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The Common Room / Re: Moshers Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Thursday 08 October 20 06:25 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: attunga11 on Thursday 08 October 20 06:12 BST (UK)
Hi again,
I have been going through my paperwork and found the certificate of freedom for James Murphy I got from the NSW state archives. It is for the the James born 1816, it states he was born in Bardon (I think this should read Bandon) County Cork. You might already have this too, not sure if this will assist you with tracing his parents, maybe there are church records for that parish, Irish records are not easy to locate

Hi Attunga, that’s very interesting, I haven’t seen this certificate of freedom. If I PM’ed you my email address would you be kind enough to flick me a copy of this?

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The Common Room / Re: Moshers Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 07 October 20 07:20 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: attunga11 on Wednesday 07 October 20 05:29 BST (UK)
Hi,
I have a copy of the original transcript of that James Murphy’s baptism, dated 14th October, 1816. It says the parents are Tim Murphy and Ellen Sullivan, and the sponsors are Denis Murphy and Mary Cotter.  Because of the date 1816 I thought this might be the James Murphy who arrived age 14 on the Andromeda in 1830, not one of the two who arrived on the Lonarch. 
Ellen Murphy the sponsor for their son John could be a relative, there are a few Ellen Murphy’s on the convict lists, maybe she followed in her brothers footsteps

Thanks, Attunga. I have that transcript as well and have been attempting to find Tim & Ellen somewhere to try to track James but haven’t found anything yet.

The 1816 born James Murphy seems to be the most popular answer for the father of John, but I wish I could find something more ironclad. I want to get ahold of birth certificates for his children but it seems only baptism records are available.

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The Common Room / Re: Moshers Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Tuesday 06 October 20 21:54 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Maiden Stone on Tuesday 06 October 20 15:18 BST (UK)
Quote from: RyanMurphy on Monday 05 October 20 15:58 BST (UK)

I have noticed on Ancestry that he possibly had the parents “Tim Murphy” and “Ellen Sullivan”. This didn’t excite me too much, however on the crappy NSW BDM’s cert I got for their son John Murphy it listed a “sponsor/Godparent” as Ellen Murphy which is presumably Ellen Sullivan. I’m hoping I’ll have better luck find something on his parents.

The Ellen Murphy who was John's sponsor would have been a different Ellen Murphy to the one who was his mother. Parents can't be godparents. Siblings can and were godparents in big families so the possibility that Ellen was an elder sister should be kept in mind. Choice of godparents may have been influenced by who was available.   

Thank you! Annoying that it isn’t his mum, but good that this info could open up some more things for me to research.

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« on: Tuesday 06 October 20 03:49 BST (UK)  »
Thank you that was driving me mad!

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The Common Room / Re: Moshers Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Monday 05 October 20 15:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

Sorry to bump an old thread like this, but I am also trying to obtain information on my GGGGF James Murphy, the partner of Catherine Higgins/Shean/Callagher/Smith

I’m kind of reverse searching his parents to work out who he was.

I have noticed on Ancestry that he possibly had the parents “Tim Murphy” and “Ellen Sullivan”. This didn’t excite me too much, however on the crappy NSW BDM’s cert I got for their son John Murphy it listed a “sponsor/Godparent” as Ellen Murphy which is presumably Ellen Sullivan. I’m hoping I’ll have better luck find something on his parents.

If anyone has additional information after all this time, I’d love for someone to flick me an message to discuss.


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