This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jerrett, Murphy Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1134 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 892. LANCASTER THOMAS JERRETT, Sec. 8; P. O. Lancaster; owns 160 acres of land, valued at $18 per acre; born in Devonshire, England, in 1823, came to America in 1851, and located in Canada, removed to Wisconsin in 1867. Married Ellen Murphy, a native of Ireland, who died in 1869; four children were the result of this union - George, Eliza, Mary and Ann. [I am not related to this family. I am posting this as a service and hope it helps!]