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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow, etc., Continued
« on: Wednesday 20 February 13 17:42 GMT (UK)  »
Who was Oliver Halpin?

From our previous posts, Oliver Halpin was an Army surgeon. More recent research has revealed the following.

From his death (of which more later) he was born in 1776.

He qualified as a doctor, M.D. of the University of Edinburgh in 1802 [Edinburgh Advertiser for 1802: "University of Edinburgh: Yesterday the University conferred the degree of Doctor in Medicine on the following Gentlemen, after the usual public and private trials: . . .  From Ireland  Oliver Halpin, Dissertationes Inaugurales - Febre Intermittente"].

From his own account in "Returns of Officers Services" of 1828 in the National Archives [WO 25/761/31] he was Assistant Surgeon of the 44th Regiment of Foot from 25 September 1803, 'without purchase'; Surgeon of the Royal Corsican Rangers from 11 April 1812 (without purchase); Surgeon of the 44th Regiment of Foot from 29 April 1813 (without purchase), on half pay by reduction 23 March 1816; Surgeon of the 76th Regiment of Foot from 20 November 1816 (without purchase); Surgeon of the 9th Royal Veteran Battalion from 12 April 1821 on half pay "from ill health". "To remain on half pay". He had served 16 years, 10 months and 15 days on full pay and 8 years, 5 months and 4 days on half pay at the time the return was made (1828).
He states he was married in Dublin on 31 July 1828 and in Ostende on 20 December 1828 (see below). He was living "generally in Ostende but lately for some months in England and Ireland" in 1828.

Army Lists and Gazettes confirm his service and his retirement on half pay was gazetted in the Edinburgh Gazette of 19 April 1821. His service was generally with the 2nd Battalion, 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot, formed in 1803 and serving in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. The 2nd Battalion fought at the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro (1811), the Siege of Badajoz (1812) and the Battle of Salamanca (1812) when the Battalion captured the French Imperial Eagle of the French 62nd Regiment. Between April 1812 and April 1813, Oliver Halpin served with the Royal Corsican Rangers, probably in the Ionian Islands. Back with the 2nd Battalion of the 44th, he was at the Battle of Quatre Bras (1815), and the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and was awarded the Waterloo Medal. The battalion was disbanded in 1816 at the conclusion of the wars. Oliver Halpin then was Surgeon to the 76th Regiment of Foot between November 1816 and April 1821. I believe the 76th Foot were part of the Garrison in Canada during that time. He would have been invalided on half pay into the 9th Royal Veteran Battalion on 12 April 1821.

Dublin records show the marriage of Oliver Halpin to Theresa Van Loo, both of the Parish of St George, on 31 July 1828. Oliver would have been 51 when married.

Papers in the National Archives [WO 42/20 H44] show Oliver Halpin died on 21 June 1838 in Ostend (buried 25 June 1838, Ostend). The papers are in support of an application for a pension from Mary Theresa Halpin of Quai Street, Ostend, married St George's Church, Dublin on 31 July 1828, to Oliver Halpin, Esq., M.D., late Surgeon 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, died at Ostend 21 June 1838 aged 61. A certificate of marriage from Dublin and certificates of death and burial from Ostende are included. A final certified paper, in Flemish with an attached translation from the British Consulate in Ostend, states that "Oliver Halpin, aged 61 years, 6 months and 29 days, born in Dublin England (sic), residing in Ostende, a Doctor, Husband of Maria Theresa Van Loo residing in this place, son of Patrick and of Eleanor Lambert both deceased at Dublin, died yesterday at 9 PM at his residence 68 Quay Street".

Thus Oliver Halpin was born in 1776 in Dublin, son of Patrick Halpin and Eleanor Lambert. This would suggest (see my Post on Paget Halpin) that he is the son of the engraver Patrick Halpin "and his wife Eleanor" and thus closely related to Paget Halpin (?his uncle) and the younger brother of John Edmund Halpin, the miniature painter and actor.






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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow, etc., Continued
« on: Wednesday 20 February 13 17:34 GMT (UK)  »
On Paget Halpen / Halpin

Kenneth Cooke summarised information on Paget Halpen very well on 2 March 2010.

