Garth Ivor Bassett/Murphy

U.E.L. (United Empire Loyalist) descendent

Stepfather Andrew Calhoun Murphy never legally adopted Garth. Nonetheless, after marrying Andrew Murphy, Garth's mother Marcia Kane took it upon herself to assign the Murphy surname to Garth and his sister Nadine. Garth's corrected birth certificate reflects his legal surname as Bassett, his Welsh birth father's surname.

Garth married and divorced three times ... Stella, Susan, and Anna.

His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean out of San Francisco, CA, by daughters Lauren Murphy Siegel and Bettina Murphy Fox, sister Nadine Vasquez, and brother-in-law Carlos Vasquez.

NOTABLE Ancestors:

Maternal:

• Adalbert II, King of Italy (c932-971 AD) ... 29th great-grandfather
• Alfonso VII "el Emperador", King of Castille and León (1105-1157 AD) ... 24th great-grandfather
• Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks", King of England (1239-1307 AD) ... 20th great-grandfather
• Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (1122-1204 AD) ... 23rd great-grandmother
• Fernando III “El Santo”, King of Castile, Spain (1199-1252 AD) [via daughter Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England] … 22nd great-grandfather
• Harald “Fairhair” Halfdansson, I, King of Norway (860-933 AD) … 35th great-grandfather
• Henry III Plantagenet, King of England (1207-1272 AD) ... 21st great-grandfather
• Hereward "The Exile", Thegn of Mercia, England (1035-1072 AD) ... 28th great-grandfather
• John Plantagenet "Lackland", King of England (1166-1216 AD) ... 22nd great-grandfather
• Louis VI Thibaut “Le Gros”, King of France (1081-1137 AD) … 25th great-grandfather
• William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England (1024-1087 AD) ... 26th great-grandfather

1930 U. S. Census: California, Nevada County, Meadow Lake Township, Boca (unincorporated area), enumerated 7 April 1930 by Lotta Bryant … http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=453182... … Murphy, Andrew (head; renter; $10/month; male; white; age 33; age 27 at first marriage [This is a fabrication, because Marcia only filed for a divorce from 1st spouse Ivor in 1927.]; able to read & write; born California; father & mother born California; speaks English; Signal Maintainance for Steam railroad; not a military veteran), Marcia (wife; female; white; age 28; married; age 21 at first marriage; can read & write; born Canada; father born Canada; mother born New Zealand; not naturalized; speaks English; no occupation), Garth (son; male; white; age 7; single; born Oregon; father born California; mother born Canada), and Nadine (daughter; female; white; age 5; single; born Washington; father born California; mother born Canada). ... The birth place of Garth and Nadine’s “father” is cited incorrectly, because their birth father Ivor Bassett was born in Wales and they never were formally adopted by Andrew Murphy, who was born in California.

1940 U.S. Census: California, Sacramento County, Sacramento, enumerated on 8 April 1940 by Mildred I. Green … http://interactive.ancestry.com/2442/m-t0627-00283-00100/69497149?b... … Marcia (head, age 38, married), Garth (son, age 17, single), and Nadine (daughter, age 15, single) Murphy are residing in a rented house at 3328 Second Avenue. Andrew Murphy is not listed here.

Was a member of Phi Kappa Tau social fraternity while an undergraduate student at the University of California at Berkeley.

The National Archives...[Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946 (Enlistment Records), Box #1242, Film Reel #6.8##] http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=all... A resident of Alameda County, California, married, and with four years of college, Garth enlisted (after being drafted) at Jefferson Barracks Military Post, Lemay, Missouri, on June 13, 1944, at the rank of Private and was assigned U.S. Army serial number 37641799. His enlistment was "for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law."

The National Archives...Questionnaire Response: [1954 National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel, 1954 - 1954 (American Institute of Biological Sciences)] http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=2152&mtch=1&cat=al...

Expert in oceanic fisheries; B.S. in Icthyology (1942) and M.S. in Zoology (1946) from U.C.@Berkeley, Ph.D. in Oceanography (1965) from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.C.@San Diego; Ph.D Dissertation/Thesis title: "Population Dynamics of the Pacific Sardine (Sardinops caerulea)"

OBITUARY: [Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2001] http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/09/local/me-61322 Garth I. Murphy; Ichthyologist Helped Protect Fish Species Garth Ivor Murphy, 78, Scripps Institution of Oceanography ichthyologist who obtained early moratoriums on the commercial fishing of Pacific sardines and mackerel, died Saturday in Woodland, Calif., near Sacramento, of heart failure. Murphy studied the mysterious decline of sardines and other species after joining Scripps in 1959 as its first full-time coordinator of California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations. His discoveries and insistence on controls to prevent overfishing revolutionized fisheries management to consider environmental factors and harvest levels. After earning degrees from UC Berkeley, Murphy became the first person to earn a doctorate from Scripps in 1965. He joined the La Jolla-based institute after serving in France during World War II and working for the California Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife office. Murphy later taught oceanography at the University of Hawaii and worked in fisheries research for Australia and Japan.

