January 10, 2006:
  
Hi Al, 

William and Johanna Burns are the first Murphy's I have found so far in my line. 
I have so much more info on the varying lines but FTM just doesn't pick up the 
branches.

St Stephen's Cemetery, Old Chelsea, Quebec

Descendants of William Murphy


0 William Murphy b: 1802 in County Wexford, Ireland d: Nov 08, 1876 in Quebec, Canada

.. +Johanah Burns b: 1805 in County Wexford, Ireland d: Aug 15, 1876 in Quebec, Canada

........ 1 James Murphy b: Apr 30, 1832 in River Chapel Co, Wexford, Ireland 
d: Oct 30, 1911 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

............ + Mary Barrett b: Mar 04, 1841 in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada d: 1927 in 
Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

................... 2 Mary Murphy b: May 02, 1865 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 
d: Jan 10, 1909 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

....................... +Joseph Welsh b: 1859 d: May 08, 1899 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

................... 2 Johanna Murphy b: Jul 13, 1868 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 

................... 2 Julia Murphy b: Oct 1869 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 
d: Mar 17, 1917 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

....................... +Michael Patrick Mulvihill b: 1868 d: 1950 in Old Chelsea, 
Quebec, Canada

................... 2 William Patrick "Willy" Murphy b: Feb 02, 1871 in Old Chelsea, 
Quebec, Canada d: 1951 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

....................... +Bridget Hanna Dean b: 1870 d: 1941 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

................... 2 John Murphy b: Jun 24, 1873 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 
d: Sep 14, 1953 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

....................... +Elizabeth Charlotte Joyce b: Sep 02, 1876 in Joyceville, 
Ontario, Canada d: Apr 05, 1965

................... 2 Gertrude Murphy b: 1876 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada d: 1956 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

....................... +John Thomas Mulvihill b: 1870 d: 1951

................... 2 Patrick Joseph "Paddy" Murphy b: Feb 02, 1876 in Old Chelsea, 
Quebec, Canada d: Nov 04, 1958 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

....................... +Anastasia Burke b: 1878 in Hollow Glen d: Sep 10, 1967 in 
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

................... 2 Sarah A. Murphy b: Nov 21, 1879 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 
d: May 10, 1968 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York, USA

....................... +John Michael Muldoon b: 1879 in Ontario, Canada d: Jan 04, 
1957 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York

................... 2 Bridget Murphy b: Apr 23, 1881 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 

................... 2 Catherine Murphy b: Apr 23, 1881 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 

................... 2 John Murphy b: 1883 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 

................... 2 Emma Margaret Murphy b: Dec 14, 1885 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 

....................... +Michael Moore b: 1885 

........ 1 William Murphy b: 1834 in Wexford, Ireland d: Aug 10, 1891 in Old Chelsea, 
Quebec, Canada

............ +Bridget Corrigan b: Jun 19, 1842 in Ireland d: Oct 12, 1902 in Old Chelsea, 
Quebec, Canada

................... 2 Cecilia Murphy b: 1866 

................... 2 William Austin Murphy b: Jun 15, 1867 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, 
Canada d: Apr 17, 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

....................... +Margaret Furrie b: Jan 01, 1866 in Chelsea, Quebec, Canada 
d: Dec 07, 1940 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

................... 2 Julia Murphy b: 1869 

....................... +Thomas Barrett 

................... 2 James E. Murphy b: 1871 d: May 25, 1931 in Escanaba, Delta, Michigan, USA

....................... +Isabele Margaret Pink b: Aug 18, 1874 in Hull, Quebec, Canada 
d: Jan 13, 1917 in Escanaba, Delta, Michigan

................... 2 Mary Murphy b: 1873 

................... 2 John Murphy b: 1874 d: 1896

................... 2 Austin J. Murphy b: 1876 

....................... +Mary Ryan 

................... 2 Bridget Helena Murphy b: 1880 d: Sep 04, 1900

........ 1 John Murphy b: 1839 d: 1892

............ +Mary b: 1827 

................... 2 Margaret Murphy b: Sep 02, 1863 d: Mar 22, 1886

....................... +Michael Leahy b: Oct 22, 1845 d: Jun 16, 1905

................... 2 Anastasie Murphy b: 1866 

........ 1 Bridget Murphy b: 1847 in Ireland d: Sep 29, 1911 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

............ +Hugh Burke 

........ 1 Margaret Murphy b: 1851 d: Jan 10, 1880 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

............ +Arthur O'Neil 

........ 1 Annie Murphy b: 1852 d: 1912 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

............ +Patrick Beahan d: Apr 02, 1892 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

Thanks so much for this! 
... Anne-Marie
January 13, 2006:
FYI - My grandfather Willie McGrath was cousin to Murphys.  (I believe through his 
mother Mary Barrett). 
 