Following my delving into Army Lists etc. for William Halpin, I would add the
following (with, apologies, some repetition of Kenneth Cooke's information):

"A Handlist of Voters of Maryborough, 1760." shows a Pagett Halpen "in the Army"; as a voter he presumably was a freeholder.

1760 Army List: 92nd Regiment of Foot Paget Halpen, Ensign 25 Jan. 1760 [92nd Foot, the Donegal Light Infantry, was formed in 1760 by Lieut-Col. Commanding Sir Ralph Gore Bt (later General, the 1st Earl of Ross, onetime CinC Ireland), announced in the London Magazine and the Scots Magazine of February 1760].

Appointment as an Ensign would suggest Paget was about 16 - 18 in 1760, making him born possibly between 1742 and 1744.

1762 Army List:  Ensign Paget Halpen crossed out on 92nd Foot; Paget Halpen, Lieutenant, 124th Regiment of Foot (Cunninghame's) 13 Feb. 1762 [Regiment formed by Lt-Col Robert Cunninghame [later General, Adjutant General of Ireland 1772, Irish CinC 1795] Regiment disbanded in 1763 [1763, Treaty of Paris, peace after 7 years' war with France, Spain etc.]. The 1770 Army List shows the whole 124th Regiment (Officers) on Irish Half Pay list, Lieutenants included Paget Halpen. Irish Half Pay for a Lieutenant was about £41 per annum (same as English). Paget Halpen remains on Army Lists 124th Regiment, Irish Half Pay from 1770, through  1798, 1799, 1803, 1805,1810 to 1818 (not in 1819 list), so he continued to receive Half Pay for some 55 years!

Paget Halpin, Esq. of Maryboro', Queen's County, married Margaret Delane of St James, Dublin on 7 May 1794 in Dublin [Perogative Marriage License]. Although from the possible date of birth above Paget Halpin would have been about 51 at this marriage, there is no doubt this is the same man since his widow applies for an Army pension in 1818 (see below).

In 1807 Paget Halpin of Maryborough, Queen's County received £43-9-9d for damages he sustained by a new road [Accounts presented to the House of Commons of the Presentments passed by the Grand Jury of Ireland, at the Summer Assizes].

From the Eleventh Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the fees etc ... in Ireland, published by the House of Commons in 1812, for Queen's County there is liability of £23-14-9d for a Bond due from Paget Halpin, as a Surety, of Ballynamoney, Queen's County.

The National Archives (WO 42/20 H43) has papers from Mrs Margaret Halpin for an Army pension: Mrs Margaret Halpin of No 32 Aungun (?Arran) Street (Dublin), wife of Paget Halpin, Lieutenant 124th Regt. of Foot, died 14 January 1816, married 10 May 1794, "to whom no provision was left for a maintenance", signed by Margaret Halpin and dated Dublin August 13th 1819. Certification that "Lieut Paget Halpin upon Half pay on 19th April 1763 as a reduced Lieutenant of the late 124th Regt. of Foot, his affidavits were regularly and correctly returned to this office to Decr. 1815 to which time he was paid". Where the Colonel of the Regiment would have signed there is a statement that "The Colonel and every Officer of the 124th Regt. are long dead except a Lieut. J. Maxwell". There is a certified copy of marriage of Paget Halpen in the Queens County, Esq., and Margaret Delane of the Parish of St James in the Diocese of Dublin, Spinster, by the Most Revd. Father  Richard 'and so forth' (sic), dated 9th day of May 1794; by Special Licence from the Perogative Court in Ireland. Margaret Halpin is described as "now resident in Ashby de la Zouche in the County of Leicester" in a sworn statement from there, dated 19 October 1818. If the possible date of birth above is correct, he would have been about 75 when he died.

