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Re: James Murphy Barrhead Postmaster
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 10:00 GMT (UK) »
I mentioned in a previous post that he was old enough to serve in the 1st WW. There were a few Wm Murphy's that died serving with Scottish Regiments but difficult to to tie them down to your relative.

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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 10:31 GMT (UK) »
There are 9 service returns of war deaths for Wm Murphy's on SP. 3 have no age mentioned & 2 are in the right age group. A 21 yo in 1917 & a 22 yo in 1918. All the others are too old.
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« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 10:41 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Kloumann on Tuesday 24 March 20 10:31 GMT (UK)
There are 9 service returns of war deaths for Wm Murphy's on SP. 3 have no age mentioned & 2 are in the right age group. A 21 yo in 1917 & a 22 yo in 1918. All the others are too old.
You would need credits to check them.
Unfortunately the deaths recorded in the service returns don't list the names of the deceased's parents or spouse, so there is little point in looking at them in your case.

Try https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/ because very often (not always) the listing there does include the names of parents and/or spouse.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: James Murphy Barrhead Postmaster
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 11:51 GMT (UK) »
1 of the 2 Williams that fits the age group left a soldier's Will which is on SP. He was a private with Argyll & Southern Highlanders.

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« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 18:14 GMT (UK) »
SP has Wm Robinson Murphy b 1897 (+/- 1yr) dying 1971 in Scotts.

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« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 18:44 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: DonM on Tuesday 24 March 20 18:14 GMT (UK)
SP has Wm Robinson Murphy b 1897 (+/- 1yr) dying 1971 in Scotts.
In Shotts :)

See my reply #17 above.
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Re: James Murphy Barrhead Postmaster
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 24 March 20 19:50 GMT (UK) »
Scotts...I was in a hurry as I was being called by a higher authority.


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Re: James Murphy Barrhead Postmaster
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 26 March 20 10:09 GMT (UK) »
Thank you all so much, through your help I have been able to find out when James died with his birth, death and marriage certificates. I am still struggling with William's information on SP. but I will keep at it, I find SP difficult to navigate sometimes.
Thanks again for your help, much appreciated.
                                                           weeblether :)
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