Biography

"my father Nicholas was the son of William, who was the younger son of Sir Stephen Devereux of Ballimagir..."
[The manor of Ballmagyr is between Kilmore Quay and Duncormick in South Wexford, and is the principal seat of the Wexford Devereuxs]
"my father's first employment was Page to Lord Nerbury [Norbury], traveling the circuit with him. He frequently described to me Curran, O'Connell, Shield, Moore the poet, ac."
"My father Nicholas ... settled in South Carolina in 1849
"When I was nine years old [1849] I heard my father and mother discussing the difficulty of meeting their large family expenses, as the proceeds of the sale of the home in Ireland was rapidly melting away...my parents then kept a boarding house..."
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED TO JOHN H. DEVEREUX FOR "MEN OF MARK IN SOUTH CAROLINA"