Paget is a very unusual first name. Paget Halpen / Halpin (above) was born 1742-4, possibly the son of Mark Halpen of Maryborough and Mary Paget who married about 1740. Paget Halpin is listed in the "A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800" [2000] as an engraver of 44 Mecklenburg Street, Dublin, with Philip Halpin, 1792 - 1795 and then at 32 Mecklenburg Street alone from 1801 - 1810. Paget's wife Margaret Delane was the daughter of Solomon Delane [c.1727-1812], a well-known landscape painter in Rome and Dublin [appointed Cork Herald by patent of 11th January, 1797], probably from his first marriage [his eldest daughter Susanna, "a great beauty" married the portrait painter Robert Home on 8th September 1783 in Dublin (Irish Arts Review)].
Also listed in the above Dictionary and in the Dictionary of Irish Artists 1913 is the possibly better known Patrick Halpin, engraver 1757 - 1807, of Blackamoor Yard and then 35 Temple Bar, who was also firstly Assistant Teller and then Teller of Stamps in Dublin from 1793 to 1807 (died June 1807). Apparently Patrick Halpin signed his works as HP, PHP and Patt.Halpin; it is suggested that other engravings signed PH are those of Paget Halpin.
This association of Halpins through their highly skilled engraving work suggests Patrick, Paget and Philip Halpin are all closely related (?brothers). Patrick Halpin's son was John Edmond Halpin, a  miniature painter and actor, born in 1764, the "son of Patrick Halpin and his wife
Eleanor" [A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 1913], of which more later.





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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow, etc., Continued
« on: Friday 08 February 13 17:34 GMT (UK)  »
Re: Paymaster William Halpin - 2

His service record return states his marriage was on 8th September 1798 in Wicklow. Of his children and from Church of Ireland baptism records and census returns we have the following:

Richard, baptised 9 January 1799, Wicklow, father William Halpin, mother Elizabeth (despite William giving Richard's birthdate as 8th January 1800).
William, born 31st July 1801 Limerick, baptised 4th August 1801 Wicklow, father William Halpin, mother Eliza.
John, born 28 June 1803, baptised 3rd July 1805 Wicklow, father Captain William Halpin, mother Eliza (note "Captain" and the date of baptism).
Anne, born 24 October 1805, baptised 4th November 1805 Wicklow, father William Halpin, mother Elizabeth.
George, born 13th October 1807, baptised "1st" October 1807 Tullamore, Co. Offaly, father William Halpin Paymaster-Kg Dragoons, mother Elizabeth Esmond.
[No records for Sophia or for Adolphus].

Thus William Halpin married Elizabeth Esmond on 8th September 1798 (note this is the day the 1798 Irish rebellion essentially ended, with the French under Humbert defeated at the Battle of Ballinamuck on the same day). Was William with the Loyalist forces during and before the rebellion (two Irish Fencible Cavalry Dragoon regiments were raised in 1794)? And did he have a government appointment between 1798 and 1806? (note son William born in Limerick). When son Richard died  in India in 1839, he was described as William Halpin of Castle Forbes, Dublin. the 1837 list of Registered Voters for Dublin show Wm. Halpin, gentleman, Castle Forbes, North Wall (note George Halpin, gentleman at Ballast-Yard, North Wall) and the National Archives of Ireland have records showing William Halpin leasing out several properties in Dublin in the vicinity of North Wall, between 1836 and 1840 (when he would have been aged 59 - 63).

In 1861 he was living at 39 Leinster Square in Bayswater, London, aged 84, described as a widower, Captain Half Pay Light Dragoons (with Anna 53 and Sophia 50, both unmarried, and William, Colonel Madras Army, 60 unmarried, and two maids). When did his wife Elizabeth die (presumably in Dublin)? Why did he come to London after presumably living in Dublin between 1818 and the 1850s (not in the England 1851 census)?  Was this to live with or near his sons William and George who both retired from the Madras Army in July and December 1861 respectively?
William Halpin died in December 1862 at 39 Leinster Square, Bayswater, London and
was buried in All Souls Cemetery, Kensal Green.

[Note, the only other Halpins in the National Archive records referred to above were Oliver Halpin, surgeon (born about 1777), of whose service I have details, and the ubiquitous Robert Crawford Halpin].

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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow, etc., Continued
« on: Friday 08 February 13 17:32 GMT (UK)  »
Re: Paymaster William Halpin - 1

While trawling through the the National Archives looking for Halpins and variants I found the returns of "Services of Officers on Full and Half Pay" of 1828 amongst which is that of William Halpin, the Paymaster in the King's German Legion and father of the Rev. Robert Crawford Halpin [Reference WO 25/762 on pp 305 - 308].

