Patrick "Pat" J. Murphy (Cork-born bartender / shoemaker; d. 1912 Warm Springs MT)

Also known as: Pat Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Paddy Murphy, Patricius Murphy (1858 Gort baptism Latin)

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Cork-born bartender (formerly shoemaker in Ireland per Aunt Theresa's 1967 letter). Trail: Eyeries parish, Co. Cork → emigrated via New York March 1882 → Jamestown, Stutsman County, Dakota Territory by Nov 1884 (naturalization) and mid-1885 (territorial census, age 26, bartender for D. M. Kelleher) → Butte, Montana by c.1888. Married Ellen Lyne in Ardgroom Chapel on **7 February 1881** (civil cert: groom's residence Eyeries, groom's father James Murphy Farmer; bride's residence Ardgroom, bride's father Myles Lyne Farmer; registrar's district Kilcatherine, Co. Cork). Three known children: James Joseph (b. 26 Jul 1883 Ireland), Daniel (b. Aug 1894 MT), Theresa (b. May 1898 MT). Sister Miss Margaret Murphy (unmarried, b. ~1867-70, on 1892 ship manifest age 22, lived with the family in Butte through 1916). Sister Mary Sullivan (1908 hearing testimony). Niece Nora Sullivan (daughter of Patrick Sullivan + Catherine Murphy, b. Mar 1888 Slieve, Eyeries; lived with the family in Butte per 1910 census). Niece Maggie Murphy (1908 testimony, parent unaccounted for). Butte addresses: 407 W. Cobban (1900 federal census) → 120 W. Quartz (by 1904 directory, Court House Annex building; held through 1908 insanity hearing) → Warm Springs Insane Asylum (committed Mar 1908) → 3 W. Agate (April 1912 death). Suffered a paralytic stroke c. 1897 and was also injured about the head in a mine accident at some earlier date. Examined for insanity Jan 7 1908 — found sick not insane, sent to county poor farm. Re-examined Mar 23 1908 and committed to Warm Springs (4-year tenure; secondary dementia per death cert). Died at the asylum 23 April 1912. **PARENTAGE — TWO COMPETING HYPOTHESES, NEITHER CLOSED** (per Luke Murphy's April 2026 "Patrick Murphy of County Cork" genealogical briefing; see archive/documents/family_documents/ when filed): - **Hypothesis A (the 1858 Gort baptism)**: Pat = the Patrick Murphy baptised 4 April 1858 at Gort, Eyeries parish (NLI Eyeries 2, p. 102, entry 8), father Joseph Murphy, mother Margaret Crounhane, sponsors Cornelius Crounhane and Ellen Murphy. The "age-driven candidate." Strengths: 5 independent US records cluster at 1858; 1900 federal census month-precision "Apr 1858" matches; son named James Joseph preserves both the marriage-cert "James" and the baptism-register "Joseph." Weaknesses: requires the father Joseph to have been known as James in daily life (no independent confirmation yet); requires O'Dwyer's Annals of Beara p. 271 to be wrong on the mother's name (it gives Mary O'Leary, not Margaret Crounhane); Aunt Theresa's "Balykrewan" (= Ballycrovane) townland doesn't match Gort. - **Hypothesis B (the 1850 Ballycruane baptism, unified family)**: Pat = the Patrick Murphy baptised 7 April 1850 at Ballycruane (= Ballycrovane), Eyeries parish (NLI Eyeries 2, p. 63, entry 10), father James Murphy, mother Margaret Harrington. Same couple O'Dwyer p. 270 calls James "Seamus Mor" Murphy + Peig Uonhi (Harrington) of Ballycrovane (Peig = Irish for Margaret). The "family-structure candidate." Strengths: father's name matches the 1881 marriage cert directly (no dual-name assumption); Aunt Theresa's "Balykrewan" matches Ballycrovane exactly; the sibling web snaps together — Kate (Seamus Mor's daughter) = the Kate who married Paddy Tailor O'Sullivan 1884 (and whose daughter Nora Sullivan lived with our Pat in Butte); brother Michael (May 1864) plausibly matches the "Michael" godparent on JJM's 1883 baptism. Weaknesses: requires EITHER (i) Pat lied about his age by 8 years for decades, or (ii) the 1850 Paddy died young and a second Patrick was born ~1858 to the same couple named after him (unfound records); requires O'Dwyer's p. 270 explicit "Paddy → Rosmacowen" claim to be wrong or about a different Paddy; requires O'Dwyer's p. 271 mother "Mary O'Leary" to be a slip for Margaret/Peig Harrington. Per the briefing's honest current read: "Neither hypothesis is closed. The age evidence genuinely favors 1858. The sibling evidence genuinely favors the Seamus Mor family." Resolution requires (any one of): an infant Patrick Murphy burial in Eyeries 1850-1858; a second marriage by James Murphy of Ballycrovane in Eyeries ~1865-67; or sibling baptisms for Joseph + Margaret Crounhane. **Previously-disfavored framework**: The 1992 Donald V. Murphy letter's "Pat = son of Tady Murphy (b. 1825) of Clounaglaskin" is now superseded by both A and B. [[person_timothy_tady_murphy_1825]] held at fc=0 for archaeology only. **PRIOR YAML ERROR**: between 2026-05-28 morning and afternoon this record briefly listed `son_of: person_seamus_mor_murphy_pjm_father` and birth.place = place_ballyrovane based on incomplete information. The April 2026 briefing makes clear that's premature — Seamus Mor framework = Hypothesis B = one of two open candidates, not the resolved answer. Reverted 2026-05-28 evening.