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Elizabeth Devenish was born in North Tawton, Devon, circa 1822.¹
She was listed in the 1841 census at 7 Mill St in North Tawton, Devon, with her parents Henry and Mary, and her younger siblings George, Martha and Mary. She was working as a warper.²

Elizabeth's marriage to George Manning was registered between October 1843 and December 1843 in Okehampton, Devon.³

She was listed in the 1851 census at 4 Flora Cottages, St Andrews in Plymouth, Devon, with her husband George; he was a railway porter.⁴

She was listed in the 1861 census at 25 Rendle St, St Andrews in Plymouth, Devon, with her husband George. Their children Henry and George were listed as living with them.⁵

She was listed in the 1871 census at 25 Octagon Cottages in Plymouth, Devon, with her husband George; he was a shoemaker. Their children Henry, Martha, Amelia and George were listed as living with them.⁶

She was listed in the 1881 census at 25 Octagon Cottages in Plymouth, Devon, with her husband George; he was a bootmaker and she a bootbinder. Their children Henry, Martha, Amelia and George were listed as living with them.⁷

She was listed in the 1891 census at 21 Wotton Cottages, Rendle St in Plymouth, Devon, with her husband George; he was a shoemaker. Their children Henry, Martha and Amelia were listed as living with them.¹

Elizabeth died between October 1892 and December 1892 in Plymouth, Devon.⁸

John Melliar Devenish was born in Mangorei, Taranaki, on 6 September 1856. He was the son of William DEVENISH & Mary HIRST.^2,3,4

He was educated in New Plymouth, then from 1884-1887 at the College of St John the Evangelist, Auckland..
He held church positions in Upper Hutt (1887-88), Porirua (1889), in the Pohangina district (1892-99) and Auckland until 1904, where he had been curate at St Barnabas, Mt Eden. He subsequently moved to Australia, where he served in Armidale, Walgett, Boggabri, Sydney and Tamworth in NSW, before moving to Tasmania in 1909, where he served in Strahan, King Island and Buckland, before returning to Auckland in 1922.⁴

He married Fanny Thornhill Pickmere, daughter of Ralph Pickmere and Serena Hannah Matthews, at Bishop's Court Chapel in Auckland on 25 June 1901. There were no children from this marriage.^5,6,7

He was widowed at age 64 on the death of his wife Fanny on 31 October 1920.^8,1

John died on 13 January 1939 in New Plymouth at age 82.^2,1,9 He was buried at the Te Henui Cemetery.^2,1,10

Margaret Elder Devereux was born in New Zealand in 1891.²

She married Robert Ferguson Cuthbertson, son of Harrold George Cuthbertson and Agnes McIlwraith King, in New Zealand in 1924.¹

Ida Helen Dewes was born in New Zealand on 21 April 1887.¹

She married Frederick Arthur Hanan, son of Arthur Sedgley Hanan and Emma Selina Nutter, at St Mary's Cathedral in Auckland on 22 March 1913.^2,3,4

She was widowed at age 71 on the death of her husband Frederick on 4 July 1958.^5,6

Ida died in May 1975 in Auckland at age 88.⁷ She was cremated at the Purewa Cemetery on 8 May 1975.⁸

George's birth was registered between April 1875 and June 1875 in Folkestone, Kent.^1,2
He was listed in the 1881 census at 1 St Eanswythe Terrace in Folkestone, Kent, in the household of his mother Sarah Jane Amor.¹
He was listed in the 1891 census, boarding at Church St in Minster, Kent, with the family of Henry YOUNG, blacksmith, to whom he was apprenticed.³
He was listed in the 1901 census, lodging at 11 Chalkwell Row in Milton, Kent, in the household of a Robert RYAN, working as a shoeing smithy.⁴
He was listed in the 1911 census at 22 Church Yard in Ashford, Kent, in the household of his mother Sarah Jane Amor, and he was a blacksmith.⁵

George's death was registered between April 1916 and June 1916 in West Ashford, Kent.⁶

John's birth was registered between July 1852 and September 1852 in Elham, Kent.^3,2
He was listed as an apprentice to Thomas Hogben in the 1871 Census at 14 Lyminge St in Lyminge, Kent.³

John's marriage to Sarah Jane Amor, daughter of Joseph Amor and Mary Walters, was registered between July 1874 and September 1874 in Elham, Kent.¹

John died before 1881 (as his wife is a widow in the 1881 census).

George Dibbern was born in Kiel on 26 March 1889.¹

For a full story of George's astonishing life, readers are referred to the superb website at http://georgedibbern.com - but special mention must be made of some details, as these became part of our family folk-lore. He had a wife in Germany (Elisabeth Vollbrandt, married 1921) and daughters Frauke Wahine (1922), Elke Maata (1924) and Sunke Tai (1925) but spent much of his life aboard the 32-foot ketch Te Rapunga (named after the third of eighteen steps in the New Zealand Maori creation myth).¹

After winning the Auckland to Melbourne race of 1934 in Te Rapunga, followed by the Melbourne-Hobart race (1935), George Dibbern returned to Auckland and embarked with a crew of Maurice Black, Roy Murdock and George Dibbern and Eileen Edith Morris for an extended voyage to Rarotonga and Tahiti.
In 1941 he and George and Eileen arrived in Napier and George was interred on Somes Island (for the second time) as an enemy alien, not having his yacht returned until 1946.

In 1950 he won £10,000 in a Tattersalls lottery, but gave half to the man who gave him the ticket for covering his work shift. This enabled the purchase of Satellite (Woody) Island, followed by Partridge Island - he and George and Eileen farmed Woody Island for 3 years before they parted ways.¹

He had a defacto relationship with Eileen Edith Morris, daughter of Charles Edwin Morris and Edith Maud Armstrong, which resulted in the birth of their daughter, but they did not marry due to George's existing family in Germany.

George died on 12 June 1962 in Auckland at age 73 of a heart attack.¹

Edwin Dickenson was born in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, in 1898.²

He married Dinah Dodds in Bankstown, New South Wales, in 1950.¹

Edwin died on 15 July 1990 in Eden, New South Wales.^3,4

Ernest Herbert Dicketts was born in England on 8 January 1894.²
He served in the South Staffordshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and the South Lancashire Regiment as Lieutenant during WWI.³

Ernest's marriage to Kathleen Marjorie Haggis, daughter of Charles Burton Haggis and Jessie Gertrude Winzar, was registered between October 1918 and December 1918 in Wandsworth, Surrey.¹

He was listed in the 1921 census as Head of Family at 12 Derbe Rd in St Anne's on the Sea, Lancashire, with his wife Kathleen; he was Publicity Manager for Leyland Motors.⁴

He was listed in the 1939 Register at 'Elvashore', Oatlands Close in Walton, Surrey, with Kathleen Marjorie Haggis; he was a printer's representative.²

Ernest died on 3 November 1953 in Weybridge, Surrey, at age 59.^5,6

His will was probated in London, Middlesex, on 19 February 1954 with his estate valued at £5367/15/10.⁶

Jane Mason Dickie was born in Kelvin, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, in February 1879.^1,3

Jane died on 3 November 1879 in Kelvin, Glasgow, Lanarkshire.^1,2 She was buried in November 1879 at the Glasgow Necropolis, Wishart St in Dennistoun.⁴