1817 - 1894 (77 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Miah William MURPHY, MRCS (Eng 1839) was born on 2 Mar 1817; died on 17 Aug 1894 in Cork. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Surgeon-Major
Notes:
New research (Feb 2013) has discovered that Charles Aloysius Murphy's father was not Miah William Murphy, but William Day Murphy, Surgeon Major of Limerick.
Miah William Murphy's name crops up in the following record -
LDS Collection: India Marriages, 1792-1948
Groom's Name: Francis Henry Braiton Murphy
Groom's Birth Date: 1855
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age: 28
Bride's Name: Eveline Constance Davidson (1901 Census - living in Sundays Well Road)
Bride's Birth Date: 1865
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age: 18
Marriage Date: 21 Feb 1883
Marriage Place: Bellary, Madras, India
Groom's Father's Name: Miah William Murphy
Groom's Mother's Name:
Bride's Father's Name: Alfred Augustus Davidson
Bride's Mother's Name:
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status: Widowed
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status: Single
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M75025-1
System Origin: India-EASy
Source Film Number: 521871
Reference Number:
LDS Ireland CRI records the following -
Name: Francis Henry Swinton Murphy
Registration District: Cork
Event Type: DEATHS
Registration Quarter and Year: Apr - Jun 1892
Estimated Birth Year: 1855
Age (at Death): 37
Mother's Maiden Name:
Film Number: 101597
Volume Number: 5
Page Number: 90
Digital Folder Number: 4200679
Image Number: 00141
Collection: Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958
Is this the same person as in the previous note?
Is there a transcription error somewhere?
http://www.maltaramc.com/regsurg/m/murphymw.html#1855
Occupation:
Source - General Medical Council - UK Medical Registers 1859-1959.
Miah William Murphy
1839 - Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England.
Date of Registration - 1859 Sept 22
1863 - Surgeon - 91st Regiment
1867 - Staff Surgeon-Major - Army
1875 - Deputy Inspector General of Army Hospitals
1879 - 11, Royal Parade, Cheltenham
1883 - Mount Vernon, (65) Sundays Well, Cork
1887 - ditto
1891 - ditto - Last entry
London Gazette -
80th Foot, Assistant-Surgeon Miah William Murphy, from the 33rd Foot,to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Tardrew, appointed- to the 1st Regiment, of Life Guards. Dated 1st November 1844.
Died:
Obituary in the British Medical Journal August 25th 1894. Page 448.
Surgeon-General MIAH WILLIAM MURPHY died at Cork on August 17th (1894), aged 80. He entered the service as Assistant Surgeon, July 22nd 1842, became Surgeon, March 3rd 1854; Surgeon-Major, July 22nd 1862; Deputy Surgeon-General, March 9th 1867; and Honorary Surgeon-General on retirement on half pay, Spetember 1st 1875.
Hart's Army List informs us that he served with the 80th Regiment (of Foot, Staffordshire Volunteers)during the Burmese war of 1852-53, and was present at the taking of Prome. He was also present as staff-surgeon to the Bengal Division with Sir J. Cheape's force at Donabew, where he was wounded. For his services he received the medal with clasp for Pegu.
Family/Spouse: Harriet ???. Harriet was born in 1829 in Scotland; died in 1907 in Cork. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 2
3. | ? MURPHY (1.Miah1) Notes:
She was mentioned in the newspaper article about Charles Murphy's death but no name was given
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4. | William Norman MURPHY, MD (1.Miah1) was born on 10 Nov 1862; was christened on 10 Dec 1862; died on 3 Jun 1890 in Allahabad, Bengal, India; was buried on 4 Jun 1890. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: 27 May 1886, Probably Cork; UK Medical Register
MD Master Surgeon, Royal University of Ireland.
Licensed Midwife K.Q. Coll. Phys. Ireland, 1886
- Military Service Entered: 05 Feb 1887, Cork; From Army Lists -
British Army Medical Staff (Surgeons ranking as Captains)
- Military: 1888, Cork/Queenstown; Hart's Army List.
Medical Staff. Page 385
- Military: Between Apr 1889 & Jun 1890, Bengal; From Army List.
He doesn't appear in the Army List in the Jun 1891 edition
Notes:
Birth:
THE LDS source - India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947 records-
William Norman Murphey
Birth 10 Nov 1862
Baptism 10 Dec 1862
Baptism place - Kamptee, Madras, India.
Father's name - Miah William Murphey
Mother's name - Harriet
Died:
GRO Army Deaths Overseas Index
1890 Page 277 - Simla - Aged 27
Simla is in the Hooghly district of the Indian state of West Bengal.
The LDS Source states his age was 29 (born 1861) and that he was an Army Surgeon.
The Irish Civil Registration Index records-
Registration District - Simla
Dec Q 1890
Estimated Birth Year 1863
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Generation: 3
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