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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #18 on: Friday 26 October 18 12:53 BST (UK) »
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mwy/   GETS ALL Civil Reg  Marriage results for John Morrisey from 1880 to 1910

Don't see any marrying an Ann(e)
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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #19 on: Friday 26 October 18 13:28 BST (UK) »
They may have married in NY.
If I recall the census records indicate immigration and marriage about 1887.
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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #20 on: Friday 26 October 18 13:43 BST (UK) »
1905
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK9D-9GW

A later census shows four children born and three alive so presumably baby Ann is the death.

The children’s ages don’t match though.
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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #21 on: Friday 26 October 18 13:48 BST (UK) »


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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #22 on: Friday 26 October 18 14:26 BST (UK) »
This looks like the birth record for Betty's husband James - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W4F-V75

A Veterans' Administration record said he was in the Army from 6 Feb. 1943 to 25 Dec. 1945.

It looks like he died in Florida in 1982 - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVDS-KD4

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPWB-TX9

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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #23 on: Friday 26 October 18 14:49 BST (UK) »
This looks like the birth record for Betty's husband James - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W4F-V75

A Veterans' Administration record said he was in the Army from 6 Feb. 1943 to 25 Dec. 1945.

It looks like he died in Florida in 1982 - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVDS-KD4

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPWB-TX9

The Palm Beach Post
West Palm Beach, Florida
Friday, February 19, 1982 - Page 47

Obit: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24855006/james_a_murray__obit/

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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #24 on: Friday 26 October 18 17:50 BST (UK) »
This obituary for Betty said that her movie career ended with her marriage in 1928, so that fits with the above record - http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201944%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201944%20Grayscale%20-%201769.pdf

This article says that Betty was used by Chaplin because he was "married to Betty's chum, Lita Grey."  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mx1/

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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 27 October 18 00:26 BST (UK) »
Yes that’s her! Yay! I know Reilly to be a family name! Thank you soooooo much

This is a possible California death record for Anne Morrissey, listing her parents as John Armstrong & Elizabeth Reilly - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGF5-SCSG
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Re: Betty Morrissey Movie Star!
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 30 October 18 12:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,

Thanks for all the help... managed to solve a few blocks for me!

I wonder if anyone could tell me how to get hold of a copy of her death certificate? I know she died in Manhattan on 20 April 1944. Heres the record info from Ancestry.. I don't think her age was right.. everything else I have says she was 42... but still so young.. I am wondering what killed her.

Name:   Elizabeth Murray
Age:   36
Birth Year:   abt 1908
Death Date:   20 Apr 1944
Death Place:   Manhattan, New York, USA
Certificate Number:   9592