MURPHY'S EMERALD IDYLL
FAMILY
Family Tree Notes
Ahnentafel Numbers
This is a
numbering system used in genealogy to help identify each member in a family
tree. The formula states that an individual's father is twice that
individual's number, and that an individual's mother is twice that
individual's number plus one. The men have even numbers and the women have
the odd ones. If the person begins the tree referencing himself, as I did,
then the male line goes back--1, 2, 4, 8, etc.
This is especially useful when you have name repetition in a tree as we
do. I my family tree I use the number as part of the individual's name to
assist in the description of details in these notes. Notice I am the fourth John Murphy in a row. In addition to
that, my grandmother, 5 Julia, had a father named John Murphy. Her mother
was a Kelly (11 Julia Kelly), but became Julia Murphy also upon her
marriage. The Murphys and the Kellys are the Smiths and the Joneses of
Ireland.
At this point, I will insert a kind of trade mark email
signature that I use in genealogy correspondence. It lists the surname
links in my tree and some surname marriage links. This is the
genealogist's way of constantly putting out "feelers" for
more connections.
Regards, Jack Murphy jjmurphy@earthlink.net <mailto:jjmurphy@earthlink.net>
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Researching (Paternal): Murphy, Kelly, Hennessey, Connell,
Tanner in County Cork.
With marriage links: Murphy/Wiseman; Kelly/Mahoney, Murphy/Anglin
also (Maternal): McGlinchey, Whalen, and McDonald with location in Ireland unknown
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These notes were pieced together from many emails. Please pardon any repetition.
Murphy/Kelly Notes
The only place in Ireland I have located specifically is Crookstown, west of
Cork City where the line back from 5. Julia A. Murphy in my tree runs.
In the states the only location I know of relatives is in the area of Boston,
Cambridge, and Somerville, Mass.
As you can see from the tree, my grandmother, 5. Julia's, mother
was 11. Julia
Kelly, and her father, 22.Cornelius Kelly. 5 Julia was born in 1866, as the second
of six. She came to the United States at seventeen with her sister, Ellen, who was 20 at the time.
They came on the Catalonia into Boston on
April 30, 1883. I transcribed the list and sent it to ISTG (Immigrants Ships Transcribers' Guild) for
posting. Eight hundred of the 1,270
people on board were Irish.
Her parents and the other four children came in on the same ship
two years later in 1885. I have photocopies of the pages of
the manifest and I hope to transcribe that
list, too, when the pressures of retirement slow down. The names and ages
were: John, 45, Julia, 40, Minnie, 16, Michael, 11,
Johanna, 8, and John,6.
Family tradition said that in addition to Julia being a Murphy who married a Murphy, she also had a cousin who did the
same thing. I found the death record of a Margaret T. Murphy who died on June 1, 1914. At the time she was widowed, so her husband, John J. Murphy died before 1914. Her age was listed as 53-0-0, which would give her an estimated birth year of 1861. She died of Lobar pneumonia
and mitral insufficiency. She died at 107 Reed St., Cambridge. This was the same address that that was used by her cousin, 5. Julia and her husband, 4. John, when he died 8 years earlier.
Margaret's parents were Humphrey Murphy and Margaret Anglin,
both of Ireland. If Margaret were truly Julia's cousin then Humphrey may have been a brother to 10. John Murphy, Julia's father.
She was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in West Roxbury (Boston).
4. John J. Murphy died on March 21, 1906.
"Natural causes--probably apoplexy." Married .Age 47. Address 107 Reed St., Cambridge, Mass. Occupation, butcher. Born in Ireland. Parents:
8 John J. and 9 Ellen Hennessey. Buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury, (Boston), Mass.
Jeremiah F. Murphy son of 4
John died on July 20, 1906. He was single, 18 years old and 2 months and 12 days. Death was by accidental drowning in the Charles River. He lived at 23 Magee Street in Cambridge. (His father died March 21 of the same year at 107 Reed Street.) He was born in Cambridge.
He was buried in St. Paul Cemetery in Arlington, Mass.
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Hennessey
My Hennessey link is: 9 Ellen Hennessey who married 8.John J. Murphy,
perhaps around 1860-ish. Their son, 4. John Joseph Murphy, would have been born
around 1864 as per his death record. His origin was listed only as: "County Cork,
Ire."
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Farrell
The only Farrell connection I have is the name, Johanna Farrell, on a
cemetery plot in Cambridge, Mass. My grandmother, 5. Julia, was one of six
children who had all emigrated by 1886. One sister was a Johanna who died in the
1930's. I think she may have married and become the Johanna Farrell in question,
since the plot was handed down in the family. One of my sisters lost an infant born with spina bifida back in the 1960's.
My late mother gave her a cemetery plot to use which had been used for the
burial of a Johanna Farrell. My mother was not certain who she was.
