Halpin family of Wicklow - Part 1

[BillW]

 Halpin Church of Ireland Dublin Parish Extracts

[The following were extracted selectively from the site http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?, transcriptions of Parish Register holdings of the NLI for Kerry and Dublin.  I have concentrated on Dublin Church of Ireland entries.  Most has been cut and pasted and spellings are original.]

Marriage of JOHN GREVILLE of N/R and HANNAH HALPEN of N/R on 27 Dec 1740 Clondalkin C of I Parish
Burial of ROSE HALPIN of THOMAS STREET on 7 July 1745 St James C of I
Burial of PETER HALPIN of THOMAS STREET on 14 November 1745 St James C of I
Burial of WILLIAM HALPIN of CATHERINE STREET on 8 December 1746 St James C of I
Burial of SAMUEL HALPIN of FRANCIS STREET on 7 June 1750 St James C of I
Burial of FRANCIS HALPEN of FRANCIS STREET on 30 November 1751 St James
Baptism of JOHN HALPIN of N/R on 28 October 1753 St James C of I father James Halpin; mother Abigail
Marriage of LYCENCE RICHARD POOLE of N/R and HONORIA HALPIN of N/R on 20 Nov 1753 St Paul’s C of I
Baptism of THOS HALPIN of N/R on 10 August 1760 St James C of I father James Halpin; mother Abigail
Burial of PAUL HALPIN of N/R on 10 June 1761 St Catherine’s C of I
Baptism of GEORGE HALPIN of N/R on 14 March 1762 St James C of I father James Halpin; mother Abigail
Burial of THOS HALPEN of GOLDEN BRIDGE on 22 February 1764 St James
Baptism of WM HALPEN of WATLING ST on 18 July 1764 St James C of I father James Halpen; mother Abigail
Baptism of ANN HALPIN of CORK STREET on 2 Sept 1765 St Catherine’s father Jno Halpin; mother  Mary Wood
Baptism of ANTHONY HALPEN of WALR ST on 5 April 1767 St James C of I father James Halpen, occupation weaver; mother Abigail
Burial of LEIUT RICH HALPEN of GOLDEN BRIDGE on 19 December 1767 St James
Burial of JOSHUA HALPIN of N/R on 24 October 1768 St Catherine’s C of I
Baptism of MARY HALPEN of N/R on 12 July 1774 St John’s C of I father Richd Halpen; mother Mary
Marriage of HENRY HALPIN of N/R and FRANCES JONES of N/R on 27 February 1775 St Paul’s C of I
Burial of MARY HALPEN of BRITIAN STREET on 25 February 1776 St James
Burial of MARY HALPEN of JAMES STREET on 25 May 1776 St James
Burial of JOSEPH HALPEN of BRITTAIN STREET on 15 October 1776 St James
Baptism of RICHD HALPIN of N/R on 14 Jan 1777 St John’s C of I father Richd Halpin; mother Mary
Burial of JAMS HALPIN'S HALPIN of N/R on 8 April 1778 St John’s C of I
Burial of JOSEPH HALPEN of COPPER ALLEY on 11 October 1781 St James
Burial of HARPER HALPEN of KILMAINHAM on 11 December 1785 St James
Baptism of RO HALPIN of DIRTY LANE on 14 May 1786 St Catherine’s C of I father Saml Halpin; mother Ann
Marriage of JOHN HALPIN of N/R and JANE STAMER of N/R on 18 August 1786 St Peter’s C of I
Burial of RICHARD HALPIN of GOLDEN BRIDGE on 9 August 1787 St James C of I
Baptism of HENRY HALPEN of BLACK PITS on 12 Aug 1787 St Nicholas Without father Thos Halpen; mother Alice
Burial of HALPEN of GOLDEN-BRIDGE on 22 March 1792 St James
Burial of MARY HALPIN of CHURCH STREET on 25 August 1794 St James C of I
Burial of ELIZABETH HALPIN of MARYBORAH on 20 September 1799 St Catherine’s C of I
Burial of JOHN HALPEN of KEVIN ST on 14 November 1818 St Peter’s C of I aged 80
Burial of A.N. HALPEN of PORTOBELLO died 8 June 1825 St Peter’s C of I aged 60
Marriage of GEORGE HALPIN of ST. JAMES' PARISH and MARGARET CAVANAGH of ST. JAMES'S PARISH on 14 June 1830, witness Charlotte Halpin
Burial of EDWARD HALPIN of NEW STREET 1833 St Peter’s C of I, aged 3
Baptism of FREDERICK YATES of RATHMINES on 8 June 1833, St Peter’s C of I, born 28 Apr 1833, father Frederick Horatio Yates; mother Caroline Halpen
Baptism of CAROLINE LOUISA HALPIN of RICHMOND HILL on 16 March 1835 St Peter’s C of I, born 19 Sep 1834, father Frederick Horatio Halpin; mother Caroline
Marriage of FREDERICK NORATIO (Horatio?) HALPEN of GREENWICK CO KENT ESQUARE and ELIZA SARAH WOLFENDEN of SALISBURY PLACE on 1 June 1841 St Peter’s C of I
Baptism of PAGOT HALPIN SWEENY of CAMDEN STREET N/R 1841 Crumlin C of I, father John Paget Sweeny; mother Matilda Yeates
Burial of PAGET HALPIN SWEENY of CAMDEN ST on 15 August 1842, St Peter’s C of I, aged 15 months. St Kevins Cemetery
Burial of MARGARET HALPIN of MEATH HOSPITAL on 20 June 1847 St Peter’s C of I, aged 49
Baptism of MARK HALPIN SWENY of 5 CAMDEN STREET DUBLIN on N/R 1850, Crumlin C of I, father John Paget Sweeny; mother Matilda Yeates
Burial of JOHN HALPIN of 5 DUBLIN UNION on N/R 1853, St James’s C of I, dod 23 Dec 1853, aged 20
Burial of JAMES HALPIN of S DUBLIN UNION on  N/R 1855, St James’s C of I, dod 21 April, aged 63
Burial of JOHN HALPIN of THOMAS STREET on 9 January 1872 St Catherine’s C of I, aged 38

