Last updated May 8, 2007
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RUDDY - MURPHY - GARRAHY
From Ireland they came, the Ruddy's and Murphy's arriving to Fairview Township, Allamakee County, Iowa as the Garrahy's were arriving to Wellington Township near the town of Fairfax in Renville County, Minnesota
Beginning in 1870's the second and third generations of
the Ruddy and Murphy families began leaving their farms in Iowa.
Ruddy and Murphy families moved to Fairfax and some to Chicago and Salt Lake City.
Garrahy's moved from Fairfax to ChicagoSome Murphy's moved from Fairfax to Ottertail County, Minnesota, Box Elder, Montana, and Saskatchewan, Canada
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These three families all came from Ireland during the Famine years. The Ruddy's: James, Michael, Thomas and (probably) Nicholas came from, maybe, Oughaval in Co. Mayo during the 1840's. Michael and his family went to Liverpool and then on to New York City then Syracuse finally they migrated to Iowa. James Ruddy showed up in Iowa then took his family to Wellington Township, near the town of Fairfax in Renville County, Minnesota. The Murphy's from Co Limerick about 1850 had also migrated to Iowa. James Ruddy and his family moved by covered wagon in 1871-1872 to Wellington township in Renville County, Minnesota near the town of Fairfax. The Garrahy's were some of the first arrivals in Wellington Township migrating there in 1868 from Co Clare, Ireland by way of England and Massachusetts. These families intermarried in Iowa and Minnesota.
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