My name is Daryl Francis MURPHY and I am the Site manager of this Web site. My genealogy research is focused on the following families: KELLY, POWELL, GLADMAN, MURPHY, SMITHIf you wish to contribute genealogy information or send your feedback, please contact me here. Thank you for visiting!
About our family
Our MURPHY ancestors came to Australia from the townland of Bog West near Mayglass in County Wexford, Ireland. Dennis MURPHY, son of Philip MURPHY and Mary LAMPORT/LAMBERT, emigrated from Ireland with his spouse, Jane Elizabeth MURPHY (nee WHEELOCK), and children on the clipper ship 'Shalimar' arriving in Victoria, Australia, on 9 February 1855. Dennis was about 43 years of age when he arrived. Dennis MURPHY had been a farmer in Ireland and he became a cab proprietor in Melbourne, Victoria.
Dennis and Jane MURPHY are buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria. Their children were William James (13 years), Mary (10 years), Philip Charles (7 years), James (4 years) and Jane Elizabeth (infant). Only William James MURPHY and his brother James MURPHY had children in Australia. Philip Charles MURPHY died unmarried and childless in Greymouth, New Zealand.
I am a great grandson of William James MURPHY (c1841-1909), grandson of George Davidson MURPHY (1880-1933) and son of George 'Lionel' MURPHY (1914-1976).
The last MURPHY to have lived at house 2 in Bog West, County Wexford, was Mary MURPHY who, at the time of the 1911 Census of Ireland (according to the National Archives of Ireland), was aged 69 years. In 1911, Mary - who never married - lived with her brother-in-law, James KING, a widower aged 55 years, and his son, James KING aged 20 years. James KING had married Bridget MURPHY (daughter of John MURPHY, farmer) on 1 Feb 1883. Bridget KING (nee MURPHY) died some time between 1890 and 1901.
The Welcome photograph above (which was taken 12 May 2008) depicts the ruins which are all that remain of the site where - in the townland of Bog West, County Wexford - our MURPHY ancestors had resided. The small farmstead was probably a mud-walled home with a thatched roof and no modern amenities (no bathroom, running water or electricity).
Important surnames in Daryl's family tree (in alphabetical order) are ADAMS, DONOHUE, DOYLE, GLADMAN, HARRISON, KING, LAMPORT or LAMBERT, MARONEY, MURPHY, POWELL and WHEELOCK.
I have submitted my DNA to GeneTree for testing and analysis to help in my MURPHY family research.
Missing pieces
There are 2 'missing pieces' in our MURPHY Family's history. There is a 'missing piece' in our POWELL Family's history. There are also 2 'missing pieces' in our KELLY Family's history.
The first MURPHY mystery is to pose a question about a possible link between our MURPHY Family from Mayglass in County Wexford, Ireland, and those MURPHYs who emigrated from County Wexford to Argentina. I am trying to establish whether I (an Irish Australian) have relatives in Argentina?
Phillip MURPHY who lived at Bog West near Mayglass in County Wexford, Ireland, was my great-great-great grandfather. > I have a `Birth and Baptismal Certificate` for Dennis MURPHY showing his father, Phillip MURPHY, and his mother Mary MURPHY (nee LAMPORT). The certificate is an extract from the Register of Baptisms of the combined parish Church of Mayglass and Ballymore, County Wexford. The certificate was provided to me on 29 Sep 1987 by Rev Nicholas Doyle PP from Ballymore. It reads: > `Diocese of Ferns Parish of Ballymore/Mayglass > On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify that according to it Dennis MURPHY, Bog, Mayglass, was born on … day of …, and was baptised according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 3rd day of December 1812 in the Church of St Mary`s Ballymore by the Rev., …. > Parents Phillip MURPHY > Mary LAMPORT > Sponsors Patrick BROWN Catherin FURLONG` > The only sibling of Dennis MURPHY that I know of is his brother, James MURPHY, born 23 Mar 1823. > Dennis MURPHY and his wife (Jane Elizabeth WHEELOCK) and their children emigrated to Australia from, Ireland. The `Shalimar` left the Port of Liverpool on 22 November 1854 and arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, on 9 February 1855. They have many descendants in Australia, mainly in Victoria.
