Miss Margaret Murphy (b. ~1867-70 Eyeries Co. Cork; emigrated 1892; never married; sister of Pat the bartender)
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Miss Margaret Murphy (b. ~1867-70 Eyeries Co. Cork; emigrated 1892; never married; sister of Pat the bartender)

Also known as: Maggie Murphy (1908 hearing — but see disambig note re sister vs niece), Margt. Murphy (1892 manifest), Miss Margaret Murphy

family confidence: 10 — flag

Unmarried sister of person_patrick_j_murphy_bartender_1908. **Documented appearances** (per April 2026 Patrick Murphy Briefing + earlier vision-pass material): - **1892 ship manifest** (= Ellen Lyne's crossing to join Pat in Montana): line 118 "Margt. Murphy, 22, Spinster, New York" — alongside Ellen Murphy (line 119) and James Murphy (line 120, age recorded as 4 though actually ~8-9 per family age-fudging pattern). The age-22 reading implies birth ~1870. - **1908-01-07 Butte Daily Post** insanity hearing — testimony from "Maggie Murphy, a niece" (later corrected by Butte Miner Jan 8 to "a sister") - **1908-01-08 Butte Miner** insanity hearing correction: "Maggie Murphy, a sister" - **1910 US federal census** Butte household 505/55/98: "Margaret Murphy, sister, age 40" (→ birth ~1870) - **1912-04-24 Butte Miner** Pat Murphy obituary: survived by "a sister, Miss Margaret Murphy, of Butte" — the "Miss" is explicit - Disappears from US records after 1916 Implied birth year ~1867-1870 from the two age-statements (22 in 1892, 40 in 1910). Both Hyp A (Joseph + Margaret Crounhane) and Hyp B (James + Margaret Harrington / Seamus Mor) have to account for her existence as Pat's sister with a ~10-13-year age gap; under Hyp B she would have to be either a child O'Dwyer omitted or a half-sister from a hypothetical second marriage by James after Peig Uonhi's death. See person_patrick_j_murphy_bartender_1908 for the full two-hypothesis discussion.

Facts

Birth:
~1870, place_ireland (date confidence: 75)
Residence:
Butte, Montana

Relationships

Nexus

Solid edges: declared/inferred relationships. Dashed edges: appear together in sources (thicker = more shared sources). Click a name to open that person.

sister of×2×2×2Patrick "Pat" J. MurphyPatrick MurphyEllenMaryMiss Margaret Murphy

Appears with

Sources linking to this person

≥75 — High confidence2

  • 1908-01-07 — The Butte Daily Post, p.6JOHN BARLEYCORN IS VERY BUSY MAN — HE SENDS MURPHY TO THE POOR FARM, AN INVALID; BOYLE GOES TO THE ASYLUM
    role: witness_niece_or_sister_of_pjm · confidence on this source: 95 · as printed: Maggie Murphy
  • 1908-01-08 — The Butte Miner, p.12PAT MURPHY FOUND TO BE SICK AND NOT INSANE
    role: witness_sister_or_niece_of_pjm · confidence on this source: 95 · as printed: Maggie Murphy

Family notes (private; from people.yaml)

**REVISED 2026-05-28 PM** after Patrick Murphy Briefing read. Was previously tagged "Provisional Tady-tree daughter" — but the Tady framework is now disfavored. She is one of the load-bearing pieces of evidence for both Pat parentage hypotheses: under Hyp A she would be a sibling of Joseph + Margaret Crounhane's 1858 Patrick (unfound sibling-baptism); under Hyp B she would be a late child of Seamus Mor's family that O'Dwyer p. 270 omitted, OR a half-sister from a hypothetical second marriage by James. The "Maggie Murphy" who appears in the 1908 Butte Daily Post as "a niece" is most likely either (a) the same Margaret transcribed as "Maggie" with relation misreported, OR (b) a SEPARATE Maggie Murphy who was Mary Sullivan's daughter (= Pat's niece via the not-yet-recorded person_mary_murphy_sullivan_sister_of_pat — see TODO.md). The 1908 Butte Miner Jan 8 corrects to "sister" — so most likely (a) is correct and the niece reading was the error.

Person ID: person_margaret_murphy_sister_of_pat_bartender