I learned in the mid-1980's when I began genealogy, that my grandmother, 5
Julia, was the second of seven children born to 10 John and 11 Julia. Six were
born in Ireland and the last, Timothy, was born in the US. I found (and later transcribed for
the internet) the passenger list detailing the arrival in, 1883, of 5 Julia at
17, and her elder sister, Ellen who was then 20. Ellen's daughter, Helen Sweeney
D'Agostino, who was
elderly in 1985, was very helpful in getting me started. At that time she was
living in Randolph, Mass. Her late husband, Tony, had been a
barber.
Two years after 5 Julia and Ellen's
arrival, on May 3, 1885, their parents and the youngest children came
into Boston. The other children were--Mary ("Minnie"), Mike, John, and
Johanna who was listed as 8 at the time. Timothy (known as "Sid") was
born in the US. He was active in Cambridge affairs for a time.
It was this Johanna that I am guessing may be linked to the gravesite.
Ellen's daughter told me that Johanna had died in 1933, the year I was born. She
didn't mention whether or not she had been married. She would have been about
59.
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Connell
I only have the name Ellen Connell from the burial record of 10 John Murphy
for a direct link. There was also the name Geoffrey Connell (along with a
Johanna Riordan) as sponsors on the baptism certificate of my Grandmother, 5
Julia, who was born in 1883 in Cannavee, Crookstown, Cork.
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Whelan
My mother (3 Anna) was Anna Louise
McGlinchey (1900-1978). Her father, 6 Andrew,
b. US, (
1868-1903), in Cambridge, Mass. Her mother, 7 Mary Ellen Whelan, b. US
(1875-1925), in Charlestown, Mass. She had brothers Johnny and Willie. Her
parents were: father, 14 Patrick Whelan, born in Ireland; mother, 15 Mary (nee
unknown) born in Ireland.
I have two other Whelan notes. The first is a note I took from
a fragment of the 1880 census
in Middlesex County. There was a household of a Catherine Breen, 50, widowed,
born Ire. in 1830 , and her daughter, Margaret, 24. born U.S. Also living there
was a Margaret Whelan, 45, born Ire. in 1835. The two older women were sisters. I
don't know the name Breen but it sounded vaguely
familiar, so I saved the note, just in case. I keep hoping I'll somehow tie
Breen into the mix and pick up a Margaret and Catherine Whelan, too.
Secondly, I remembered that I copied down some information while I was
researching ship arrivals. While I had the filmstrip for Boston arrivals during
1846-1891 covering the right section of the alphabet, I copied down all
McGlincheys coming in (my mother's name). There were only fifty or so, so I made
up a list of them to share with people. I started doing the same thing with the
Whalens before I discovered there were a lot more of them. Well, I had too much
into it by then, so I kept going. I now have a list of 450 Whalens entering
Boston in those years. It is still hand written for now, so I can't send it out,
but I can do lookups. The entries for each person contain the name of the ship
and the date of its arrival.
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Riordan
My Riordan link is found on the baptism certificate of my grandmother, 5.
Julia, dated Jan. 28, 1866. Sponsors were: Geoffrey Connell and Johanna Riordan.
In the states the only location I know of is in the area of Boston, Cambridge,
and Somerville, Mass.
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McGlinchey
My mother, Anna McGlinchey Murphy was born in
Somerville, Mass., near Boston, in 1900. Her father, Andrew, was also born is
this area in about 1868. I was successful in finding his father,
James
McGlinchey, arriving in Boston on April 8th, in 1862 on the Steamer, Forest
City, from Canada. He was 18 years old and a member of a family group of five.
Unfortunately, since Canadian archives didn't begin collecting its ship
manifests until 1965, I can't learn from whence he came originally.
The other four McGlincheys in James' party were: Ellen, 20; Eliza, 25; Mary,
30; and Micheal, 35, who was listed as having been born in St. John, N.B.
The NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) index cards
originally listed a sixth McGlinchey. It was A--------, age 45, no gender occupation
or precise day of the month listed. The date was only given as April---, 1862, and the passenger
list position as 35. Since the other five were positioned 1 through 5,
it seems
clear that A------- must have come on another trip on the same coastal steamer
during the same month.
According to the 1900 census, on the first of June, 1900, the following notes were recorded.
Census, Mass. Middlesex, Roll 665, Book 2, P.160a, at 48 Concord Ave, Somerville, in Ward 3, Family group number 105. Andrew, head, born May, 1868, age 32, married 5 years, born Mass. both parents born in Ire.
Occupation, Motorman, RR.
1900 census cont. Mary E. wife, born March, 1875, age 25, married 5 years, born Mass. both parents born Ire.
Gave birth to 2 children, both living. Mary, daughter, born March 1896, age 4. born Mass.,
Known as "Aunt Mae." Joseph, son, born, 1897, age 2, born Mass.
End Census notes.
Two other children born later were 3
Anna Louise, born June 12, 1900, (too late by days for the census) and Helen, who was about six months old when their father died in 1903.
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The Wiseman Connection
Back in 1985, after following up on a lead gained in an Irish trip in
1985, I
got a long rambling letter from an eighty-two-year old nun in Conn. She was
somehow remotely connected to me since she described an old relative named Julia
often visiting their home in Cambridge when she was a child. It would seem to be
my gm, 5 Julia A. Murphy.