This provides the following information:

"William Halpin, age at first appointment 27 years; service from 24th October 1806 to 28th June 1816, 1st Dragoons, Kings German Legion, Paymaster, without purchase, on Half Pay by reduction; has made application for a district Paymastership.
Full pay 9yr 8/12 Half pay 13yr Total 22yr 8/12
Married 8th September 1798 Wicklow. Children:  Richard b 8 Jan 1800,  William b 31 July 1801,  John b 28 June 1803,  Anna b 24 October 1805,  George b 13 October 1807,  Sophia b 26 April 1810,  Aolphus (sic) [Adolphus] b 19 February 1812,  Robert b 11 August 1815.
Living last 5 years: Neighbourhood of Dublin.

Signed Wm Halpin, Paymaster 1st Drg K.G.L. Dublin 3 December 1828"


This gives his date of marriage and dates of birth of all William's children and adds a previously unknown son Adolphus (see below).

If Paymaster William Halpin was 27 at time of first appointment, this would imply he was born in 1779 (cf census returns that suggest 1777). Note his service is given here as from 24 October 1806 whereas in the Army Lists it is given as 6 January 1807; The Edinburgh Gazette of January 9th 1807 records "King's German Legion, 1st Regiment of Dragoons, William Halpin, Esq., to be Paymaster, vice Schmidern, who resigns". [The 1805 Army List gives the Paymaster of the King's
German Legion Cavalry as Ernest de Schmiedern, appointed 3 May 1804.] Note that
William Halpin is described as Esq. (Esquire), a rank above that of 'gentleman'.

There is no indication he held a military rank. The 1805 Army List includes only Oliver Halpin (Assistant surgeon, 44th Foot) and Paget Halpen, a Lieutenant on Irish Half pay, of the 124th Foot (Cunninghame's), disbanded in 1763. In support of this, other Army lists show no service as ensign or lieutenant. Note this record also states that his appointment was "without purchase" which means he did not have to pay for his Commission, perhaps suggesting an influential sponsor. 'On half pay by reduction' is a reference to the disbanding of the Kings German Legion in Hannover (Celle) in 1816.

The note that he has applied for a district Paymastership fits with letters of 1818 and 1819 (which I have not seen) in the National Archives of Ireland, Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers (Francis J Crowley Bequest) [Reference CSO/RP/1819/451] from Captain William Halpin of Windsor Avenue, Annesley Bridge, Dublin to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle enclosing a letter from Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge with a recommendation of Halpin for a post in revenue; and a letter from the Duke of Cambridge to Robert Peel, then Chief Secretary of Ireland recommending Halpin for government employment (with the replies, which would be of interest).

Note the Duke of Cambridge's name Adolphus and the name of Halpin's son born Febraury 1812 when he was serving in the Penisular and French wars (Field Marshal the Duke of Cambridge was Colonel in Chief of the Kings German Legion). The 1st and 2nd Dragoons (now Light Dragoons with new uniforms) of the King's German Legion arrived at Lisbon on 1st January 1812, remaining near there until March 12th and joining the rest of the Army at Entrenoz on March 23rd as the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Cavalry Division. It is rather unlikely that William's heavily pregnant wife would have accompanied him to the Penisular and Adolphus was presumably born in Ireland.

What would be of interest is what William Halpin was doing prior to joining the KGL in Ireland at the age of 28 and what he did after being reduced to half pay.


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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow, etc., Continued
« on: Thursday 31 January 13 17:10 GMT (UK)  »
Re:  Children and descendents of the Rev. Robert Crawford Halpin

George William Halpin, civil engineer

George William Halpin was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Crawford Halpin, born in 1850 in Ireland [baptised 5 August 1850] and married to Kate Wemyss in Edinburgh on 6 December 1876. He was reported as dying in Buenos Aires on 5th July 1922 aged 73 (The Times, 5th August 1922). Since there was no trace of him or Kate after the 1881 census it was assumed that they had gone to Argentina shortly after that date.

I have recently found that George William Halpin of 22 Belsize Square London (his father's home) was made an Ensign in the 2nd London Rifle Volunteer Corps (London Gazette 4 July 1871). He was admitted as a Freemason of the Celtic Lodge of Edinburgh and Leith on 4th February 1876 [proposed by Thomas B(rown) Wemyss, Kate Wemyss' brother].

BillW and I have also found reference to a design (no 63) George submitted for the Great Tower for London (intended as a rival to the Eiffel Tower, to be built at Wembley Park in London), published in 1890 and to a design for a model stationary steam engine (in the Model Engineer) in 1901. These suggest he was in London at least periodically since he used the address 22 Belsize Square, although there are no census returns for him or Kate.

