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Limerick / Re: Maurice Blaney Murphy...Mount Plummer
« on: Thursday 02 July 15 06:13 BST (UK) »
Hi
Thursday is my day off and I try and do a little on the old family tree. Like you I only have what is publicly available and nothing much on the recent living descendants. Even the info on my own branch is a bit patchy- sometimes you don’t like to intrude on non family history type people. There is one living child of Maurice and Isabella and she is now 90. I have got some photos of her siblings and some others that I am happy to pass on. I think photos and news reports and artefacts really bring the past alive.
I am only now trying to write a timeline of people and events to fill in the picture a bit more. The collecting part is addictive, the collation part more tedious. It seems the Murphys were mobile, moving to WA and Sydney.
My daughter went to Lone Pine 2 years ago and took some lovely photos of the memorial for Henry and the surrounding area at Gallipoli. You can get these online I think but it was nice to have family in the photos too. You can have these if you want.
I have been following the Maurice Blaney trail which took me to the hotels of Melbourne and the Owl club and then to the Old Melbourne Cemetery. It seems Maurice or MB was a very entertaining fellow and I’m not sure if this is the elder or younger Maurice. I was going to check timeline and dates to see if that helps to identify which one. Would you know the answer to this mystery?
Do you have a picture of Maurice the First? If there ever was one, I wonder where it could have ended up. His Will makes for interesting reading.
Lovely to hear from you. Happy hunting. Cheers Kimary
Thursday is my day off and I try and do a little on the old family tree. Like you I only have what is publicly available and nothing much on the recent living descendants. Even the info on my own branch is a bit patchy- sometimes you don’t like to intrude on non family history type people. There is one living child of Maurice and Isabella and she is now 90. I have got some photos of her siblings and some others that I am happy to pass on. I think photos and news reports and artefacts really bring the past alive.
I am only now trying to write a timeline of people and events to fill in the picture a bit more. The collecting part is addictive, the collation part more tedious. It seems the Murphys were mobile, moving to WA and Sydney.
My daughter went to Lone Pine 2 years ago and took some lovely photos of the memorial for Henry and the surrounding area at Gallipoli. You can get these online I think but it was nice to have family in the photos too. You can have these if you want.
I have been following the Maurice Blaney trail which took me to the hotels of Melbourne and the Owl club and then to the Old Melbourne Cemetery. It seems Maurice or MB was a very entertaining fellow and I’m not sure if this is the elder or younger Maurice. I was going to check timeline and dates to see if that helps to identify which one. Would you know the answer to this mystery?
Do you have a picture of Maurice the First? If there ever was one, I wonder where it could have ended up. His Will makes for interesting reading.
Lovely to hear from you. Happy hunting. Cheers Kimary