We hope the luck of the Irish is with you!
Thanks to all our ancestry work, we can celebrate our Irish heritage! On Candice's maternal grandmother's side, there are strong Irish roots. The Murphree family (Irish enough, huh?) came over in the early to mid 1700s from Dublin, Ireland. Daniel Murphree and his wife Sarah Dempsey Muphree left Ireland sometime after their marriage and salting a family. They died in Chatham, North Carolina. Below is the legend of the Murphrees arriving in the Americas.
LEGENDARY BEGINNING
One well-known legend traces the roots of the family tree to the household of Daniel and Sarah Dempsey (Rowland ?) in the 18th century Ireland. According to this tradidion, there was a rebellion in Ireland in the 1740's against British rule. Among those taking part in the uprising were seven sons of Daniel Murphry. When the rebels were suppressed, the Murphy boys fled from the British and found a sympathetic ship-captain who agreed to furnish them with passage to America. As the story goes, Daniel Murphy had all his property confiscated by the authorities even though he had not himself taken part in the uprising. Afterward it is said that he lived a wretched existence in a sod hut until his death in 1762 at over 80 years of age. Had seven sons, William, Nimrod, David, Solomon, Daniel, Mills and James. The came to America sometime between 1745 and 1755 and found a refuge from the British. The change in the spelling of their surname is said by some to have been to conceal their identity but others suggest that the use of "free" instead of "phy" in the name was in commemoration of their new-found freedom.
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