I have also found, in 'Immigration Records of Argentina' [www.immigration-records.com.ar] derived from the Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA) [http://www.cemla.com]:

HALPIN -
Apellido y Nombre Edad Estado Civil Profesión Religión Nacionalidad  Barco Procedencia Datos de arribo  Fecha de arribo / Puerto  Nacido en
                                                                 
HALPIN, GEORGE W. 57  C  INGENIERO  CATOLICA  INGLESA  AVON VIGO  02/09/1910 -
BUENOS AIRES DESCONOCIDO

HALPIN, KATE          56  C  DOMESTICA CATOLICA  INGLESA  ASTURIAS VIGO  02/07/1911 -
BUENOS AIRES DESCONOCIDO

which show that George W Halpin, aged 57, married (casado), engineer, Catholic, English, travelled on the (SS) Avon from Vigo (in Spain) arriving in Buenos Aires on 2nd September 1910, followed by Kate Halpin,aged 56, married, housewife, Catholic, English, travelled on the (SS) Asturias from Vigo, arriving in Buenos Aires on 2nd July 1911.
This suggests that their arrival in Argentina was much later than I had thought before and that perhaps they were moving there in retirement. Slightly anomalous are "Catholic" (they married in an Anglican Church in Edinburgh) and "English" [desconocido means unknown and refers to their place of birth]. As I reported in a previous post, the SS Asturias and the SS Avon were ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. undertaking regular voyages from Southampton to Buenos Aires via Cherbourg, Vigo, Lisbon, Rio and other South American ports between 1907 and WW1.

Where George and Kate were living between 1881 and 1910 remains to be discovered. The report in The Times of George Halpin's death appealed for relatives suggesting Kate was already dead by 1922 and that they had no children.


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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow, etc., Continued
« on: Thursday 31 January 13 15:26 GMT (UK)  »
Re: Rev. Robert Crawford Halpin, Chaplain to the Forces, son of Paymaster [Captain] William Halpin, KGL

I have returned to Robert Crawford Halpin and his family.

In the National Archives I have found in 'Reports of Officers Marriages' [WO 25 / 3240] a handwritten return (copy available) from him with details of his marriage to Eleanor Wallace on 13 November 1847 in the Parish Church of Swords, Co Dublin; married by the Rev. John Hare, witnesses Thomas Hunt and John Dobbs. Eleanor Wallace was '22' years old at marriage and Robert was '29'. These returns were required under the Widows Pension Regulations of 1830 (bureaucracy even then!) to ensure widows of officers would receive pensions due when their husbands died.

Robert Crawford Halpin died on 19 March 1889 at 22 Belsize Square and left £2,291 5s 10d, probate to his son Arthur Frederick Halpin and his son-in-law Robert Halket Halkett. I have now also found his burial at Hampstead Cemetery, buried on 25th March 1889 - Surprisingly, in the same grave are buried four members of the Savory family (buried 1890, 1895, 1903 and 1903) who are as far as I can determine completely unrelated (Thomas Savory was a baker, originally from Norfolk). When the weather improves I will go there to locate the grave and also to view 22 Belsize Square (and 54 Belsize Park where Robert's brother Colonel George Halpin [of the Madras Army] lived) - from Google maps both rather substantial and elegant houses even today.

Robert's wife Eleanor died on 11 November 1903 [left £404 1s 4d., probate to her widowed daughter Eleanor Sophie Halkett] but there is no record of her being buried at Hampstead Cemetery. I will keep looking for her burial.

Eleanor Sophie Halkett died on 9 June 1921 [left £786 13s 7d, probate to her unmarried daughter Moira Katherine Esmonde Halkett] and is also buried at Hampstead Cemetery 14th June 1921. In the same grave is her infant son Esmonde Robert Crawford Halkett who was born on 31st July 1883 and was buried on 13th September 1884.

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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow, etc., Continued
« on: Thursday 24 January 13 10:07 GMT (UK)  »
I have been encouraged by BillW to come out of my nest!

To reply to his last post of 31 December 2012 about travels of William Henry  Halpin: I have looked more closely at the passenger lists  and found that William Henry Halpin (63) and his son William Richard Halpin (15) were not actually travelling from Buenos Aires although the ship did start its voyage from there.

