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My own Devines are from Ireland in Leitrim and are first recorded in Ayr but this is my aunts tree I'm doing but yeah it's definetly an Irish thing. The furtherest I can get back is to a Dicen born in Ireland 1792 and coming over in the mid 1820s with his wife and in Stranraer they loved on Little Ireland which was a name of the street all occupied by Irish families and then next to it was Little Dublin. So was full of Irish settlers. I've come across Diven being soelt Devine a couple times and wonder if it really was Devine or if it's because of their accents that it sounded like Diven or vice versa haha but Diven seems to be the majority on records. They were all labourers of plasterers. It was a small village back then with a port. I think it was the nearest place for immigrant to land in Scotland. They are all from just where the border of north and south Ireland is now.
Gary
Hamilton, Lanarkshire - Devine, McGarry, Daisley, McGuire, Mullen, Sheridan, Ford
Blantyre, Lanarkshire - Gibson, Hamill, McInulty
Avondale, Strathaven - Mulligan, Dempsey
Glasgow - Sinclair, Allison, McFarlane
Renfrewshire - Allison
Perthshire - Sinclair, Roy, Donaldson
Edinburgh and Caithness Thurso - Sutherland
Edinburgh and Ayrshire - Sheridan