As a young woman I remember two sisters Cora and Pat Murphy who kept the old Murphy 
home as a summer place on the Scott Road next to the Dunn house.  Cora and Pat lived 
on Bronson Ave in Ottawa just near the Bronson Bridge.  
... Pat McGrath
March 13, 2007:
Hello all,
 
Anne-Marie, you may remember I sent you this marriage record from St. Stephen's Chelsea 
some time back:
 
7-8-1859
John Murphy, s/o William Murphy and Johanna Burn, Ballygarret, Co. Wexford
Married
Margaret Burk, d/o Patrick Burk and Mary Ann Burk, Chelsea
Wit: Martin Behan and Mary Thorburn.
 
Now, the attached map shows Ballygarret down in the bottom right-hand corner. The squares=1 km., so 
Ballygarret is only about 6 kms. from Kennystown (half way up left side, over the dotted line 
which is the border with Wicklow), and Kennystown is the place Michael Hendrick and Margaret Balfe 
married in, had their children in, and came to the Meech Creek area from. (My Murphys, from Wicklow, 
were godparents for some of the Hendrick children.)
 
Della and I are still working on WHY the Hendricks came to the Chelsea area. Do you have any background 
on what brought the Murphys to the area--or when they came?
 
Hope to hear from you
...Anne

(Anne has a larger, full-colour copy of the map below ... Al)

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I have no facts about what prompted my Murphy ancestors to depart Ireland and try 
farming along the Mountain Road, north of Aylmer.  But it seems to me that there is at least a 
working hypothesis that gives us hints about timing.  Irish emigration increased after the 
Wolfe Tone Rebellion (1799-1800), after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) and 
after the succession of potato crop failures through the mid 1840's.  Do any of these periods 
fit in with the age grouping of your earliest Murphys?  
ATB, 
Will Dunlop
March 14, 2007:
Hi all:
 
The 1798 Rebellion affected County Wexford more than any other County in Ireland. It pitted 
neighbours against neighbours and internally divided many families permanently. The memory of 
this Rebellion has a very long shelf life -- it's still talked about in some areas 
in Eastern Ontario.
 
Beginning about 1800, families tried to get out of County Wexford, County Wicklow and County Carlow. 
Just after the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815, a recession in eastern Ireland, plus the ongoing 
turmoil in the area following the 1798 Rebellion, plus the imminent arrival of Catholic emancipation 
(didn't happen until 1829 but was long anticipated),  led to a panic to get out to Canada. 
See the list of Protestant and Catholic families desiring to emigrate at www.bytown.net/wexlist.htm . 
Bruce Elliott has written an excellent article about this. See

Emigration from South Leinster to Eastern Upper Canada, Bruce Elliott, in Kevin Whelan, ed. 
Wexford: History and Society (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1987) pp. 422-446
(Carleton University Library DA990.W5W49 - 5th Floor) ISBN 0 906602 0 68 (HIST 3500).

The article also appears in 

The Untold Story: The Irish in Canada, edited by Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds,
Celtic Arts of Canada, Toronto, 1988, ISBN 0-921745-00-1, 2 volumes, 
(This one should be at local libraries)

Many of these families ended up in the Ottawa area. Many more came via chain migration 
in later decades. Plus there were a couple of large estates in Wexford and Wicklow which 
were cleared of their tenants during the famine years.
 
Folks started coming to northern New York State, along the St. Lawrence, from Wexford 
about 1805. By the 1820's, there was a strong tradition of emigrating to the areas 
along the Rideau Canal from Wexford to Kingston to Smiths Falls. They came from Wexford 
to work on the Lachine, Erie and Rideau Canals as word spread about jobs in this area. 

The farmland around Smiths Falls and in Beckwith Township wore out quickly. It's either 
Pre-Cambrian Shield or limestone covered with only about 4 inches of soil. Many of the 
early arrivals had to leave after the first generation - they went to Renfrew County 
which was surveyed in time for the arrival of the famine Irish and to other parts of 
Ontario.
 
The Byrne family were among the leaders of the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford. That's why you 
see so many men and women named Byrne / O'Byrne / Burns, etc. in the early emigration 
from this area. I have come across many intermarriages between Murphys and Byrnes -- 
maybe just because they are common Irish names, though.
 
... Al

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Hi Will,
 
I worked on the St. Stephen's film at the LDS this morning, hoping to find some more clues, 
but I was stuck with a defective machine and didn't get very far.
 
What I had in mind in asking what brought your Murphys here was did they come to work on the Canal, 
for instance (as Richard Daly did)? There are some Canal workers on the McCabe List from Gorey, 
close to where Wm. Murphy lived in Wexford.
 
