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John, you may be in a better position than we on the other side of the pond to answer this question: is there a clear group of Protestant Devlins separate from the Catholic Devlins--that is, were some branches of the family early among the converts to either the Church of Ireland or Presbyterianism based on marriage? I ask because my Devlins seem to have been Protestant at least by the time they left around 1828: three sons of the immigrant family were involved in Wesleyan Methodist churches and once they arrived in Canada, so I assume their parents were before they left. I am descended from a John Devlin (c. 1775-1847) and Ann Beatty (roughly same period), and one source gives one of their son's birthplaces as Moy, near the border with Armagh, but I don't know where to focus my research to find more about them, and I'd like to believe a Protestant/Catholic Devlin-sorting mechanism might help me focus my search. I also wonder if you know what existing denominations the Wesleyan Methodists drew their greatest numbers from (Church of Ireland?) as John would have been born early in their history as a separate group.
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