William
Le Clair
Murphy
Born in Auckland, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Brother of
James Joseph Murphy, Ernest Murphy, Alfred Bertie Murphy, Arthur Harold Murphy, Ethel May (Murphy) Fraser, Albert Victor Murphy and Frances Mabel Murphy
Husband of
Emily Amelia (Cave) Murphy
— married
11 Feb 1903 in Auckland, New Zealand
Descendants 
Father of
Reginald Le Clair Murphy, Thelma Edna (Murphy) Cox, Ola Mavis Murphy and Raymond Trevor Murphy
Died
at age 69
in Auckland, New Zealand
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Apr 2014
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Biography
William Murphy lived in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
William was born in 1881. He was the son of Edward Murphy and Agnes Sheehan. He passed away in 1951. He is also known as Wiliam Le Clare Murphy
Sue Scarcella: I was told by Uncle Ray Murphy that the family still followed the Irish system of changing names from birth to baptism( to fool the pixies, by all account). When Uncle Ray went to get his birth cert so he could join the army, he couldn't find it. "What name did you look under?" asked his mother. "Raymond Trevor Murphy", he replied. "That's because your name is David Charles Bronterre Murphy," she said. No reason for the names is known, but Le Clair/Le Clare and Bronterre are French. Was there French ancestry amongst the Murphys? We shall never know, as we cannot get beyond Timothy Murphy in the 1780s. And there is the strong possibility that these names could have come from other lines. Was William Sheehan actually William Le Clair Sheehan? Who knows?
He died aged 69 and was buried at Purewa Cemetery, Auckland on 21 April 1951
Sources
- Birth - Births, Deaths & Marriages New Zealand Birth cert 1881/6006
- Death - Births, Deaths & Marriages New Zealand Death cert 1951/21037 aged 69Y
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~3.12%
Peter Orange
:
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Kim (Naylor) Massey :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A544055 [compare]
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~0.78%
Tim Brenan :
AncestryDNA
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