When did your Murphys arrive in Canada, do you know? Michael Hendrick and Margaret Balfe and 
family came in 1846-47, as part of an assisted emigration (some would say eviction) program. 
My Murphys came under the same scheme, but went to Smiths Falls to join other Balfes, and later 
moved with a Balfe family to Barrie, Ont.
 
I'm guessing at some sort of link in Wexford between the Hendricks, the Murphys, and the 
Dalys, and would love to discover what it was.
 
Anne
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We have little good family history on my mother's maternal side, the Murphys.  We know 
her grandfather was Martin Murphy and his wife's maiden name was Welsh (probably the same 
Welsh family mentioned in Anson Gard's book Pioneers of the Upper Ottawa, on pages 
35 and 36.  Family lore has it that he was in Canada by the mid 1840's which would 
support speculation that emigration took place to avoid the potato famine but we have 
no facts.  The Murphy farm, long since expropriated for the Gatineau Park, lay between 
the farms of Gladwyn Mulvihill and the Chamberlins.  Further west along the Mountain Road 
lay the Crilley farm.  The Murphys donated land across from the farmhouse for the local 
school.  The immediate area was known as Hollow Glen and Anson Gard's book recites 
it as the 'Holler School' (pg. 36).  The son, Martin Washington Murphy married 
Mary Ann Goody.  In addition to farming he worked as a stone mason on the construction 
of the Parliament Buildings.  He died in 1927.
 
Al's material about emigration related to the canals is thought provoking and gives 
me another angle of research.  Anne mentions the Dalys.  There was a Daly family from 
along the Mountain Road who were frequent visitors at the Murphys and I can remember 
[when still a youngster in the 1950's] a Philip and Ken Daly who'd drop by for a chat 
and a jar.  Our Dunlop family from the original farm up the Meech Creek Valley has
multiple connections with the Dalys.  See Anson Gard again, page 363.  Gabriel Dunlap 
and William Dunlap married Margaret Daley and Bridget Daly (1804-53) respectively.  
William's son George (Apr.1841-Aug.1925) married a Mary Ann Daley (Apr.1846-1882).  
He's the ancestor of all them Dunlops up at Farm Point and Old Chelsea today.  
I wonder if this provides any leads?
... Will Dunlop
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Thanks very much, Al, for the 1798 background.
 
Richard Daly was from Ballyrobuck, Kilrush parish, Co. Wexford. According to the McCabe List, 
Richard Daly asked to have his brother, Owen and family, brought to Canada. From a 
Daly family tree on the web that Ray Daly made great contributions to:
 
"Richard [Daly] had worked on the Rideau Canal and for his work recieved a land 
grant of 100 ac N1/2L19;R11 Hull Township".

Attached is the 1851 census page for Richard Daly, other Dalys and Mulvihills. 
Martin Daly appears a page or so before this.
 
I'll have to find a better map, but I believe Ballygarret is about the same distance 
from Ballyrobuck as Kennystown, where the Hendricks came from.
 
Anne
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Anne and Will:

I checked the 1828 Militia List which includes the names of many of the Canal Workers
in Bytown, Nepean and Hog's Back. Many of the early settlers in the lower Gatineau
Valley show up there, but not Richard Daly. John Mulvihill, age 27, is there however.
... Al
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Thanks very much, Al, for the 1798 background.
 
Richard Daly was from Ballyrobuck, Kilrush parish, Co. Wexford. According to the McCabe List, 
Richard Daly asked to have his brother, Owen and family, brought to Canada. From a Daly 
family tree on the web that Ray Daly made great contributions to:
 
"Richard [Daly] had worked on the Rideau Canal and for his work recieved a land grant 
of 100 ac N1/2L19;R11 Hull Township".

Attached is the 1851 census page for Richard Daly, other Dalys and Mulvihills. Martin Daly 
appears a page or so before this.
 
I'll have to find a better map, but I believe Ballygarret is about the same distance from 
Ballyrobuck as Kennystown, where the Hendricks came from.
 
Anne
March 23, 2007:
Hi Al,
 
I've sent off this report on the children of Wm. Murphy and Johannah Byrne, 
Chelsea, to Will Dunlop and Anne-Marie Ibell.
 
I'm hoping some new details will come of this to produce a more cohesive 
posting for B or B. It would be nice if any of those godparents turned 
up in the Ottawa area!
 
Anne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Anne Burgess 

Subject: report on Murphys


Hi Will and Anne-Marie,
 
Below are some baptismal records I received from John O'Neill, an 
Irish researcher I asked to have a look. I hope this is new material 
for you, although I notice Anne-Marie already had the baptismal date for 
James Murphy.
 