This nun was one of four Murphy children, herself, Mary,
Eleanor, Joseph and
Daniel, a retired Mass. State Police Captain who died in 1975. He was the third
Daniel in a row.
Their father, Daniel, was born in 1866, the same year as my grandmother. He
married an Anne Purcell. He was one of 7 children of the grandfather Daniel
Murphy and Ellen Wiseman. When the GF Daniel died, Daniel and Robert as the
eldest came to America first (date uncertain) to get settled. Later, at some
point, the GM Ellen and the other children came.
GF Daniel died from complications after a fall from a horse at the Warrenscourt
Estate in Crookstown. The dear nun said that Lady Warren thought so much of him
she had him cared for by the "best doctors," but he died in Cork City
Hospital. However, despite the fact they thought so much of him, they all had to
leave the estate--hence the move to America.
I found my family "homestead" in an area called "Clearagh"
("Cleer-uck") at the top of a hill. The man who owned it said
"all the Murphys" were born in that house and worked on the
Warrenscourt Estate doing laundry. The building was called "the
barracks" locally, and was made of rubble stone, dirt floor, and had
several smaller outbuildings half under ground for doing the laundry from the
estate.
I believe GF Daniel and my grandmother 5 Julia's father, 10 John Murphy, may
have been brothers.
Interestingly, I found one other posted passenger list for the same ship, the
Catalonia, which came over June 26, 1886, posted by someone else. I studied it
to learn from it and discovered passenger #489 was Thomas Wiseman, age 28,
Farmer. The date and his age would put his birth about 1858. With a Queenstown
(now Cobv, pron. "cove" near Cork City ) embarkation, there is a good
chance of a relationship. The name Wiseman is a VERY uncommon Irish name.
On the next line was listed a passenger named Kelly, also a farmer.
In the event you want to look up Thomas Wiseman's arrival the ISTG
site is-- <http://istg.rootsweb.com/>
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild site, Passenger lists for over 3,000 ships.
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Mahoney
In poring through records in the city hall of Cambridge, Mass., one time, I
stumbled across a Mary Mahoney, who died at 85. She was living at an address
which leaped out at me -- 23 Magee St. This was where my grandmother had lived.
Mary's parents were the same as that of my grandmother (5 Julia's ) mother, 11
Julia Kelly. Her name was Mary Kelly of Clearagh, Crookstown, before marrying
her late husband, James Mahoney. She died 29 September, 1923 and would have been
born abt. 1838. She is buried at a family plot in St. Paul's Cemetery in
Arlington, Mass.
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Tanner
After posting my limited knowledge of 23 Jane Tanner, my father's maternal grandmother, I received some delightful news from a distant relative. A woman named Carol Tanner Jones from Canada submitted information about Jane that ties us to her family. The following notes were extracted from her email.
Your great-great grandmother, Jane (Tanner) Kelly, and my great grandfather, William Tanner were sister & brother, so your father and I are 3rd cousins, and you and I are 3rd cousins once removed.
My g grandfather came to Canada in 1842 with his 2 brothers and their widowed mother, Molly (Haggerty) Tanner, my g g grandmother, and your g g g grandmother. She was
blind . She always said that she had 3 sons & no daughters, which we know now isn't true. She also had 3 daughters,
all of whom married Catholics, although the rest of the family were all staunch Protestants. Such was the
religious intolerance of 19th century Ireland. The Tanners were Anglo-Irish, having settled in Ireland during the plantation of English settlers.
Jane was the daughter of William
Tanner & Molly Haggerty. She was bapt 8 Mar 1812, in Murragh Parish Co
Cork. Her siblings were:
Anne,1801/Mary,1803/Edward,1807/William,1817& James,1823. Edward,
Wm. & Jas. emigrated to Hastings Co Ontario ca 1842. William is my g
grandfather. She married Cornelius Kelly.
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Upper Tree Notes
In genealogy, one often
learns about the parents of an individual through the birth or death
records. On my father's side (2 John) His father, 4
John's, death record gave
me the names of 8 John and 9 Ellen Hennessey. I have no information about them
emigrating or being buried in this country. On his mother's (5 Julia)
side, her parents (10 John and 11 Julia Kelly, emigrated and were buried in the
US, in the family plot in Cambridge. Their records supply the names of 20 Michael, 21
Ellen Connell , and 22
Cornelius and 23 Jane Tanner, all of who are probably buried in Ireland.
On my mother's (3 Anna Louise) side, her parents, 6
Andrew and 7 Mary Ellen both were born and buried in the US.
supplying the names: 12 James, 13 Ann, 14 Patrick and 25 Mary (no
last name recorded).
In the case of 24 A------ I am taking a
liberty. I found the ship arrival index cards for 6 McGlincheys entering
the Boston in April,1862. However, the federal records did not have
the actual ship manifests of their arrivals. The state of Mass. had
5 of the 6 on one ship, but A----- McGlinchey, age 45, may have been on the same
ship, Forest City, on a later trip. James, my mother's grandfather, was 18
when he arrived. He named his son Andrew six years later in 1868. I
am guessing that A----- is James' father. Time will tell, I hope.