Jeremiah Murphy
- Born
- 1788-01-01 12:00:00
- Died
- 1847-01-01 12:00:00
- Gender
- Male
Jeremiah William Murphy, a reduced farmer, emigrated to Quebec with the Robinson Expedition from Buttevant, Cork.
I am his great-great-great-great granddaughter.
Denis Driscoll and his family emigrated on the same ship, Brunswick, in 1823. The Murphys married the Foleys in 1891. The Driscolls stayed in Benton Wisconsin, which was a mining town and now is a very small town with a church and a bar. The Murphys moved to Milwaukee in about 1920 to educate their many children. Several of them became professionals and two went to ivy league schools.
My grandfather, Frances Murphy, was a well known physician in Milwaukee when it was a booming town. His brother, Charles, was a Harvard-educated professor of Literature at the University of Maryland.
I am 97 percent Irish still. My relatives come from Dingle, Clear Lake, Buttevant, Killshanding, Mayo, Rathea, and one weird reference to Ballyos in County Clare. Any information about them is helpful.
I know very little about my Foley family other than my grandfather came from Dingle and some others from Waterford. A Foley married a Jennings from Mayo, my grandparents, in 1920. They did very well and the father of the bride was a very well known politician in Wisconsin.
All of these people were famine emigrants and I feel lucky they took the risk to come here.
Any information about these people helpful.
