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Matilda Mary Devine (née Twiss, 8 September 1900 – 24 November 1970), known as Tilly Devine, was an English Australian organised crime boss. She was involved in a wide range of activities, including sly-grog, razor gangs, and prostitution, and became a famous folk figure in Sydney during the interwar years.
Matilda Mary (Tilly) Devine (1900–1970) from Daily Mirror. Tilly Devine, 1925. NSW Justice & Police Museum, 35694. Tilly Devine, the Queen of Woolloomooloo, is dead. She died in Concord Repatriation Hospital last night. Times changed Tilly as they changed the 'Loo.
Aug 29, 2022 · Tilly Devine died shortly after, on Nov. 24, 1970, after a battle with chronic bronchitis and cancer. Once one of the most notorious women in all of Australia, Devine’s death was barely recognized by the public.
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Devine, Matilda Mary (Tilly) (1900–1970), from Daily Mirror (Sydney), 24 November 1970: Tilly Devine, the Queen of Woolloomooloo, is dead. She died in Concord Repatriation Hospital last night. Times changed Tilly as they changed the 'Loo. In her heyday she admitted wearing more diamonds than the Queen of England ("And better ones, too"). But ...
Death. [media] Once one of Sydney's most ruthless and wealthiest madams, Tilly Devine died in rather pathetic circumstances of poverty and pain. She had suffered from chronic bronchitis for twenty years before she succumbed to cancer in Concord Hospital on 24 November 1970.
Matilda Mary (Tilly) Devine (1900-1970), madam, was born on 8 September 1900 at Camberwell, London, daughter of Edward Twiss, bricklayer, and his wife Alice, née Tubb (s). On 12 August 1917 at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Camberwell, she married James Edward Joseph Devine, an Australian digger and ex-shearer.
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Sep 13, 2011 · Tilly Devine died in a Sydney hospital on 24 November 1970. She was survived by a son whom she had adopted during her second marriage. Her two children to Jim Devine had predeceased her.
