doctor" but that seems a strange abbreviation, and may also be wishful thinking 
Thanks

[Neale1961]

Yes, it looks like M Doctor. (MD as in "doctor of medicine")

[wivenhoe]

Mathew Devereux is a rather distinctive name. If he is a Doctor of....anything....you might expect to see his name somewhere else.

What date and place relates to this record which names Mathew Devereux?

[Wexflyer]

Mathew Devereux is a rather distinctive name. If he is a Doctor of....anything....you might expect to see his name somewhere else.

What date and place relates to this record which names Mathew Devereux?

Devereux is not that exotic a name in Wexford. I have Devereux ancestry myself. 

The extract is from the second marriage of his son Thomas, aged 44, in Ballymore, Co. Wexford, in 1874.

I can find no relevant newspaper reference to a Dr Devereux, other than the clerical kind, in the vicinity in the time frame of reference, which is precisely what makes me wonder.

[maddys52]

There are various reports of an incident in July 1824 which mention a Dr DEVEREUX, who sounds like a medical doctor - he had "attended Mr Carroll occasionally for the last three years ... and considered him insane." I gather the incident occurred at Killinick, though that's not necessarily where Dr DEVEREUX was.

The item in the English newspapers says it comes from the Wexford Herald.
eg:    Tuesday,  July 20, 1824
Publication: The Times

Perhaps a little early to be your man. 

[Wexflyer]

There are various reports of an incident in July 1824 which mention a Dr DEVEREUX, who sounds like a medical doctor - he had "attended Mr Carroll occasionally for the last three years ... and considered him insane." I gather the incident occurred at Killinick, though that's not necessarily where Dr DEVEREUX was.

The item in the English newspapers says it comes from the Wexford Herald.
eg:    Tuesday,  July 20, 1824
Publication: The Times

Perhaps a little early to be your man. 

Ah, interesting. The BNA does not have the Wexford Herald, and I was looking from 1830 onwards in any case. No Christian name given for Dr. Devereux, but it is stated in another report (now that I change time period), that he lived in Wexford (the town).

That was quite a famous case.

I will dig out some town directories in the morning

[shanreagh]

Any chance of a bigger piece of the register so we can see other letter M.

The letter M at the beginning of Mathew, to me, does not look the same as the letter M in front of Doctor. Though against this I guess the writer would be more likely to do a flourish around the initial letter of a name as opposed to a shortened form of a qualification. 

[Wexflyer]

Any chance of a bigger piece of the register so we can see other letter M.

The letter M at the beginning of Mathew, to me, does not look the same as the letter M in front of Doctor. Though against this I guess the writer would be more likely to do a flourish around the initial letter of a name as opposed to a shortened form of a qualification.

You can see the entire page here
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1874/11247/8125158.pdf

[Wexflyer]

I consulted with Pigot's directory of 1820, and Slater's of 1846. Both have the Dr. Renwick of the newspaper accounts, neither has a Dr. Mathew Devereux. In fact neither has a physician named Devereux at all, though there is a Nicholas Devereux, a surgeon, in 1820.