Luke Murphy's Murphy Family Research deck — Ancestry-tree summary cards for great-great-grandparents back through 3rd-great-grandparent generation

Family research deck — Luke Murphy (user) self-prepared PowerPoint · private family-history research document · ~2026-05

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The user's own self-prepared family-research PowerPoint containing Ancestry.com tree screenshots (summary card per ancestor) for the documented direct family back through the 3rd-great-grandparent generation. Crystallizes the Ancestry-tree authoritative vital data for each ancestor. ## SLIDE-BY-SLIDE CONTENTS ### Slide 1: Title — "Murphy Family Research" by Luke Murphy (lukedmurphy@gmail.com, 925-408-1882) ### Slide 2: PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS (per user's Ancestry tree) - **James Joseph Murphy** (paternal grandfather) - BIRTH: 20 MAR 1914, Butte, Montana, USA - DEATH: 27 JANUARY 1972, La Mesa, San Diego County, California - **Agnes Bridget Kelly** (great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 29 JUN 1887, Walkerville, Montana - DEATH: JAN 12, 1967, Anaheim, Orange, California CRITICAL: Confirms **JJM Jr** as the user's **PATERNAL GRANDFATHER** (not great-grandfather as I had inferred from the existing GEDCOM-derived memory). This means: - User's father = one of JJM Jr's 6 children (Michelle, Marty, Chris, Melda, Maureen, **Dan**) - Per existing memory + 2012 Marie Murphy obit, Dan Murphy ("Dan (Jan) Murphy") is the youngest of the 6. Most plausibly Dan = the user's FATHER (not grandfather). - The existing memory entry assuming Dan = user's grandfather was WRONG. To be corrected. Also confirms: **Agnes Bridget Kelly** (b. 29 Jun 1887 Walkerville, d. 12 Jan 1967 Anaheim) is the user's great-grandmother — wife of JJM Sr (LA-d 1938). This is the SAME Agnes Kelly of the 1908-10-19 Kelly-Murphy wedding at St. Lawrence church Butte. Pins down JJM Jr's death day at **27 January 1972** (previously the archive only had year-only "1972"). ### Slide 3: PJM-LYNE LINE - **Patrick J. Murphy** (2nd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: 4 APR 1858, County Cork, Ireland - DEATH: 23 APR 1912, Warm Springs, Deer Lodge, MT - Photo accompanying: the "PATRICK J. MURPHY IS FOUND INSANE" clipping headline - **Ellen Lyne Murphy** (2nd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 15 NOVEMBER 1861, Ardgroom, County Cork, Ireland - DEATH: 23 AUGUST 1935, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT - **Myles "Mark" Lyne** (3rd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: ABT 1791, Ireland - DEATH: JUN 1872, Castletown Bearhaven, Cork, Ireland - **Margreta O'Shea** (3rd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 7 MAY 1839, Eyeries, Cork, Ireland - DEATH: MAR 1894, Skull, Ireland CRITICAL: Confirms PJM's authoritative birth date as **4 April 1858** (= aligning with the 1908 Butte Daily Post age 50; not the asylum form's age 52 / b.~1856). Also confirms Ellen's exact birth date **15 November 1861** (Ardgroom Cork). Confirms Myles "Mark" Lyne (b. ~1791, d. JUN 1872 Castletown Bearhaven) as the SAME person whose 1872 Kilcatherine RD death cert is in the archive (1872-05-10 — minor discrepancy of day; the Ancestry "JUN 1872" might be approximate; the cert's "10 May 1872" is the authoritative day). Confirms Margaret O'Shea/Shea (b. 7 May 1839 Eyeries, d. MAR 1894 Schull) as Myles's wife — same person as the 1865 Lyne-Shea marriage cert's Margaret Shea-alias-Sullivan widow. WAIT: the 1865 cert had Myles as a WIDOWER and Margaret Shea as a WIDOW (previously m. John Sullivan 1855). If Margaret was b. 1839 + widowed by 1865 (age 26), her first husband John Sullivan must have died young (within 10 years of their 1855 marriage when she was 16 and he was likely 20s+). Margaret then m. Myles Lyne 1865 (he 74, she 26 = a 48-year age gap). Their child Ellen Lyne Murphy b. 1861 — BEFORE the 1865 marriage. So Ellen could be: (a) A daughter of Margaret's prior marriage to John Sullivan (would be Ellen SULLIVAN by birth) — but the existing 1881 marriage cert + 1883 baptism cert call her Ellen LYNE, suggesting she's Myles's biological daughter (b) A daughter