{"name":"Arrived Sydney","target":"","target_text":"SS Waimana","date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>13 Jan 1920<\/span>"},"date_start":"1920-01-13","date_end":"1920-01-13"}
Died
Concord, Sydney
24 Nov 1970
{"name":"Died","target":"","target_text":"Concord, Sydney","date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>24 Nov 1970<\/span>"},"date_start":"1970-11-24","date_end":"1970-11-24"}
{"name":"Buried","target":"Botany Cemetery","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>26 Nov 1970<\/span>"},"date_start":"1970-11-26","date_end":"1970-11-26"}
{"name":"Employee","target":"Green, Francis Donald (Frank)","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1920<\/span><span class='separator'> - <\/span><span class='date'>1929<\/span>"},"date_start":"1920","date_end":"1929"}
{"name":"Spouse","target":"Devine, James Edward (Jim)","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>12 Aug 1917<\/span><span class='separator'> - <\/span><span class='date'>Mar 1943<\/span>"},"date_start":"1917-08-12","date_end":"1943-03"}
{"name":"Spouse","target":"Parsons, Eric John","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>19 May 1945<\/span><span class='separator'> - <\/span><span class='date'>22 Nov 1958<\/span>"},"date_start":"1945-05-19","date_end":"1958-11-22"}
Tilly Devine, born Matilda Mary Twiss in London, arrived in Sydney as a war bride in 1920 and became a formidable figure in the city's underworld, particularly in Palmer Street, Darlinghurst. Known for her violence and her legendary feud with Kate Leigh, Devine was the city's leading madam until the end of the 1950s. She died, in financial ruin and unlamented, in 1970 but her legend has recently been revived in popular culture.
