Miss Catherine “Kate” Murphy from Aghnacliffe, Co Longford, Ireland, was born on 13 September 1893, one of thirteen children born to Michael Murphy and Mary Lyons. She and her siblings were baptised in the Parish of Dromand. Catherine’s mother was often sick, and her father had died when they were young, so their oldest brother was head of the family. He was very overbearing and gave the girls little freedom. Catherine, and her elder sister Margaret Jane had two sisters and a brother already living in America and they wished to go and join them but their brother would not agree. Their neighbours bought third class tickets for themselves on the Titanic, and then secretly bought tickets for Kate and Margaret as well. When the neighbours left for Queenstown Kate and Margaret came with them, pretending that they were planning just to see them off on their journey to America. The sisters boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as third class passengersand they shared cabin 161 on E-deck with Kate Gilnagh and Kate Mullen. Later they would talk about how being on the Titanic was one of the greatest things that they had ever been able to do. They remembered having particularly enjoyed parties in the third class public rooms. After their arrival in New York they were sent to St. Vincent’s Hospital for recuperation. Their American siblings came to collect them and broke the sad news that their neighbours, the Kiernans, had died on the ship, as well as James Farrell, the man who had saved them. After the disaster Kate married a man named Guilfoyle and had three children: Marie, Michael and Rita. Unlike her sister, she never liked to discuss the Titanic. She died in 1968.