of Myles's prior marriage (Myles was a widower in 1865) — Ellen's actual mother (Myles's first wife) predeceased 1865 (c) Born to Margaret + Myles out of wedlock and legitimized by the 1865 marriage (less plausible in a 19th-century Catholic Beara village) Most plausibly (b) — Ellen was Myles's daughter by his first wife (predeceased 1865), and Margaret O'Shea was Ellen's stepmother. The Ancestry tree's "Margreta O'Shea" label as Ellen's "mother" may be a stepmother / second- marriage tree-completion choice. ### Slide 4: KELLY + CHATHAM LINE (user's great-great-grandparents on the JJM-Sr's-wife's side) - **Mary Chatham Kelly** (2nd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 11 DEC 1861, Hancock, Houghton, Michigan, USA - DEATH: 28 MAY 1940, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California - **John Kelly** (2nd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: JUN 1854, County Claire [Clare], Ireland - DEATH: 21 JUN 1914, Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, USA - **John A. Chatham** (3rd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: 16 DEC 1829, Avoca, Wicklow, Ireland - DEATH: 1901, Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, USA - **Catherine Ryan Chatham** (3rd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: MAY 1835, Tipperary, Ireland - DEATH: 5 OCT 1912, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT - **Catherine "Kate" Chatham Maloughney** (3rd great-aunt) - BIRTH: OCT 1857, Michigan - DEATH: 20 APR 1916, Walkerville, Silver Bow County, MT CONFIRMS: **Catherine Kate Chatham Maloughney** = Mary Chatham Kelly's sister (per the user's tree) = the same Catherine of the 1916-04-21 Anaconda Standard obit (which the archive holds). The user's tree marks her as "3rd great-aunt" — sister of Mary Chatham Kelly (his 2nd great-grandmother). Pins down: **John A. Chatham** (1829 Avoca → 1901 Butte) + **Catherine Ryan Chatham** (1835 Tipperary → 1912 Butte) = user's 3rd-great-grandparents on the Chatham line. ## FRAMEWORK CONSEQUENCES 1. **B (1927-d JJM at 79 Missoula avenue) is a DIFFERENT James J. Murphy from JJM Sr** (= the user's great-grandfather, A=C per existing merge memory). CLAUDE.md's three-James framework needs revision: - **JJM (= A=C = user's great-grandfather)**: b. 4 Apr 1858? NO wait — that's PJM. JJM = the SON of PJM = b. 1883 Beara, d. 1938 LA. He's the Hennessy-Centerville-AOH JJM AND the LA-d-1938 JJM (per the A=C merge memory). Married Agnes Bridget Kelly (b. 1887 Walkerville → d. 1967 Anaheim) on 19 Oct 1908 St. Lawrence church Butte. 5+ children: Agnes, Eileen, James Jr, Imelda, Joan, Frances. - **1927-d JJM** = separate person (with 6 sons Vincent/Francis/Emmet/James/Paul/William and wife also named Agnes Kelly). Two Agnes Kelly Murphys in Butte. Need to disambiguate in CLAUDE.md. 2. **The user's lineage to PJM is**: - User (b. ~1980s-90s) - Father = Dan Murphy (b. ~1954, JJM Jr's youngest) - Grandfather = JJM Jr (b. 20 Mar 1914 Butte, d. 27 Jan 1972 La Mesa) - Great-grandfather = JJM Sr / "James Joseph Murphy" (b. 1883 Ardgroom Cork, d. 1938 LA, = candidate C per CLAUDE.md = A=C per merge) - Great-grandmother = Agnes Bridget Kelly (b. 1887 Walkerville, d. 1967 Anaheim) - Great-great-grandfather = PJM Patrick J. Murphy (b. 4 Apr 1858 Cork, d. 23 Apr 1912 Warm Springs) - Great-great-grandmother = Ellen Lyne Murphy (b. 15 Nov 1861 Ardgroom, d. 23 Aug 1935 Butte) - 3rd-great-grandfather = Myles "Mark" Lyne (b. ~1791, d. JUN 1872 Castletown Bearhaven) - 3rd-great-grandmother = Margreta O'Shea (b. 7 May 1839 Eyeries, d. Mar 1894 Schull) — **Ellen's biological mother** per user confirmation 2026-05-27. The Ellen-b-1861 vs 1865-Lyne-Shea-marriage date puzzle is open (most likely the 1861 census birth year is unreliable, OR an unrecorded earlier union) - On JJM-Sr's-wife side: John A. Chatham 1829 + Catherine Ryan 1835 → Mary Chatham 1861 → m. John Kelly 1854 → Agnes Bridget Kelly 1887 → m. JJM Sr → JJM Jr → Dan → user 3. The existing CLAUDE.md framework's three-James-Murphys- in-Butte cluster needs an update: A=C is one person (the family JJM, b. 1883 Ardgroom); B is a separate 1927-d Butte James J. Murphy + Agnes Kelly couple.