I was hoping to find Handrick / Hendrick godparents, but at 
least he found Handricks living nearby:
 
"BALLYGARRETT ROMAN CATHOLIC REGISTER
Co.WEXFORD
POS. 4255 NLI.

This name "BALLYGARRETT" for this register is
misleading as it covers many parishes.
For example mentioned below is RIVER CHAPEL which was
a village just south west of COURTOWN HARBOUR and that
village is actually in PARISH OF ARDAMINE. And
BALLYGARRETT townland is actually in PARISH OF
DONAGHMORE. Its important to know that RIVER CHAPEL
village was within walking distant of COURTOWN HARBOUR
because of what I relate below about MURPHYS and
HANDRICKS.

This register only starts in 1828 but has births,
marriages and deaths.WILLIAM MURPHY and JUDITH BYRNE
would have married in this parish before 1828 and
probably had two children i.e WILLIAM and JOHN before
1828 as they cannot be found. Also no sign of BRIDGET
in 1847 but I suspect she may have been born outside
the area? WILLIAM MURPHY was not to be found in RIVER
CHAPEL in 1850s GRIFFITHS VALUATION.  JUDITH and
JOHANNA I presume are the same name because there is
no other WILLIAM MURPHY in this register married to a
BYRNE?


WILLIAM MURPHY and JUDITH BYRNE
Known children :
1.
MARY MURPHY bapt.15th ? Jan ? 1830
sp: WILLIAM MURPHY and ANTY BYRNE
Location :  No location
2.
JAMES MURPHY bapt. 30th APRIL 1832
sp: PETER BYRNE and ANNE DOYLE
LOCATION : RIVERCHAPEL
3.
JUDITH MURPHY bapt. 1st JUNE 1840
sp: PATRICK DOYLE and SERA MURPHY
LOCATION : RIVERCHAPEL
4.
ANN MURPHY bapt. 24th MARCH 1843
sp: ANDREW BYRNE and WINIFRED MURPHY
LOCATION : RIVERCHAPEL
5.
MARGARET MURPHY bapt. 28th APRIL 1849
sp: JAMES CONNERS and JANE MURPHY
LOCATION : RIVERCHAPEL

I could not find any ref. to NICHOLAS MURPHY son of
JOHN but he may have been born pre. 1828?

No marriage record for above but the following DEATHS
seem to be MURPHYS related to above :

NICHOLAS MURPHY aged 40 : 11th JULY 1836 : RIVERCHAPEL
ELIZABETH MURPHY aged 62 : 27th MAY 1837 : RIVERCHAPEL
JUDITH and ANN MURPHY : infants : 30th Oct ? 1840 :
RIVERCHAPEL
XXXX MURPHY ( no first name) aged 2 years : 3rd OCT.
1840 : RIVERCHAPEL
GEORGE MURPHY aged 56 : 6th DEC ? 1846 : RIVERCHAPEL
BRIDGET MURPHY aged 72 : 21st APRIL 1850 ; RIVERCHAPEL


Just down the road from RIVERCHAPEL village in
COURTOWN HARBOUR was the following HANDRICKS also gone
by 1850s GRIFFITHS VALUATION :


MICHAEL HANDRICK and ANNE GILES
Known children:
1.
CATHERINE HANDRICK bapt. 17th MAY 1837
sp: MATHEW ROCHE and ANNA HANDRICK
LOCATION : HARBOUR
2.
JOHN HANDRICK bapt. 17th SEPT. 1839
sp: MATHEW and CATHERINE HANDRICK
LOCATION : HARBOUR
3.
JAMES HANDRICK bapt. 20th JUNE 1843
sp: MORGAN CARTY and ELIN MURPHY
LOCATION : COURTOWN HARBOUR
4.
MATHEW HANDRICK bapt. 13th OCT. 1844
sp: THOMAS MURPHY and ANNE REDMOND
LOCATION : COURTOWN HARBOUR


BARTHOLOMEW HANDRICK and ROSE "KERR---N" (illegible :
could be KERRIVAN or KERRIGAN?)
Known child:
1.
WILLIAM HANDRICK bapt. 15th APRIL 1843
sp: PATRICK MURPHY and MARY HANDRICK
LOCATION : COURTOWN HARBOUR


There are also several other HANDRICKS around the area
with names like JOSEPH, JAMES and PATRICK HANDRICK."
 
Will and Anne-Marie: do you have marriages (in Ireland or in Canada) for 
any of Mary, Judith (=Julia and Johannah) and Margaret Murphy?
 
I'll be interested to get your views.
 
Anne


 December 23, 2011:

The William Murphy and Johanna Burns family had connections to the Corrigan families in the Gatineau Valley.