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Subject: Re: [MURPHY-ROOTS] Re: MURPHY progenitor
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:45:52 EST

Dear Charlie,

Cromwell was in the 17th century. He drove many of the Catholics to the west
coast of Ireland where the soil was rocky and poor and this indirectly led to
the Famine. The potato was one of the few things they could grow. Most were
sent to Connaught but my family was sent to Clare from Tiperarry. This is
probably what the person who talked about Cromwell was referring to because
the date is too early for your ancestor.

I don't know if Methodism ever took hold in Ireland, but it was founded by
John Wesley in England in the 18th Century. Most Irish Protestants who were
not Church of England were Presbyterians, who were sent by the English from
Scotland to Northern Ireland. They became known as Scotch-Irish and
emigrated to the US in great numbers.

It sounds strange for someone with an Irish Catholic name, but I had a Murphy
ancestor who came from Northern Ireland and was Presbyterian. Kentucky would
have been a place your ancestor might have gone if he were Protestant, for
the Scotch Irish immigrants usually settled in hilly, wooded areas.

Good luck,

Nancy

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