People

  • role: author and subject · family confidence: 100 certain
  • role: paternal grandfather per users ancestry tree · family confidence: 100 certain

    born: 1914-03-20

    Per the user's Ancestry tree (this deck): JJM Jr is the user's PATERNAL GRANDFATHER (not great-grandfather as the existing GEDCOM-derived memory implied). Pinned down death date: 27 January 1972 La Mesa.

  • Agnes Bridget /Kelly/(as printed: Agnes Bridget Kelly)
    role: great grandmother · family confidence: 100 certain

    born: 1887-06-29

    Per the user's Ancestry tree: GREAT-GRANDMOTHER. Wife of JJM Sr (LA-d 1938). The 1908 Kelly-Murphy wedding at St. Lawrence — confirms Agnes Bridget Kelly (b. 1887 Walkerville) as the bride, not a different Agnes. Death pinned at 12 Jan 1967 Anaheim Orange CA.

  • role: second great grandfather · family confidence: 100 certain

    born: 1858-04-04

    Ancestry birth date 4 Apr 1858 — aligns with PJM's own 1908 self-stated age 50 (Butte Daily Post Jan 7 1908) perfectly. Earlier asylum-form age 52 was 2 years off.

  • role: second great grandmother · family confidence: 100 certain

    born: 1861-11-15

    Ancestry birth date 15 Nov 1861 Ardgroom — fits a child born to Myles Lyne (1791) probably by his first wife (he was 70 in 1861), since Margaret O'Shea (b. 1839) was only 22 in 1861 and didn't marry Myles until 1865.

  • role: third great grandfather · family confidence: 100 certain

    born: ~1791

    Ancestry "Myles Mark Lyne" = the same person as the 1872 Kilcatherine RD death cert's Myles Lyne age 81 farmer of Ardgroom. Confirms b.~1791. Death month "JUN 1872" per Ancestry vs cert's "10 May 1872" — cert authoritative.

  • Mary (Chatham) Kelly(as printed: Mary Chatham Kelly)
    role: second great grandmother chatham side · family confidence: 100 certain

    born: 1861-12-11

    Confirmed birth date 11 Dec 1861 Hancock Houghton MI; death 28 May 1940 LA. The user's 2nd great-grandmother on the Chatham-Kelly side.

Also mentioned

  • Margreta O'Shea (b. 7 May 1839 Eyeries; d. Mar 1894 Schull) · third_great_grandmother_lyne_side

    Per the user's tree. Most plausibly Myles Lyne's SECOND wife (m. 1865) and Ellen's STEPMOTHER (not biological mother, since Ellen b. 1861 predates the 1865 Lyne-Shea marriage).

  • John Kelly (b. Jun 1854 Co. Clare Ireland; d. 21 Jun 1914 Butte) · second_great_grandfather_kelly_side

    Confirmed birth/death. Per CLAUDE.md cluster context, John Kelly was Mr. John Kelly of 412 West Daly street Walkerville (the 1908 Kelly-Murphy wedding's bride's father).

  • John A. Chatham (b. 16 Dec 1829 Avoca Wicklow; d. 1901 Butte) · third_great_grandfather_chatham_side

    Confirmed Avoca Wicklow origin. Father of Mary Chatham Kelly + Catherine Chatham Maloughney (per the 1916 Maloughney obit's sister cluster).

  • Catherine Ryan Chatham (b. May 1835 Tipperary; d. 5 Oct 1912 Butte) · third_great_grandmother_chatham_side

    Confirmed Tipperary Ireland origin — Ryan was her maiden name. Wife of John A. Chatham.

  • Catherine Kate Chatham Maloughney (b. Oct 1857 Michigan; d. 20 Apr 1916 Walkerville) · third_great_aunt

    User's 3rd great-aunt (Mary Chatham Kelly's sister) — matches the existing 1916 Anaconda Standard obit.

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  • RESOLVED 2026-05-27 per user: JJM Jr IS the user's paternal grandfather; Dan Murphy is the user's father. Memory + the affected person records (JJM Jr, Marie Schueller, Dan Murphy) + the Marie obit + the JJM Jr resume + the Oliver Murphy letter have been updated accordingly.
  • RESOLVED 2026-05-27 per user: Margreta O'Shea is Ellen Lyne's BIOLOGICAL mother, not stepmother. The Ellen-b-1861 vs 1865-Lyne-Shea-marriage date puzzle remains open — most likely the 1861 census birth year is unreliable. Ellen's biological mother = Myles Lyne's first wife (predeceased 1865).
  • "John Kelly born JUN 1854 Co. Claire (Clare) Ireland" — refines existing archive's Kelly identification. Worth a Clare-Kelly-line back-pass for further details.
  • The 1927-d James J. Murphy at 79 Missoula avenue is DEFINITIVELY a different person from the user's great-grandfather JJM Sr (LA-d 1938). The CLAUDE.md three-James framework needs A=C confirmation (existing memory) PLUS clear B-as-separate framing.

Source ID: 2026-05-27_luke-murphy-research-deck-ancestry-cards

Reference: PowerPoint deck + PDF export of the user's Ancestry-tree research summary slides

Accessed by lukedmurphy on 2026-05-27.