MURPHY-DEWAR HOME PAGE

Welcome to our ever growing compilation of ancestors and relatives.

Our particular targets now are the ancestors of Catherine Rich, John Murphy, Anne Storey and John Janes Symonds(see Robert Harold Murphy report below). Also of special interest are Haddads Syria/British Columbia. In the case of Murphy/Storey we would especially like to reestablish contact with descendants of those who migrated from Ireland to the USA in the 19th century.

Finally, be sure to try the Murphy-Dewar GEDCOM which is a related link below.

Note: The precise order in which items appear below is beyond our control.

Family Photos

• James Dewar Family about 1913 (38 KB)
  On a visit to Scotland from Canada, James Dewar, his wife Catherine Chalmers and their two sons William and James Brown Chalmers Dewar. Catherine's brother was at that time a photographer in Bannockburn.
• Cambuskenneth Abbey, Scotland (18 KB)
  Herself in search of her Dewar ancestors.1996.
• William Dewar about 1922 (11 KB)
  US Army Air Corps, Texas
• Kilmore Church, County Armagh, Ireland (24 KB)
  Himself on the track of his Thompson ancestors. 1996.
• William Dewar & Freda Evangeline Haddad (30 KB)
  High in the mountains overlooking Whistler, BC, 1985. At Bill's death in 1993 they had been devoted companions for 65 years.
• Catherine Rich 1871 (32 KB)
  This tinted photo is of Catherine Rich the year of her marriage to John J Symonds, Toronto, Ontario
• Chalmers Wedding Party, The Firs, Bannockburn,1904 (37 KB)
  Left to right. Back: James Dewar holding his 1st son, William; Jame's wife Catherine (Kate) Chalmers; Kate's brother David; David's wife Margaret Gillespie; Kate's father James Brown Chalmers; Kate's mother Catherine Dougal; James Scott and his wife Alice Chalmers (Kate's sister); Kate's sister Helen. Middle: Helen's daughter Kate Stevenson; Kate's sister Bella (bridesmaid); bridegroom Tom Mailer and his bride Mary Chalmers (Kate's sister); best man Nicol Hay. Front Row: Kate's nephew James Chalmers; Helen's son William Stevenson; Helen's husband John Stevenson. Photo by Kate's brother Tom. Picture generously made available by David Roy Chalmers.
• Ann Thompson about 1879 (13 KB)
  Mother of Robert Thompson Murphy, Ireland
• Joshua Holmes (6 KB)
  Joshua Holmes (1814-1882), farmer Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Tintype taken 1870-75?
• Catherine (Kate) Chalmers age 16, about 1897 (26 KB)
  With her father James Brown Chalmers age 60 and her mother Catherine McSwain Dougal age 56, on a visit to the home of the Browns, Falkirk, Scotland
• John Murphy, Victoria, BC, about 1925 (8 KB)
  Native of County Tyrone, Ireland, husband of Ann Thompson, Methodist Lay Preacher, a founder of Victoria's Fairfield United Church.
• Symonds Sisters, Regina, 1889 (33 KB)
  Gertrude (left) and Lucy Hannah. Gertie would live out her life in Saskatchewan, while Lucy would marry George Alfred Bratt Jackson and move to the west coast. The sisters would throughout their lives regularly visit each other.
• John J Symonds 1871 (34 KB)
  Tinted picture of John Symonds (1835-1922) at the time a carpenter in Toronto, Ontario
• Jacksons Arrive at Victoria, BC Canada (39 KB)
  George Alfred Bratt Jackson with daughters Wilma (left) and Norma on July 1st 1912. Having travelled from Toronto to Vancouver by train, the family finished their trip from the mainland to Victoria on the steamship Princess Charlotte. Lucy, the girls' mother, having fallen ill on the trip the family took her directly to a Victoria doctor who diagnosed pneumonia. She recovered after some weeks.
• Joseph Jackson's family, 1895 (16 KB)
  Family of Joseph Jackson and Rhoda Bratt, Regina, Northwest Territories. Viewing left to right. Back row: William Samuel, Laura Alma Blanche, George Alfred Bratt, Ida Alberta Victoria, Harold James Oakley. 2nd Row: Olive Irene, Joseph, Audrey Birkley, Rhoda Jodie, Hannah Eliza (called Nina). Reclining Lloyd. Two other girls were deceased.
• Robert Thompson Murphy - 1918 (11 KB)
  Robert, more commonly called Bert or RT,(centre of picture)a member of 143 Wing RAF, Leaside, Ontario. He would return to Victoria shortly after this and reopen his business, the Murphy Electric Company.
• Robert Starritt Fulton & Rebecca Jane Holmes (37 KB)
  Ancestors of Gloria Catherine Dewar. Photo taken in Nova Scotia about 1875/80. Rebecca died in 1889, but not before copying key Holmes'genealogical data into her husband's Bible -- a Bible still in existence.
• Murphy-Jackson wedding 12 August 1925 (55 KB)
  Norma Jackson (front left)is serene. Bert Murphy (behind her) looks pleased. Bert's brother Gerald seems confused. Norma's sister Wilma wonders how the heck she got talked into this. Location, the Jackson home, Balmoral Road, Victoria BC.
• Joseph Beshara Haddad & Sarah Naomi Fulton (26 KB)
  Wedding day of Joseph and Sarah Naomi, 6 November 1907, Steveston, British Columbia. Wedding took place at residence of Sarah Naomi's brother John.
• The Thompsons, Ireland, before 1926 (30 KB)
  Robert Thompson, his daughter Emily (centre) and his wife Jane. Robert and Jane were grandparents of Robert Thompson Murphy. Picture taken Portadown, County Armagh.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Gloria Catherine Dewar (Amdt Apr 2004)


• Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Robert Harold Murphy (Amdt Apr 2004)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of William JACKSON (Amdt Apr 2004)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Joshua HOLMES (Amdt Apr 2004)

Related Files

• Our Fultons, an essay (20 KB)
  History of our Fultons from Normandy to Scotland, to Ireland, to Nova Scotia, to Western Canada.
• The Pole Railway (10 KB)
  Poem by Robert Starritt Fulton written about a curious but true event in Nova Scotia in 1895.
• History of our BRATTS (36 KB)
  The BRATT family from 17th century England to today's Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia
• The Symonds Family (22 KB)
  Ancestry and some descendants of John Janes Symonds
• Our Dewars (33 KB)
  An essay concerning our branch of the Cambuskenneth Dewars
• Our Chalmers' (17 KB)
  Summary of our branch of the Chalmers family -- Scotland to Canada.
• Our Conquest of North America (29 KB)
  An overview of how our ancestors pioneered both north and south of the 49th parallel from 1610 through 1885.
• Our Murphys (24 KB)
  A brief history
• Our Holmes' (39 KB)
  Summary of our branch of the family Holmes, from John the Messenger of the Plymouth Court (1638) to the Holmes sisters who married into the Fulton family (1864-79).
• OUR JACKSONS (32 KB)
  Brief story of William and Hannah Jackson and their descendants who made their way to the West Coast of Canada and the USA.
• Our Settling of Acadia (7 KB)
  Ancestors who were prominent in the creation of the first English speaking part of Canada.
• Some ships we came on. (15 KB)
  A few of the ships on which our ancestors sailed the Atlantic to reach the New World.

Related Links

• Donna Ristenbatt site: Loyalists, Palatines, New Holland,etc
• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Mayflower
• The Pilgrim Story
• Murphy-Dewar GEDCOM on GenCircles
• Olive Tree: New Amsterdam, Palatine, and other Free info.