Murphy

Dear Annie:

Many thanks for your post to the Ireland Reaching Out message board and welcome to the site!

Many thanks also for the great photo by the family headstone.  What a beautiful monument!

John Murphy was a sibling to Edward Murphy and his details are as follows:

Name:
John Murphy

Date of Birth:

Date of Baptism:11-Oct-1834

Address:Not Recorded

Parish/District:DRUMRANEY

Gender:Male

CountyCo. Westmeath

Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:James Murphy

Mother:Anne Cormick

Occupation:Not Recorded

Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1:James Cormick

Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:Bridget Moran

Notes:

DAY OF BAPTISM NOT RECORDED

This record is a transcription from the Roots Ireland database.  The database is subscription only, but you can take a short subscription if you feel that it is worth looking through the West Meath records.

The parish register which is available for free online through the National Library of Ireland website  is located at the link below:

http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000635156#page/1/mode/1up

I will forward this post to one of our volunteers in West Meath to see if they can add any further information for you.

The very best of luck with your research. 

If you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,

Jane.

Hello Jane,

Thank you so much for your reply.  It is wonderful to connect with you!  I will be in Ireland in early July and hope to visit the area of my ancestors.  I am trying to find out more information about James (Jas) Murphy, baptized June 20, 1765, died 1833 in Ireland.  He married Anne Cormick (McCormick?).  I believe he may be buried in Moate.  Anne traveled to America in 1848 with her sons Edward and James and daughter Catherine.

I am wondering if he has brothers or sisters and if his parents were Robert Murphy and Catharine Daley (Daly) from Mullingar.  His children were James (died 1818), Catherine, Edward (my 3X great grandfather), Michael, John, & James. 

Sincerely,

Annie Murphy

Hi, this is strange to find this info but was Murphy was my third great grandfather and I have a lot of information on my family tree on ancestry. Please contact me, my email is cedeshoy427@gmail.com or I have Facebook Mercedes hoy

Annie,

Were you able to find out any more information about your family tree? Edward was also my great-great-great grandfather, and I have a little bit of information, but it doesn't appear to be anything new. 

To my knowledge, James, the father of Edward, was born around 1794, as was Anna (Mc)Cormick. 

I'm assuming that the James Murphys that you are referring to are the ones that are buried in Drumranney? I do not believe that specific father and son pair of James Murphys are the same father and son Jameses that you or I are related to, at least not as far as Edward is concerned. They have have been related in another way, but they are not the father and brother of Edward. 

Edward's brother James was born in 1822 in Drumraney and died in 1893 and is buried at St. Nick's in Freedom. The James Murphy buried in the cemetery in Drumraney died at age 27 in 1818. See what I mean? So the Jas Murphy that was the father of that James Murphy is not the same James Murphy that was the father of Edward. 

Unfortunatley, I don't have any information on James Murphy or Anna McCormick. If you were able to put together any more pieces of the puzzle, I would love to hear any information that you have found. I will also be heading to Westmeath in about a month and have been trying for over a year to find information further back, but it has been to no avail. 

Thanks,

Tim Murphy - Wisconsin - Son of Patrick, grandson of Ralph, great-grandson of Patrick J., great-great-grandson of Michael, all of Freedom, WI, and great-great-great-grandson of Edward.