I have searched the (very helpful) website of the Irish Argentine Historical Society (www.irlandeses.org) and I have found that some MURPHYs, LAMPORTs/LAMBERTs/LAMPARTs, BROWNs and FURLONGs emigrated to Argentina, that the list of Irish Passengers to Argentina (1822-1889) includes many MURPHYs, that the Irish-Argentina Death Records include many MURPHYs and that the list of Irish Settlers in Argentina lists many MURPHYs including some 24 MURPHYs from County Wexford in Ireland. I note, in reading about the famous John James MURPHY, that he was from Haysland, Kilrane. Kilrane is only about 2-3 miles from Mayglass in County Wexford. I note that Lamport & Holt was the most active steam shipping company at the peak of Irish emigration to Argentina in the 1860s and 1870s and mention again that Mary LAMPORT married my ggg grandfather. I note that at least 2 Irish settlors in Argentina are listed as emigrating from Mayglass, Co Wexford. >
All in all I think there is a strong possibility that I (a Mayglass MURPHY) am related to some of the Wexford MURPHYs who emigrated to Argentina. >
Is anyone researching the Wexford origins of the MURPHYs who emigrated to Argentina? Are there any shipping lists (in Ireland possibly) which show where in Ireland each passenger migrated from? > I would appreciate any help I can receive.
As to the second MURPHY missing piece, in a nutshell the mystery here is whether my MURPHY ancestors from County Wexford, Ireland, are related to Carmel (Johnson) Reynen's MURPHY ancestors from County Wexford, Ireland, and, if they are related, how are they related.
My MURPHY ancestors came to Australia from the townland of Bog West near Mayglass in County Wexford, Ireland. Denis MURPHY, son of Philip MURPHY and Mary LAMPORT/LAMBERT, emigrated from Ireland with his spouse, Jane Elizabeth MURPHY (nee WHEELOCK), and children on the clipper ship 'Shalimar' arriving in Victoria, Australia, on 9 February 1855. Denis was about 43 years of age when he arrived. Denis MURPHY had been a farmer in Ireland and he became a cab proprietor in Melbourne, Victoria.
Denis and Jane MURPHY are buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria. Their children were William James (13 years), Mary (10 years), Philip Charles (7 years), James (4 years) and Jane Elizabeth (infant). Only William James MURPHY and his brother James MURPHY had children in Australia. Philip Charles MURPHY died unmarried and childless in Greymouth, New Zealand.
I am a great grandson of William James MURPHY (c1841-1909), grandson of George Davidson MURPHY (1880-1933) and son of George 'Lionel' MURPHY (1914-1976).
The last MURPHY to have lived at house 2 in Bog West, County Wexford, was Mary MURPHY who, at the time of the 1911 Census of Ireland (according to the National Archives of Ireland), was aged 69 years. In 1911, Mary - who never married - lived with her brother-in-law, James KING, a widower aged 55 years, and his son, James KING aged 20 years. James KING had married Bridget MURPHY (daughter of John MURPHY, farmer) on 1 Feb 1883. Bridget KING (nee MURPHY) died some time between 1890 and 1901.
My DNA has been tested and analysed by FamilyTreeDNA to help in my MURPHY family research. It is Kit No 267584.
There are entries in the Tithe Applotment Books in Ireland for Philip MURPHY holding land in the townlands of Colespit, West Bog and Randalstown on 28 February 1828 and in the townlands of Colespit and West Bog for tithes paid on 25 February 1837. His son (or is it his brother???), Denis MURPHY is entered in the same Tithe Applotment Books for lands held in Colespit and West Bog in 1828 and again in 1837.
Carmel (Johnson) Reynen's great great grandfather, Thomas Murphy, came out from County Wexford Ireland and settled at Arthurs Creek, Victoria, where he married and had a family.
His parents were Denis Murphy and Bridget (nee Cleary).
Thomas called his property here in Australia 'Streamville' and, on a map of the townland Randalstown in County Wexford - where Philip MURPHY occupied a tenement - a section of townland is depicted as 'Streamville'.
There is another coincidence. Thomas MURPHY was married at Woodstock, Victoria, which is near his Streamville property at Arthurs Creek, Victoria. Their marriage certificate states that the usual and present place of residence of both parties to the marriage was Woodstock, Victoria. Thomas MURPHY's 4 children were born at Woodstock. The daughter of Denis and Jane MURPHY (nee WHEELOCK), Mary MURPHY, married on 8 June 1865 and settled with her husband at Woodstock, Victoria!
It is possible that Denis MURPHY (c1796-1871), the father of Thomas MURPHY (Carmel's gg grandfather), was the brother of Philip MURPHY (c1783-1867), my great great great grandfather.
If that could be proven, this would solve this mystery!
Now, to the POWELL 'mystery'. What is the relationship between Cornelius POWELL (born c 1790 - ?) from the townland of Affick in the parish of Tulla in County Clare, Ireland, and Connor POWELL (c 1800-1870) from the nearby townland of Tyredagh in the parish of Tulla?
