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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cork => Topic started by: Kiskeam on Thursday 26 May 05 08:48 BST (UK)
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My paternal grandfather Maurice Keppel was baptised on 20 December 1855 in St Mary's Catholic Church in Newmarket. His parents were John and Catherine nee Riordan. Maurice emigrated to New Zealand in 1878 and his sister Julia and her husband James Halpin emigrated to New Zealand in 1877 with two children.
In 1882 Maurice married Annie O'Callaghan from Kiskeam. Annie was born in 1860 and her parents were Cornelius and Julia nee Connor.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has information about the Keppel family.
Regards from Kiskeam in New Zealand.
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any relation to a LAWRENCE JACKSON HALPIN b 1834
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I think the Keppel family is connected to the british royal family by marriage. Also one of the Millionaire winners was a Judith Keppel.
(...begging letters at the ready...)
Good luck
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Would JAMES HALPIN have been a ne[phew to LAURENCE JACKSON HALPIN
CHEERS FROM NEW ZEALAND
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Hi Barbs
Todate I have little information about James Halpin. I believe he was born in Newmarket County Cork in 1846. He married Julia in Kanturk County Cork on 12 November 1870. I await a copy of that marriage certificate from the Office of the Registrar General, Roscommon, Ireland. I understand the turn round from the Office is about six months so I might be waiting until February 2006. I shall come back to you if the certificate of marriage reveals details of parents, or I trace James death details and obtain a death certificate
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Hi Mikehicks
The British Royal Family connection is to the Dutch family of Van Keppel which can be traced back to Wolten Van Keppel who was born in 1179. In 1670 Arnold Joot Van Keppel was born and King William 111 created the earldom of Albemamarle for him in 1697. The present day Royal connection traces back to Alice Edmonstone who married the Hon. George Keppel who was the third son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle, whose family had many British Naval connections. Whilst that Keppel family's history is well documented the Irish families are not, so the search goes on, somebody somewhere must have the information. I live in hope!!
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Today I received a copy of the marriage certificate from www.groireland for Julia Keppel/le and James Halpin. I am posting the information from that certificate in the hope that it may help in my search for information about the Keppel/le and Halpin families.
Julia and James were single when they were married at the Catholic Chapel in Meelin on 14 November 1869 by the Reverend Father C O Connell. The witnesses were John Keppel and Cora Halpin. James occupation was cooper.
Julia was living in Tooreenacopogue and James in Meelin. Julia's father was John Kepple a farmer and James's father was Denis Halpin a farmer.
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Hi there.
I have been trying to research my family history for some time now and have found that I am not very good at it but I just stubbled on this and it gives me hope.
Maurice and Annie Keppel are my great great grandparents. Their daughter Catherine married Martin Harrington who had a son, Maurice William Harrington who was my grandfather.
Any information you could give me or if you could point me in the right direction I would be most greatful.
Tina (Auckland)
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P.s I know Annie and Maurice are buried in Manaia along with a few of their children. They had a nuber of children but from what i could tell they out lived many of them both dying at the grand age of 80.
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Hi Tina
I was very pleased your discovery of the posting I made over five years ago.
Since I posted it in May 2005 I have made considerable progress in accumulating information about the family of my paternal grand parents.
As there is much information I have available which maybe of assistance to you with your quest I suggest we make contact through the personal message (PM) link and then by telephone as we are both living in New Zealand.
I have sent you a PM to establish the direct link between us.
Once again many thanks for making the initial contact via this excellent Forum for researching ancestors.
Regards
Kiskeam
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Hi Keppel families,
I have a reference to my x4 grandfather John Conolly in which I'm told he married Eliza Collins in March 1817 in England. Eliza was the d/o the then recently deceased Sir John Collins who was himself (so it reads) the illegitimate son of the second Earl of Albemarle. I'm struggling to validate this last connection, did the second Earl really have an illegitimate son as well as the 15 children he had with Anne Lennox? And if so is there some way I can have a degree of certainty that this particular Sir John Collins was one of them?
my first post here, fingers across.
Brett, NZ
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Hi Brett.
Welcome to RootsChat and best wishes with your research.
Sorry I am unable to assist you with your quest as to date my research over the past decade has not discovered a link between the family you are researching and my family.
My research takes me back to c1800 in County Cork. The earliest confirmed record for my family dates from the Baptismal record in December 1835 of the oldest known sibling of my great grand father Maurice.
I have not discovered any earlier records for the family. Therefore I do not know if there is a link with the descendants of Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle.
You may have some success with your quest by posting your message on the forum for England.
Best wishes with your research.
Kiskeam.
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Joseph Keppel . No : 18595
1st Battlion RIF
Born and resided in skibbereen co cork,
Son of naicholas Keppel of Banteer co cork.Enlisted in Kinsale
Died of wounds in the western front 25 june 1918 age 19
yrs.
Buried in Chocques cemtrey france.
grave ref 111.A.31
Ref book Great scarifice ED gerry white and brendan o shea
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http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/166609/KEPPEL,%20JOSEPH
Will
http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/reels/sw/1918_22/KeppelJ_E638595.pdf
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Hi cork_lrel and dathai
Thank you for your postings re Joseph Keppel. To date I have no information that links him to my family. I shall investigate further.
Regards Kiskeam
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Hi,
it would seem I'm "too new" here to PM, thanks anyway, maybe we can connect again sometime in the near future,
Cheers,
Brett
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Hi Brett,
If you just do one other post you can then do a PM
Just a word or two will do
Mary
Celtic Liberty
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Hi Mary, thanks for that, still learning the protocols here.
Cheers,
Brett
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Hi Brett
Thank you for your response. I look forward to hearing.
You will find contributors to this forum are most helpful and willing to assist, and Mary's posting is a good example.
Kiskeam