OBITUARY: [honoluluadvertiser.com, Thursday, May 10, 2001] http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/May/10/ln/ln43aobitu... DR. GARTH IVOR MURPHY, 78, of Woodland, Calif., formerly of Honolulu, died May 5, 2001. Born in Portland, Ore. A scientist with Scripps Institute of Oceanography and professor and chair of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawai'i who did pioneering research in Pacific fisheries population dynamics. Survived by sister, Nadine Vasquez; children, Suzan Wilson, Hanalei Murphy [This "person" does NOT exist; Hanalei is a city in Hawaii.], Garth Murphy, Jan Burns, Eric Murphy, Byron Bay [Byron Bay is the name of a place in Australia--NOT a child of Garth.], Lauren Siegel and Mettina [This name should be Bettina.] Murphy; nine grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; lifelong friend, John Caperon. No local service. [ERRORS and OMISSION in survivors listing! Omits daughter Judith, the oldest of his three children by 2nd wife Susan Wright.]

OBITUARY: [The Scripps Log, June 8 - June 15, 2001, vol. 38, no. 23, by Betty Shor] Murphy, Garth Ivor (1922-2001) Ph.D. 1965, Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San Diego) The San Diego Union Tribune noted last month that Garth I. Murphy died on May 5, at age 79. A Ph.D. alumnus of SIO in 1965, Murphy was the first to be appointed CalCOFI Coordinator, from 1959 to 1965 (CalCOFI began in 1948). He helped to establish fisheries restrictions on the then-declining sardines. After completing his Ph.D., Murphy was a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii, was a consultant to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, and in 1974 became a research scientist in fisheries in Australia with CSIRO. He retired in the early 1990s and was in a nursing home in Woodland, California, (near Davis) when he died.

IN MEMORIAM: [CalCOFI Rep./California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports, Vol. 42, 2001, by Paul E. Smith] http://calcofi.org/publications/ccreports/97-vol42-2001.html The founding CalCOFI coordinator, Professor Garth I. Murphy, died on 5 May 2001 in Woodland, California, at the age of 78. Before becoming coordinator in 1959, Garth was the director of the Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations in Hawaii. After serving as coordinator until 1965, Garth was appointed professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii. His principal contribution to CalCOFI and population dynamics was the thorough documentation of the fisheries on the sardine Savdinops sagax and interpretations of the causes for its decline along the west coast of North America. Two principal works followed this: a population projection of the recovery of the sardine, and the description of the function of multiple year-classes in the evolution of this and similar populations. Murphy became interested in sardine at a three-day crisis meeting of 36 physical and biological oceanographers: the Rancho Santa Fe Symposium in June of 1958. In a question-and-answer session regarding how El Nino warming of the Pacific affected the sardine, Garth Murphy asked John Radovich, “What is the typical number of year-classes in a spawning [sardine] population?” Radovich said, “Predominantly three.” Three decades before, the answer would have been “ten.” This question marked the end of Murphy’s 15-year career as biological technician and government administrator, and began his professional career as a graduate student in oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. During his term as coordinator and as editor of CalCOFI Reports he transformed the publication from a gray literature of agency reports into an edited journal of original scientific contributions. Over the next five years he studied the Pacific sardine population and fishery with the help of mentors E. W. Fager, D. G. Chapman, M. Lloyd, and M. B. Schaefer. During his tenure at the University of Hawaii, Murphy captured the practical significance of the longevity of sardine and founded a field of theoretical population biology concerned with the evolution of life history in variable environments. Theoretical ecologist Lamont Cole had found that a single reproductive period was essentially as useful to population maintenance as multiple reproductive periods. Murphy questioned Cole’s view by using the history of the sardine population. He reasoned that sardines evolved repetitive reproduction and extended lifetimes after first maturity in response to environmental variations. He believed that the joint influence of the fishery and the environment had affected the sardine by decreasing the number of reproducing year-classes from ten to three, thus making the sardine population sensitive to interannual, environmentally caused reproductive failure. His rationale that preserving iteroparity, or multiple spawning, in a population protected it from collapse during short environmental events like El Nino aroused the wrath of the Peruvian government (which declared him persona non grata) when he blamed the collapse of the Peruvian anchoveta on overfishing by demographic truncation. He expressed these views during a United Nations Food and Agriculture mission study, to counter the accepted view that placed sole blame for the collapse of the anchoveta, the world’s largest fishery, on the 1972 El Nino. Garth Murphy’s achievements in population biology have contributed to the CalCOFI time history; to the Pacific sardine, which recovered in the manner he predicted; to the practice of generalized population management under combined environmental and fishing pressure; and to theoretical population ecology. Biological and fisheries oceanography has lost one of its earliest practitioners.