Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/75/7
Title
Miles Murphy family history
Date(s)
- 12/03/2009-02/05/2009 (Creation)
Level of description
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Extent and medium
10pp
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Email correspondence from 2009 between Kerby A. Miller, Daniel Gahan, and Dennis McLane concerning research into possible links between Irish emigrants in Frampton, Quebec, and participants in the 1798 Rebellion in County Wexford. McLane presents extensive circumstantial evidence suggesting that his ancestor, Miles Murphy, was the same individual named in rebellion records as a United Irishman and later a state prisoner in Kilmainham Jail. McLane argues that Murphy’s emigration to Quebec in 1806 may have followed imprisonment or exile, and that subsequent migration from Wexford to Frampton occurred through chain migration.