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Henry Harry MURPHY (1869 - )
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Henry Harry MURPHY (1869 - ) Edward M MURPHY (1806 - 1882)











Bridget “Biddy” Mary O'DEA (1833 - 1915)











b. 1869 at Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
Parents:
Edward M MURPHY (1806 - 1882)
Bridget “Biddy” Mary O'DEA (1833 - 1915)
Siblings (7):
Mary MURPHY (1851 - 1881)
Jane MURPHY (1852 - 1929)
Catherine MURPHY (1854 - 1945)
Edward Laurence MURPHY (1856 - 1923)
James Edward MURPHY (1858 - 1928)
Andrew MURPHY (1862 - 1931)
John Stanley MURPHY (1865 - 1942)
Events in Henry Harry MURPHY (1869 - )'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1869 Henry Harry MURPHY was born Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
06 Sep 1882 13 Death of father Edward M MURPHY (aged 76) Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 73
19 Jul 1915 46 Death of mother Bridget “Biddy” Mary O'DEA (aged 82) Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 73
Source References:
73. Type: Book, Abbr: Pioneers of Tumut Valley, Title: Pioneers of the Tumult Valley , The History of Early Settlement, Auth: H.E. Snowden, Publ: Tumut & District Historical Society Incorporated, Date: 2004
- Reference = page 40 (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Chief Constable Edward Murphy and Constable D. Patton were, in 1839, the first regular police stationed in the area.

Constable Murphy had been a member of the first Water Police Squad.

Edward Murphy married Bridget O'Dea, of Tumut on the llth October 1850. After twenty-five years service as Chief Constable at Tumut he resigned and selected a grazing property near Wyangle where he died on 6th September 1882 aged76.

His widow, Bridget Murphy, sold the property to Patrick Geary and with her son Harry went to live in a cottage at Newtown on land now occupied by the Old Peoples' Homes. She died on the 19th July 1915, aged 87 years. Both Edward and Bridget are buried in unmarked graves in the Catholic section of the Tumut Pioneer Cemetery.

Their son Harry Murphy, learned his trade as a saddler and harness maker from James Blakeney.

Later he was in partnership in the business with Roland Blakeney and then established his own business.
This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
g.bell@bigpond.net.au
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Geoff Bell, September 2020
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