JOHN MURPHY DESCENDANTS:
From Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
John Murphy Descendants from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, is a recording of American history disguised as the John Murphy family ancestry. Packed with stories reaching from the eastern shore to the western shore, John Murphy Descendants leads the reader from the emigration from Omagh, County Tyrone in Ulster to intersect with d’Armonds, Feslers, Skinners, Putnams, Thomases, and Waldos. A look back through the family tree uncovers some very interesting and well-known family members.
Many family stories tell the hardships of pioneering in new territories following Indian treaties. Personal narratives tell of fighting Indian, and the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, of traveling by ox-drawn wagon, leaving family and friends, and enduring locust invasion, flood and fire. A medical missionary tells of entertaining Mahatma Gandhi in India. A connection to United States President John Adams is noted. John Murphy Descendants from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, reads like a good novel. The curse of “dry history” does not touch this book.
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Media Kit
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Preface
Heraldry
Chapter 1 John Murphy
Chapter 2 Howard Murphy
Chapter 3 Henry d’Armond
Chapter 4 John Fesler
Chapter 5 Thomas Skinner
Chapter 6 Waldo and Adams
Chapter 7 Nicholas Putnam
Chapter 8 Thomas Thomas
Chapter 9 Madge Murphy
About the author
Passionate amateur genealogists abound. What sets Augustus O. “Bud” Thomas II and his research apart from many is that his books are also American History. His career began after his Aunt questioned the lack of interest in the Thomas immigrant to Pennsylvania. Bud went on to write about the Thomas family line. His most recent adventure traces the steps of the Murphy line. John Murphy Descendants, like its predecessor Thomas Thomas Descendants, is filled with stories of the building of America. Reading his books is like reading well-written American history.
Bud began tracing his family after retiring from electrical engineering in 1989. He and his wife followed the first Thomas immigrant to Coal Center, Pennsylvania from Wales, and thence followed over a dozen related surnames from Maine, west to Colorado, settling the States by horseback, covered wagon, and railroad.
In the course of investigation, Bud and his wife Gloria have traveled to courthouses, churches, and cemeteries, and pubs, of 22 states, England, Wales, Scotland, and Germany in pursuit of their roots.
