Jeremiah Murphy 1788 : Short Biography

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Jeremiah Murphy 1788

County Cork Clear Island (Cork) County Mayo County Kerry Dingle or Daingean Uí Chúis in the Irish (Kerry)

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Jeremiah William Murphy, a reduced farmer, emigrated to Quebec with the Robinson Expedition from Buttevant, Cork.
I am his great-great-great-great granddaughter.
Denis Driscoll and his family emigrated on the same ship, Brunswick, in 1823. The Murphys married the Foleys in 1891. The Driscolls stayed in Benton Wisconsin, which was a mining town and now is a very small town with a church and a bar. The Murphys moved to Milwaukee in about 1920 to educate their many children. Several of them became professionals and two went to ivy league schools.
My grandfather, Frances Murphy, was a well known physician in Milwaukee when it was a booming town. His brother, Charles, was a Harvard-educated professor of Literature at the University of Maryland.
I am 97 percent Irish still. My relatives come from Dingle, Clear Lake, Buttevant, Killshanding, Mayo, Rathea, and one weird reference to Ballyos in County Clare. Any information about them is helpful.

I know very little about my Foley family other than my grandfather came from Dingle and some others from Waterford. A Foley married a Jennings from Mayo, my grandparents, in 1920. They did very well and the father of the bride was a very well known politician in Wisconsin.

All of these people were famine emigrants and I feel lucky they took the risk to come here.

Any information about these people helpful.

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Date of Birth	1st Jan 1788 (circa)
Date of Death	1st Jan 1847 (circa)

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My Kileys are from Buttevant. They married Murphys and moved to England.around 1900 I believe through Liverepool then on to London. I have A Jeremiah Murphy b 1872 in Gibraltar.(died in Gallipoli in 1915). His father was also Jeremiah Murphy born c 1843. I think they were involved as Lighthouse keepers and Customs officers/Custom Packers in Dublin at one stage the family(Murphy) I believe moved to England around Cromer in Norfolk and Kent in southern England. My irish grandfather was a military Policeman and his father was a coastguard in Southsea in Hampshire England.

Almondo

Tuesday 27th July 2021 03:37PM

Thank you. We are likely distantly related. I am not sure why my Murphys came to the US but I suspect it was because they had their land taken by the English and had no where else to go. Your Murphys look to have had a different strategy and got jobs in London! Best, Ellen