Some descendants advocate that Cornelius POWELL and Connor POWELL were one and the same person. I respectfully think this is incorrect for several reasons. First, the death certificate for Connor POWELL does not include Thomas, Michael, Ann, Cornelius and John among his children. Second, Connor POWELL (born c 1800) would have only been about 12 years old when Thomas POWELL was born (c 1813). So, it is not likely that Connor POWELL was the father of Thomas POWELL. [According to the passenger list for the 'William Metcalfe', which arrived on 15 Nov 1839, Thomas POWELL was 27 years old - which suggests that he was born in 1812 - and Susanna POWELL (nee McNAMARA) was 20 years old]. Third, Cornelius POWELL and Mary MORO(O)NEY had children in 1826 (Daniel) and 1828 (James) well after Connor POWELL married Ellen CAHIR. Connor POWELL and Ellen CAHIR had Michael Cahir POWELL about 1824 and Patrick about 1828. Fourth, the townland shown in the Tulla baptismal register 1819 to 1846 for the residence of Cornelius POWELL and Mary MORO(O)NEY is Affog but the townland shown for the residence of Connor POWELL and Ellen CAHIR is Tyredagh. Finally, the death certificates of Thomas, Michael, Cornelius and John POWELL - many years after their emigration - all record their father as Cornelius POWELL - not Connor POWELL! A clear distinction seems to have been drawn between the two POWELLs.
Other possibilities are that Connor POWELL was either a brother of Cornelius POWELL (which I think is more likely the relationship) who never left Ireland or Connor POWELL was a brother of Thomas, Michael, Ann, Cornelius and John POWELL. Some of the children of Cornelius POWELL (Ann, Cornelius and John) may have simply accompanied their uncle (or their brother) - Connor POWELL - and his family on the 'Neptune'. Connor POWELL's likely birth date (c 1800) arguably sits more comfortably - though not irrefutably - with his being an uncle of Thomas, Michael, Ann, Cornelius and John POWELL because their birth dates range from c 1813 to c 1823. The oddity about this view, if it is correct, is that the parents of Cornelius POWELL would have had 2 sons with 'interchangeable' names, Connor and Cornelius - 'Cornelius' being an anglicised version of 'Connor'.
The baptism records in the Tulla parish for Margaret POWEL, daughter of Connor POWELL and Ellen POWELL (nee CAHIR), in 1840 give her sponsors as Tom POWEL and Margaret CAHIR - surely relatives, maybe brother and sister, of Connor and Ellen respectively.
I propose to adopt the stance in this family history that Connor POWELL (born c1800) was the brother of Cornelius POWELL (born c1790), and the uncle of Thomas, Michael, Ann, Cornelius and John POWELL, until some other more persuasive evidence emerges.
Mr Morrow, an expert from the Geelong Historical Records Centre who some time ago produced the Geelong Advertiser Index, was inclined to take the contrary view that Connor POWELL and Thomas POWELL were brothers.
Turning to the KELLY mysteries, the first is whether our KELLY ancestors conclusively begin with Colonel John Patrick O'KELLY (1690-1746) of Aughrim, County Galway. His family later moved to County Clare. We believe there is a reasonable basis to claim (based partly on historical evidence, partly on KELLY family stories, partly on other people's research and partly on educated guesswork) that his son, Thomas O'KELLY (c1744-c1780), was the father of our Jeremiah KELLY (born c 1768) and who married Sarah mn unknown) who, in turn, was the father of Thomas KELLY (c 1796-29 Dec 1864). We'd like to established categorically that Jeremiah KELLY (born c1768) was a son of Thomas O'KELLY (c1744-c1780).
So, from Thomas O'KELLY (who migrated to County Clare and dropped the 'O' from the name), we think Maureen's KELLY line goes to Jeremiah KELLY (born c 1768), to Thomas KELLY (c 1796-29 Dec 1864), to Daniel KELLY (c 1846-1920), to James Andrew KELLY(1878-1935) and to Maureen's father, James Andrew KELLY(1908-2000).
Thomas KELLY, son of Jeremiah and Sarah KELLY, and his spouse Ellen KELLY (nee CURTAIN) migrated to Victoria, Australia, about 1853 with their children. Thomas was about 57 years of age at the time.
The second KELLY 'mystery' is when the first of our KELLY ancestors emigrated to Australia. The shipping records for their arrival have never been located. It is possible that Thomas KELLY was a convict but there is no evidence that I'm aware of to substantiate this possibility. Another possibility is that they first arrived in Adelaide and walked to the Victorian goldfields in Ballarat. Again, however, I have not been able to gather any evidence to substantiate this possibility.
