To Pat. I am sorry but which was my kind offer ? As I deal with over 100 e-mails a day and offer to do a lot of researching for others I can not remember all of them. Please send me a direct mail with your request paying particular attention to the subject line - eg Irish Civl Registration BIRTH year quarter name given name. If you wish to add any further inforamtion please put that inforamtion in the body of the mail. Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford - please ??????? -----Original Message----- From: irl-dublin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-dublin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of 1sandor1 Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 7:55 PM To: irl-dublin@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] BDM - Murphy 1. Thank you Valerie for your kind offer. I will be looking forward to seeing if anything turns up. 2. I'm sorry, Shirley, but I don't think so. My Murphy family was in Dublin before 1906. The Mary Murphy I'm looking for was born about 1845, the daughter of Bartholemew Murphy, who was a grocer in Dublin, and that's all I know about him. Mary came to the US at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War; when her ship arrived at its intended port in North Carolina (where she was to live with relatives) they found it barricaded by the Union Navy. She went to Newport, RI instead. She did have a brother who remained in Ireland, and he had a son named John Fitzgerald Murphy (usually later known simply as Fitzgerald Murphy), who was born in 1869. He's the John I'm looking for. He came to the United States, probably in the early 1880's, and died in Phoenix, AZ in 1906. In that short life he managed to become a very popular and prolific playwright. -Pat. Wary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message