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| The Albury district 1874-1885 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| James Devine farmed at Brocklesby (about 35 kms from Albury) between 1874 and 1881. In 1875 James was on the local committee in Brocklesby petitioning the Government for a school. With the petition is a list of children in the area requiring schooling, including Charlotte Devine aged 11, Mary Ann Devine aged 9, Ann Isabella Devine aged 6 and James D.P. Devine aged 4. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to see the petition | |||||||||||||||||||
| Publican and miner | |||||||||||||||||||
| In 1882 James leased the Racing Club Hotel in Mate Street Albury. Later he would lease the Exchange and the Rose Hotels. During the time he was a publican at Albury, James worked a claim at Black Range. It is not known how much it would have produced, obviously not enough to make him rich, but we do know that in 1885 a transaction took place between Ann and her father John Gillatly involving the repayment of some money owed by her husband James. Ann says she paid her father 50 pounds from the house receipts of the hotel, in notes and gold, perhaps two or three crushings at the engine. |
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| Advertisement from the Border Post (Albury and Wodonga Advertiser) May 20th 1885 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Note: The surname appears as Devene on birth certificates and other documents during the early 1880s. | |||||||||||||||||||