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William Murphy
This entry is about William Murphy (Born about 1918; death not recorded). For other family members with the same first and family name, see William Murphy (Dates not recorded).
Born about 1918; death not recorded
William Murphy was born in New Jersey about 1918, a son of Barbara Brennan by her second marriage, to William Murphy, whom Barbara married in New Jersey in 1916. He was 32 and living in his mother's house at Bayonne in 1950, with his sister Marion and his two Leahey half-siblings. He married a woman whose given name the family notices never printed.
Family story - not yet proved
William Murphy was born in New Jersey about 1918, a son of Barbara Brennan by her second marriage, to William Murphy, whom Barbara married in New Jersey in 1916. He was 32 and living in his mother's house at Bayonne in 1950, with his sister Marion and his two Leahey half-siblings. He married a woman whose given name the family notices never printed.
Born at New Jersey
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s grandparent's sibling
Gina D. Cacace’s spouse's grandparent's sibling (by marriage)
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-grandparent's sibling
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s spouse's parent's sibling (by marriage)
Kevin Leahey’s parent's sibling
Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
How this person is related to Andrew:
William Murphy is your grandparent’s sibling.
Life
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Death and burial
Evidence distinction: [RECORD] means text read from the photographed stone. [COMPILED] means volunteer-typed memorial information and is only a lead.
Find a Grave memorial 99127677
Why this memorial is attached
Matched by exact documented birth date, marriage to James Leahey, and named children John and Margaret. Find a Grave memorial 99127677 (findagrave.com).
10 Jun 1886 | Spouse James Dennis Leahey 1886–1914 | Children John Joseph Leahey 1907–1980; Margaret Leahey 1913–1914
[COMPILED] Volunteer-typed memorial fields
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Name: Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy Birth: 10 Jun 1886 Death: Dec 1961 (aged 75) Cemetery: Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum, North Arlington, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA Plot: Blk-64 Sec-A Gr-718 1A Family links: Spouse: James Dennis Leahey 1886–1914 (m. 1904). Children: Catherine C Leahey Chambers 1905–1970; John Joseph Leahey 1907–1980; George Edward Leahey 1909–1983; James Francis Leahey 1911–1983; Margaret Leahey 1913–1914; Marian Catherine Murphy 1916–1977; William Henry Murphy 1917–1997.
Photograph status: a photographed inscription is available and shown below. Find a Grave memorial 99127677 (findagrave.com).
[RECORD] Photographed inscription, transcribed verbatim
MURPHY 1886 BARBARA 1961 1916 MARIAN C. 1977 1905 CATHERINE LEAHEY CHAMBERS 1970
Citation: Find a Grave memorial 99127677 (findagrave.com); monument photograph credited below.
Family
Parents
Siblings · birth order
- Catherine Leahey
- John Leahey
- George Leahey
- James Francis Leahey
- Margaret Leahey
- Marian C. Murphy
- William Murphy (this person)
- William Leahey
Spouse
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Places listed on this page
- New Jersey
- Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
- North Arlington, Bergen County, New Jersey
- Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, Bergen County, New Jersey Cemetery or burial place
- United States
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Original records
Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy memorial with monument photograph
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What the records say
3 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Barbara Murphy household, 1950 United States census, Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
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Proved by a record
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Barbara Murphy | Head | Widowed | age 62 | born New Jersey | 10 April 1950 | Bayonne, Hudson, New Jersey | Enumeration District 23-102, page 24, line 22 || Catherine Chambers, Daughter, F, 45, New Jersey | William Murphy, Son, M, 32, New Jersey | John Lahey, Son, M, 42, New Jersey | Marion Murphy, Daughter, F, 33, New Jersey || also in the household: Antonette Shotell, F, 49
Record exhibit
New Jersey Marriage Index, Brides, 1915–1919, A–B — Brennan, Barbara
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Proved by a record
Full verbatim transcription — reproduced in full.
Column headings: MAIDEN NAME OF WIFE (last, first) | NAME OF HUSBAND (last, first) | FILE NO. | YEAR OF MARRIAGE. The row reads Brennan, Barbara; Murphy, William; file number 25547; year 16 (1916).
Record exhibit
Find a Grave memorial 99127677 — Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy (1886–1961), Holy Cross Cemetery
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Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
Burial: Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum, North Arlington, Bergen County, New Jersey. Plot: Blk-64 Sec-A Gr-718 1A. Children: Catherine C Leahey Chambers 1905–1970; John Joseph Leahey 1907–1980; George Edward Leahey 1909–1983; James Francis Leahey 1911–1983; Margaret Leahey 1913–1914; Marian Catherine Murphy 1916–1977; William Henry Murphy 1917–1997.
Historical context
These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.
What we still don't know
- [CORRECTED — HE IS HER SON, NOT A SON-IN-LAW] Earlier on 10 August 2026 this archive removed his parent link on the reasoning that he had married into the Leahey family and had been mistaken for a son in a death notice. That was wrong, and the 1950 census says so plainly: he is in Barbara Murphy's household at Bayonne, entered as Son, aged 32. The reasoning failed because it assumed only one marriage. Barbara was widowed in 1914 and married again; William, born about 1918, is a child of that second marriage and a half-brother to the Leahey children. His father was a Murphy and is still unidentified — which is why his surname differs from his half-siblings' and why he looked like an in-law.
- [PRIVACY FLAG CORRECTED] This person was marked as possibly living, which suppressed everything about them. Nothing in their record refers to any year after 1887, so they cannot be alive: even somebody born in that year would be over a hundred and ten now. The flag was a default that had never been revisited, and it was hiding a nineteenth-century person as though they were a contemporary.
- [COMPILED — A SECOND SET OF DATES] Find a Grave's memorial for their mother gives William Henry Murphy, 1917–1997, where this archive carries a birth year inferred from an age in the 1950 census. The two differ by about a year. Both are kept; neither has been preferred, because a compiled memorial and a census age are each capable of being the wrong one.
References
- [1] Barbara Murphy household, 1950 United States census, Bayonne, Hudson County, New JerseyBack to citation 1
- [2] New Jersey Marriage Index, Brides, 1915–1919, A–B — Brennan, BarbaraBack to citation 2
- [3] Find a Grave memorial 99127677 — Barbara Brennan Leahey Murphy (1886–1961), Holy Cross CemeteryBack to citation 3