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Murphy was the second of three sons born to William and Joyce Murphy, the others being William (eldest) and Lenny Murphy (youngest). Outside his paramilitary career, little is known about him, although Martin Dillon, author of a book on the "Shankill Butchers", wrote that John and William acted as muscle for their younger brother when the latter was engaged in petty crime at school.
A principal suspect in the murders, John Williams (also known as John Murphy), was a 27-year-old Irish or Scottish seaman and a lodger at The Pear Tree, a public house on Cinnamon Street off the Highway in Old Wapping. Williams' roommate had noticed that he had returned after midnight on the night of the tavern murders.
Lord Williams died at Ludlow Castle on 14 October 1559. His body having been returned to Rycote in preparation for a funeral held in Thame Church on 15 November, he was buried in this tomb. John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame (c. 1500 – 14 October 1559) [1] was Master of the Jewels and Lord President of the Council of the Welsh Marches ...
The Shankill Graveyard is one of the oldest cemeteries in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was used for active burials for more than 1,000 years. [1] Since 1958 it has no longer been an active burial site. The oldest standing headstone was erected to the memory of George McAuley who died in 1685.
William Moore (1949 – 17 May 2009) was a Northern Irish loyalist.He was a member of the Shankill Butchers, an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gang. It was Moore who provided the black taxi and butcher knives which the gang used to carry out its killings.
Killing of John Williams may refer to: John Williams (missionary), killed and eaten by cannibals in 1839; John Edwin Ashley Williams, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944; Killing of John T. Williams, by a police officer in 2010
The Williams Baronetcy, of Bodelwyddan in the County of Flint, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 24 July 1798 for John Williams. He had previously served as High Sheriff of Flintshire. Williams was the great-grandson of John Williams, second son of Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (see Williams-Wynn Baronets). The second ...
The following day Winkie Dodds decided he had had enough of Adair's erratic behaviour and he and his wife left the Shankill altogether to set up home in the White City estate near Newtownabbey where John Gregg, by then an enemy of Adair, agreed to place the family under the protection of his South East Antrim Brigade. [31]