Marcia Valdene Kane Bassett, Murphy

U.E.L. (United Empire Loyalist) descendant via her father's mother

NOTABLE Ancestors:

Paternal:

• Adalbert II, King of Italy (c932-971 AD) ... 28th great-grandfather
• Alfonso VII "el Emperador", King of Castille and León (1105-1157 AD) ... 23rd great-grandfather
• Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks", King of England (1239-1307 AD) ... 19th great-grandfather
• Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (1122-1204 AD) ... 22nd great-grandmother
• Fernando III “El Santo”, King of Castile, Spain (1199-1252 AD) … 21st great-grandfather
• Harald “Fairhair” Halfdansson, I, King of Norway (860-933 AD) … 34th great-grandfather
• Henry III Plantagenet, King of England (1207-1272 AD) ... 20th great-grandfather
• Hereward "The Exile", Thegn of Mercia, England (1035-1072 AD) ... 27th great-grandfather
• John Plantagenet "Lackland", King of England (1166-1216 AD) ... 21st great-grandfather
• Louis VI Thibaut “Le Gros”, King of France (1081-1137 AD) … 24th great-grandfather
• William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England (1024-1087 AD) ... 25th great-grandfather

1911 Canada Census: British Columbia / Kootenay / 26 Kaslo / page 7 http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/View.jsp?id=59178&highli... Living in Kaslo, B.C., David "Brown"(?) Kane [b. February 1871 (40)] with wife May Elizabeth [b. February 1878 (33)] and daughters Mona "Mary" [b. September 1895 (15)], Mavis [b. August 1897 (13)], and Marcia [b. September 1901 (9)].

Played the violin as a young woman with her two sisters on violin and cello and her mother on piano for Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada, events.

Vancouver Daily World [Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 27 May 1922, Saturday; page 2, column ] ... https://www.newspapers.com/image/64714974/?terms=Ivor%2BBassett ... MAKE NO EFFORT TO CONCEAL THEIR LOVE, May 27 ... Love prevails. This was the verdict that Miss Marcia V. Kane, 20-year-old school teacher and Ivor Bassett, also a school teacher, gave for their sudden departure from Revelstoke, B.C. They made no effort to deny their love today while being held for the B.C. police. Miss Kane will be deported to British Columbia, while Bassett is held on a charge of wife desertion and using the school's money for private purposes. Miss Kane admits that she knew that Bassett was married but that she would marry him if his wife would divorce him. Bassett said he met Miss Kane when both started to teach at the same school. The charge against him is of "having used money raised by the school to buy a motion picture machine for his own benefit."

Temple Daily Telegram [Temple, Texas; 15 June 1922, Thursday; volume 15, number 179, edition 1, page 5, columns 4 &5; with photograph of Marcia's head entitled "Miss Marcia Kane" ] ... http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth468572/m1/5/zoom/ ... PRISON BARS FAIL TO DAMPEN LOVE OF TEACHER FOR MARRIED PRINCIPAL ... "I am willing to pay the price of our love." Thus spoke Marcia Kane, twenty-one, pretty Canadian school teacher, between the bars of a San Francisco jail. Her sweetheart is facing larceny charges. He's in the same jail. She and Ivor Bassett, thirty-three, were teachers in a little school in Revelstoke, B.C., Canada. When they eloped, Bassett is alleged to have left his wife penniless.

See a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, article with the same photograph used in the Temple, Texas, article in her Media/Documents section as well as a San Francisco, California, article advising that Marcia's father was en route to collect her and revealing that Marcia had used the alias "Sheila Paget" (the name of her own small niece/older daughter of her oldest sister Mona Kane Paget) plus an Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) article. Marcia was almost 3 months pregnant with their son Garth at the time of the elopement.

Photograph of original Marriage Certificate for Ivor Bassett and Marcia Valdene Kane … http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=2378&iid=929032... … No. 5589; State of Washington, County of Lewis, Chehalis; Justice of the Peace P. C. Beaufort; 14 September 1923; Ivor Bassett of Grays Harbor County, Washington, and Marcia Valdene Kane of Multnomah County, Oregon; Witnesses: Mrs. Clara E. Kane and Charles Kane [Marcia's aunt and uncle]

Marriage certificate to Ivor Bassett: "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLNM-MZY : accessed 31 Oct 2014), Ivor Bassett and Marcia Valdene Kane, 14 Sep 1923; citing State Archives, Olympia; FHL microfilm 4135594. See a photograph of their original marriage certificate in their respective "Media/Documents" sections or here: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-674-11237-279-43?cc=1534448

Reno Evening Gazette [Reno, Nevada; Saturday, 9 July 1927] ... SUITS FILED ... Marcia V. Bassett vs Ivor Bassett (no other information)

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 natural 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.

"California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VP29-ZK9 : accessed 01 Mar 2014), Marcia V Murphy, 1975. ... Name: Marcia V Murphy; Event Type: Death; Event Date: 29 Jan 1975; Event Place: Sacramento, California, United States; Birth Date: 22 Aug 1901; Birthplace: Canada; Gender: Female

Buried beside her husband at the time of her death, Andrew Calhoun Murphy, who followed her in death.