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Luke Murphy family tree (Ancestry.com) · private user export · 2026-05-27

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Summary

Luke Murphy's personal family tree as exported from Ancestry.com on 27 May 2026. GEDCOM 5.5.1 format, UTF-8. Contains 1480 individuals across 460 families. Parsed and integrated into archive/people/people.yaml by archive/scripts/import_gedcom.py on 2026-05-27. 21 GEDCOM individuals matched against existing person records (filling in branch tags and the gedcom_id back-reference); 110 new person records created for branched individuals not previously catalogued; 1349 unbranched individuals not imported (the branch walker assigns branches only to ancestors, descendants, and spouses of the anchor's paternal and maternal lines). The user's anchor is **Luke Daniel Murphy (b. 12/20/1986 Berkeley CA)**. The paternal nucleus is **James Joseph Murphy (b. 26 Jul 1883 Ardgroom, Co. Cork, Ireland; d. 17 Dec 1938 Los Angeles)** — confirmed by the GEDCOM as the user's direct James (J.) Murphy ancestor, fixing the identification per the CLAUDE.md three-James-Murphy framework: the user's JJM is **C** (the LA-d. 1938 James Murphy son of Pat-and-Ellen). A and B (the JJM-Centerville-AOH figure and the 1927-d. James J. Murphy of 79 Missoula) are NOT in the user's direct line per the GEDCOM.

People

  • role: anchor paternal nucleus · family confidence: 95 certain

    Anchor of the GEDCOM tree's paternal line per ANCHOR_MATCHES in archive/scripts/import_gedcom.py.

  • Patrick Murphy (my ancestor)(as printed: Patrick J. Murphy)
    role: paternal grandfather · family confidence: 95 certain

    Husband of Ellen, father of James Joseph Murphy. GEDCOM family F127 names him explicitly. Married Ellen at Ardgroom, Co. Cork on 13 Feb 1881.

  • role: maternal grandmother of jjm descendants · family confidence: 75 strong

    Mother of Mrs. James J. Murphy of Victoria Ave LA (C's widow) per the 1940 Montana Standard obit. Matched to the GEDCOM Mary Chatham of Walkerville.

Places

Themes

Story threads

Tags

  • source_primary_family
  • evidence_supporting

Related sources

Transcription
transcription: complete · confidence high
# Family-tree summary — Luke Murphy Ancestry GEDCOM (2026-05-27) **Source**: Luke Daniel Murphy's Ancestry.com family tree, exported as GEDCOM 5.5.1 on 27 May 2026. **Counts**: 1480 individuals, 460 families. **Anchor**: Luke Daniel Murphy (b. 12/20/1986 Berkeley, CA). This file summarises the tree's structural skeleton for the paternal nucleus. The full GEDCOM lives at `source.ged` (gitignored). Parsed into `archive/people/people.yaml` by `archive/scripts/import_gedcom.py`. --- ## Paternal-Murphy nucleus chain ``` Patrick J. Murphy + Ellen (m. 13 Feb 1881, Ardgroom, Co. Cork) │ ├──── James Joseph Murphy (b. 26 Jul 1883 Ardgroom Co. Cork; d. 17 Dec 1938 LA) │ │ m. (LA, name TBC from GEDCOM matching) │ ├──── James J. Murphy Jr. m. Marie A. Schueller │ ├──── Agnes Terese Murphy m. John Paul Ward Llewellyn (1940) │ ├──── Imelda Murphy │ ├──── Joan Claire Murphy │ ├──── Dahl Murphy │ └──── Frances Murphy (d. LA 1930 age 6) │ ├──── Daniel L. Murphy (b. 1894 Butte; Boucher's clothing 1938) └──── Theresa Murphy (Seattle, 1938) ``` ## Kelly / Chatham in-law chain (paternal in-law) ``` [Chatham parents — names TBC from GEDCOM] │ ├──── Mary Chatham + John Kelly (Walkerville) │ │ │ └──── Mrs. James J. Murphy (LA, Victoria Ave; widow of C in 1940) │ └──── Miss Mary "Mamie" Kelly (LA, unmarried; d. 1954) │ └──── Mrs. Fred Hauser (Seattle) │ └──── Walter Kelly (LA) │ ├──── Mrs. William Pascoe (Butte) ├──── Mrs. Nellie Tracy (Butte) └──── Mrs. Agnes Brennan (Butte) ``` ## What the GEDCOM resolved 1. **The user's JJM is C**, not A or B. The CLAUDE.md three-James- Murphy framework now has the user's identification anchored to the LA-d. 1938 James Joseph Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom). 2. **Patrick and Ellen** are confirmed as Pat the bartender (d. 1912) and Ellen Murphy (d. 1935), per existing CLAUDE.md. 3. **James Joseph Murphy** was born **Ardgroom, Co. Cork** (a parish on the Beara peninsula, immediately west of Castletown- bere and Eyeries) — places now in the archive's place vocab. 4. **Marriage of Patrick and Ellen**: 13 Feb 1881 Ardgroom — gives a hard date for the family's pre-emigration life. 5. **James Joseph Murphy emigrated 1891-1892** (the GEDCOM has both arrival dates; the 1892 New York arrival has a Microfilm Serial reference). ## What the GEDCOM did NOT resolve (yet) - **Ellen's surname (maiden name)** — needs review against the GEDCOM (the parser has the name but the report didn't surface it here; check `gedcom_id` on `person_ellen_murphy_fox_hotel_1935` for the link-back). - **The double-Kelly-marriage hypothesis** — whether B (1927-d James J. Murphy of 79 Missoula) married a Kelly sister of C's wife. The GEDCOM either lists Agnes Kelly (B's wife) as a Mary Chatham Kelly daughter or it doesn't. Resolve on next pass. - **The relationship (if any) to the Ballycrovane Murphys** in the GEDCOM around line 48438 — James Murphy + Julia O'Sullivan-Seer family. They share the same parish region (Beara) but the GEDCOM treats them as a separate family. Possibly cousins, possibly unrelated. --- ## How the data was integrated - `archive/scripts/import_gedcom.py` parsed the GEDCOM, walked branches from the anchor, and matched 21 GEDCOM individuals to existing people.yaml records (filling in `branch:`, `is_living:`, `is_nucleus:`, `is_book_subject:`, `gedcom_id:` fields). - 110 new person records were created for branched individuals not previously catalogued — sorted into branches per `archive/vocab/family_branches.yaml`. - 1349 unbranched GEDCOM individuals were NOT imported (they're outside the paternal/maternal ancestor + descendant + spouse graph from the anchor). - Living individuals (no death date AND birth year < 100 years ago) carry `is_living: true` so the public-facing app loader can filter them out of any deployed view.

Open questions

  • The provisional double-Kelly-marriage hypothesis (B + C married Kelly sisters) can now be resolved against the GEDCOM. If the GEDCOM names Agnes Kelly (B's wife) as a daughter of John + Mary Chatham Kelly of Walkerville, the hypothesis is confirmed and B should be added to the user's paternal in-law graph; otherwise the hypothesis is rejected and B stays as a peer figure with no direct family tie.
  • The 12 unmatched key-name records (Charles H. Gallagher, Judge J. J. Lynch, et al.) in the GEDCOM may be tree-side in-law connections worth re-examining. The auto-matcher found weak matches that were intentionally rejected — review case-by-case.

Source ID: 2026-05-27_family-tree_luke-murphy-ancestry-gedcom

Reference: Ancestry.com tree RIN 66945036, exported 2026-05-27 15:24 UTC

Accessed by lukedmurphy on 2026-05-27.