Searching for information on ancestors and members of the Murphy family of Newark, NJ. Philip MURPHY born approx. 1832, place unknown, to Thomas and Bridget MURPHY. Married Ann MASTERSON and had six children: Thomas Francis, born October 27, 1860, in Newark, NJ; Margaret , born approx. 1862; Kate, born approx. 1864; Anna, born approx. 1867; Julia, born January 18, 1868; John Bernard, born October 6, 1869. Married Bridget MASTERSON on August 29, 1875, in Newark, NJ, had one son Philip Edward, born September 23, 1876. Philip died February 3, 1891 in Newark, NJ. Thomas Francis Murphy married Sarah Ann GASKIN on May 29, 1884. They had ten children in Newark: Thomas, Jr.,born March 30, 1885; Anna Frances, born September 25, 1886; Catherine, born February 3, 1889; Vincent Joseph, born August 1, 1891, (Mayor of Newark in the 1940's or 1950's); Clair Catherine, born April 12, 1893; Leo, born March 2, 1895; William, born February 16, 1897; Eloy John, born October 18, 1899;Edmund Thomas, born March 15, 1901; Robert James, born September 29, 1902.