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