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Looking for any information on my 2 x g grandfather from Ireland who moved to Derbyshire .John Murphy b 24 May 1819 in Dublin, Ireland, was apprenticed to Mr John Vallance of Derbyshire, at the suggestion of Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde, a family friend and a woman whose patronage caused John to move to England to learn his trade. I have found Johns' obituary listing his father as a soldier and detailing young Johns' apprenticeship to the trade, where he became a marble mason with his own business in Madron / Penzance, Cornwall, after being the foreman of the Penzance Serpentine Co. in 1850s. He then had his own business and lived in Market Jew St, Penzance. I am interested in his life in Cornwall, he married Elizabeth Bryan, daughter of Benjamin Bryan and Mary Bown, (the family had some of the  show caverns, Coalpit Rake/Devonshire Cavern,)  in Matlock Bath in 1841 in Matlock Bath and had 11 children. They moved to Penzance in 1850,  I am also keen to know more about his family, he had 7 brothers and one sister who eventually came to England also, from Ireland. John was also an inventor who mastered a method to arrest the decay of stone, he and one other rival were selected eventually to conduct further trials about this process, but John died before he found out the results of his discovery. Any information on this family would be most appreciated.

John Murphy b 24 May 1819 in Dublin, Ireland, son of George and Mary (to be confirmed) was apprenticed to Mr John Vallance of Derbyshire, at the suggestion of Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde, a family friend and a woman whose patronage caused John to move to England to learn his trade. I have found Johns' obituary listing his father as a soldier and detailing young Johns' apprenticeship to the trade, where he became a marble mason with his own business in Madron / Penzance, Cornwall, after being the foreman of the Penzance Serpentine Co. in 1850s. He then had his own business and lived in Market Jew St, Penzance. I am interested in his life in Cornwall, he married Elizabeth Bryan, daughter of Benjamin Bryan and Mary Bown, (the family had some of the  show caverns, Coalpit Rake/Devonshire Cavern,)  in Matlock Bath in 1841 in Matlock Bath and had 11 children. They moved to Penzance in 1850,  I am also keen to know more about his family, he had 7 brothers and one sister who eventually came to England also, from Ireland. John was also an inventor who mastered a method to arrest the decay of stone, he and one other rival were selected eventually to conduct further trials about this process, but John died before he found out the results of his discovery. Any information on this family would be most appreciated.

I am trying to find out more about my g great grandfather John Murphy b abt 1819 Dublin Ireland and came to Matlock Bath when 22yrs and married Elizabeth Bryan who was the  daughter of the "Cavern" Bryans, (Devonshire Cavern) Benjamin(1799-1860), also a journalist and writer,  and his wife Mary Bown1793-1838. It appears John Murphy  was a marble mason and later went to work with Serpentine at Penzance , eventually having his own shop and employees there. But we have found out that his father , also John Murphy,b abt. 1800 in Ireland, may have come to Matlock area from Ireland as well, as he is listed as a Petrifactioner, which seems to be peculiar to the area. Does anyone know about him or his family? Great to get any leads on this.

Our Ancestor Charles Morrissey, b abt 1830 Ballymakea, Co Clare in Ireland , emigrated to America but sadly died in the Civil War while fighting for the Union. His family of 2 brothers and their children came instead to Australia and heard eventually that he had been killed , apparently at Gettysburg. He is said to have left a wife and children in Baltimore, whether he married in Ireland and took them with him or married in Baltimore we don't know.
His parents are Timothy Morrissey b.1793  d. 1868 and mother Catherine Killeen b 1792 and d. 1871, They were also natives of Co Clare and farmed there. Charles had two brothers that we know of , Thomas b 1828 d. 1916 and Patrick b 1834 d. 1905 in Grafton district, New South Wales,Australia.
We would love to hear from anyone researching this family, we particularly want to track down Charles' wife and children, we don't know what became of them. We know only that they lived in Baltimore. Any information appreciated, including service in the Civil War. Anne