Mr W H Halpin b 1863, solicitor of Ford Lodge, Cavan, and his son William Richard Halpin (15) departed from Southampton on 30th March 1928 to Madeira, on the Union Castle Line ship SS Arundel Castle, final destination of the ship South Africa; They returned from Madeira to Southampton on 2nd May 1928 on board the SS Asturias (Royal Mail Steam Packet Co) via Lisbon and Vigo; the SS Asturias had set off from Buenos Aires on a regular Royal Mail Line voyage to and from South America, via France, Spain, Portugal and Madeira. It is possibly relevant that Easter Sunday in 1928 was on April 8th so I would imagine William senior was simply taking his son on holiday during the school holidays.

This is supported by finding William Henry Halpin (66) and William Richard Halpin (16) again, going to Marseilles on 5 April 1929 (on the P&O SS Mooltan to Sydney), again roughly coincident with Easter in 1929 on March 31st. William Henry Halpin also went to Marseilles on 11 February 1927 (unaccompanied) on the P&O SS Mooltan.

As I am sure has been reported before, William Henry Halpin died at Ford Lodge, Cavan on 17 April 1937, probate to his wife Caroline Isabella Emma Halpin (nee Hutton) and his son John Ralph Halpin, solicitor (left about £12,013). William Richard (Crosier) Halpin was born on 28 June 1912 in Dublin, was an accountant (Major RASC WW2, seconded to The Treasury 1942-44; company director post WW2), married Hilary Alicia Keighley-Bell, daughter of Lt-Col Henry Keighley-Bell of Hurlingham Court, Putney, in 1939 and had three children; died 1999 in Camden, London. His wife died in 2000.

Hope this solves the apparent connection with Buenos Aires - I think they were just on holiday in Madeira.

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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow County, Portarlington County Laois, and Dublin City.
« on: Tuesday 27 April 10 12:42 BST (UK)  »
Children of Robert Halket Halkett and Eleanor Sophie Halkett, nee Halpin

 [Eleanor Sophie Halpin, b 1853 Dublin; married Robert Halket Halkett, 25th July1882, St Peter’s, Belsize Park, Hampstead, London; died 1921 Hampstead “aged 69"]

            2a Esmonde Robert Crawford Halkett, b 31st July 1883, bapt 27 August 1883, St Peter’s Belsize Park, Hampstead, family at 3 Hemstall Road, West Hampstead
      Died 1884, Hampstead. Aged 1

        2b Guy Wallace Halkett, b 26 February1886, Hampstead, bapt 24 March, St Peter’s; family at Broadhurst Gardens, Hampstead
1901 at Repton School in Derbyshire (played cricket for Repton School against Malvern College 1904); Passenger lists show him as a tourist in Canada in 1910, not on UK1911 census; Lieutenant Guy Wallace Halkett in on the 1914-1919 Roll of Honour of the London Regiment (28th Battalion, Artists Rifles), listed in the Reserve Cavalry Regiment from 23 May 1918 and with the final rank of Brigade Major; 1923 and 1924 passenger lists show him on ships to and from Buenos Aires, Argentina (see George Halpin in previous post); described as a schoolmaster, Malvern College; however, thereafter no further record and no evidence for marriage, death etc in England.

        2c Alan Templeton Halkett, b 1889 Hampstead; 1911 census an engineer draughtsman in Bridgend; National Archives show 2/Lieut. Alan Templeton Halkett in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers for 1916-1918, London Gazette has him relinquishing his commission on 29 January 1919, 6th Reserve Regiment; passenger lists for 1917, 1919, 1934 and 1939 show him as a tea planter, travelling to and from India; apparently unmarried; South African records show Alan Templeton Halkett d. 1949, Cape Town, estate papers available.

        2d Moira Katherine Esmonde Halkett, b 16 October 1890, Hampstead, bapt 16 November 1890, St Peter’s, from Broadhurst Gardens, Hampstead; no evidence for marriage or death in England

   The 1901 census shows the widowed Eleanor Sophie Halkett living with her widowed mother at 22 Belsize Square, Hampstead (no children present; 3 servants); in 1911 she was at a school in Eastry, Kent , described as a professional musician, born Dublin but nationality “Scotch”, with her daughter Moira, aged 20 but still described as a “schoolgirl”.

