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Katherine Murphy (1886 - 1979)

Katherine Murphy
Born [location unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at age 93 [location unknown]
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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Katherine /Murphy/
Given Name: Katherine
Surname: Murphy
Name: Katherine /Murphy/
Given Name: Katherine
Surname: Murphy
Name: Katherine /Murphy/
Given Name: Katherine
Surname: Murphy

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Katherine /Murphy/.

User ID

User ID: 75AA57647D8842FFB6E45B44F61BA7A2B3D6

Data Changed

Data Changed:
Date: 2 Mar 2008
Time: 18:05

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Note

Note: #NI196

Sources

  1. Murphy-4975 was created by Scott Blodgett through the import of alotofblodgetts.ged on Feb 19, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
  • Source: S59 Abbreviation: Ancestry Family Trees Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files were combined to create this source citation. Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

Notes

Note NI196Katherine we all knew as "Kate", and to some of the family she was "Mufty". It is while pulling this all together now that I wish that I had had more when Aunt Kate was alive to glean more information from her. She did tell me howerver, that when she made her First Communion inBoston, Aunt Ellen Behan from Quebec City attended. Aunt Ellen was very interested in the person who sang during the ceremony, and it turned out to be Eva Fallon. Eva Fallon eventually went on the stage and starred with Bessie McCoy in "Three Twins" in the early 1900's. Katherine went on to say that another actress in that production married Charlie Hart (this appears to be another part of this family story) and that Eva Fallon came to the wedding in Montreal and that Charlie's brother Frank, had a mad crush on her. . . .family trivia. Kate also liked to write stories for children and she told me that she had some accepted by "Youth's Companion Magazine" and they were published. I saw thismagazine mentioned in the mid 1970's and it stated that the Perry Mason Company were the publishers.
The O'Reilly family knew "Aunt Kate" well as she resided in Montreal at the Davis home on Mountain Street. For years she looked after her aunt-by-marriage Gertrude Devlin Davis who was unwell, and also ran thesometimes complicated household. When we visited Aunt Kate there, we always had ginger-ale and the best cookies in what was called the "Breakfast Room".
When the house on Drummond Street was sold, Kate moved to an apartment on her own and started a new life, with new friends and her storiesbecame even more amusing. Eventually she was moved to a nursing home where she died suddenly, but alert to the end, in 1979.




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