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- 1851-2011 (Creation)
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426pp
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Scope and content
-Researcher Laney Weston’s biographical information on William Murphy and his extended Murphy (paternal) and Ritchie (maternal) families;
-Weston’s correspondence with Kerby A. Miller;
-Miller’s notes on the Presbyterian parish of Larne and Kilwaughter, County Antrim;
-1851 Irish census records;
-Bruce D. Boling’s notes on the Murphy family;
-abstracts of the Murphy brothers’ letters;
-Miller’s introductory essay on the William Murphy letters;
-transcripts of 19 of the Murphy letters along with reproductions of 4 letters;
-newspaper clippings, photographs, genealogies, and other information regarding the Ritchie family in Newburgh, New York and Ottawa, Ontario compiled by Wilson and Norma Grainger;
-copies of William Murphy legal documents compiled by Wilson;
-Miller’s bibliographical notes on the Great Famine in Ulster.