   Robert Halkett died in 1896 aged 43, in Eastry, Kent.
   Eleanor Sophie Halkett died in 1921 in Hampstead, “aged 69".

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Wicklow / Re: Halpins of Wicklow County, Portarlington County Laois, and Dublin City.
« on: Tuesday 27 April 10 12:39 BST (UK)  »
Family of Robert Crawford Halpin

[Reverend Robert C Halpin, Chaplain to the Forces etc.]

Details of Robert C Halpin have been posted by me and others previously; [son of Captain William Halpin, formerly Paymaster to First Dragoons, King’s German Legion; born about 1821 Antwerp, Belgium while father serving there with KGL; died 1889, Belsize Square, Hampstead, London].

Married Eleanor Wallace 18 November 1847, Swords, Dublin (IGI) [Eleanor Wallace, b ca 1825, Co. Down, Ireland, father Robert Wallace; died 1903, Belsize Square, Hampstead, London]

Not known where Robert or Eleanor were buried.

Known children:

     1.   George William Halpin, b 1850 Ireland, Civil Engineer; married Kate Wemyss 6th December1876, St Paul’s Chapel, York Place, Edinburgh; 1881 census living with wife in Duddingstone, Edinburgh (with one servant).

   died 5 July 1922 Buenos Aires, Argentina, “aged 73" (Ray Halpin).

          [Comment: this is the Halpin I was originally searching for, but have no other information on him or on Kate or any descendants].

     2.   Eleanor Sophie Halpin, b 1853 Dublin; married Robert Halket Halkett, 25th July1882, St Peter’s, Belsize Park, Hampstead, London; died 1921 Hampstead “aged 69".

            Robert Halket Halkett was born in 1851 in Bridgend, Glamorgan as Robert Halket Smith (father Thomas George Smith, a bank manager, and Jessie Halkett; Thomas George Smith, Esq. and Miss Jessie Halkett married in Edinburgh in September 1847; Jessie was daughter of Samuel Halkett, Esq., a merchant, and I imagine Robert changed his surname as part of an inheritance). Robert was a bank manager.

   Known children: see next post (Halkett)

   Robert Halkett died in 1896 aged 43, in Eastry, Kent.
   Eleanor Sophie Halkett died in 1921 in Hampstead, “aged 69".


     3.   Eliza Halpin, b 1856 Dublin; unmarried in 1891 when living with mother and brother in Hampstead; no records thereafter (?married in Ireland).

     4.   Arthur F Halpin, b 4 May 1862 Dublin
            1881 and 1882 3rd Officer (Mate) on SS Devonshire on runs to Sydney, Australia; On the 1881 census he is in Kent, described as a sailor; in 1891 living with mother and sister in Hampstead, described as Navigating Officer, HMTS Monarch [in 1891 HMTS Monarch laid the first GPO submarine telephone cable between Dover, England and Sangatte, France, enabling the first international telephone call between Paris and London].

   There is no confirmed further data on Arthur but there was a Lieutenant Arthur Halpin in the 16th Middlesex Volunteers (London Irish) to 1887, to which the Rev. Robert C Halpin was Chaplain, also to 1887; there is a Major Arthur F Halpin on passenger lists to and from America in 1896 and Arthur F Halpins in America (New York and the Philippines) in 1900, 1910 and 1920 Census records but I am not convinced these are the same.

     5.   Henry E B Halpin, b 1864 Dublin
             Married Maude Mary Tremellan in Machynlleth, Wales in 1904 [Maude was born in1865 in Islington, London, daughter of a solicitor, and was at private school in Hampstead in1881 (where Henry was also at school and no doubt they met socially); in 1891 she was living alone, with one servant, in a cottage in Machynlleth, “living on own means”, so was of independent wealth at that time. Henry must have pursued her there!
 Henry Halpin died in 1929 in East Preston Sussex, England and Maude also died there in 1930. There is no evidence for children.

This summarises the data on this family. The only one with known children was Eleanor Sophie Halkett (Halpin) but there is no evidence these offspring were ever married. Given that none of the other known children of Captain William Halpin were married, his Halpin line may have died out (except just possibly for Eliza and George William??).

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