Bill Webster
January 2010

[kenneth cooke]

Thanks for that Bill.
I can now write in the date of death for my Gr Great uncle, Paget Halpin Sweny, 1841-1842. I've always wondered what happened to him. He was the fourth child of John Paget Sweny (2) and Matilda Yeates. Fortunately the third child survived. She was Margaret Falkner Sweny, my great grandmother. There were 14 children altogether, from 1836 to 1860. Mark Halpin was the eighth, bapt. on 24.10.1850.
J P Sweny 1811-1883 was named after his uncle, who was a Major and a veteran of Waterloo 1815. His brother Mark Halpen Sweny was a RN Captain and a veteran of Trafalgar, 1805. They were sons of Eugene Sweny and Eliz. Halpen.
I thought that we had a few new names in the Yeates family, in spite of the different spelling, but I was wrong. Horatio and Frederick were common in our Yeates line. After Trafalgar, thousands of little English boys were called Horatio, so it's just a coincidence.
Great stuff, as they say on the Halpin Forum !
Regards,
Ken

[Shanachai]

Outstanding contributions, lads.  Our little game of one-upmanship ends here, though - for the time being I've nothing more to pull out of the hat - nothing relevant to this thread, anyway. 

     Will try harder to distinguish me Mackles from me Meckles, Ken.  But is it burg or berg? 

     Remember, the men of Portarlington were RN men too - at least the two preceding Old Nic the headmaster.  And in the brief glance I had at the possibilities of the Bradley line, they too may well have been officers under Nelson in the French wars (NB Brian).  And if we leap forward a generation or two, my great great grand father, Wicklow Town Clerk, etc, was named Robert Wellington Halpin...I think some of our distant ancestors were blue-blooded Imperial patriots.  Think about that for a minute - how would such men, veterans of some of the greatest victories in British naval history, respond to the rebellious political views and actions of their sons, nephews, neighbours?  Think of the Australian veterans of  Vietnam or WW11.  Now think of the events in the run-up to the rebellion of 1798...The RN ex-Seamen of Portarlington were no different to today's flag-bearing veterans.  This isn't meant to be a criticism of anyone's loyalties (far from it), merely a reference to the emotional partialities that had to exist back then.  These are things we can relate to.  And they will help us form an appreciation of the fraught inter and extra familial relationships that must have existed in 1798, when my family lore says the Halpin family split along political lines...the inter-familial tensions that existed in '98 resurfaced again in the revolutionary period 1914-1926, which puts a few neat parameters around our story. 

     Will be away for a week or so now.  Hold the fort while I'm gone.

[BillW]

I have just found a GEORGE HALPIN, born WICKLOW Wicklow, discharged from the army in 1800 aged 22.  This of course provides an indicated year of birth about 1788.

My George Halpin senior is a candidate, year of birth 1789, calculated from his age given at death, 75 in July 1854.

However, could the army have provided the experience described in this article under the Heading "Founding Father of the Irish Lighthouse Service":

The 8 July 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of the death of George Halpin senior.  George Halpin joined the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (the Ballast Board) on 26 September 1800 as Inspector of Works at the age of 21 in place of Francis Turnstall, deceased.  The report of the Commission of Inquiry into the municipal corporations of Ireland (1835) defined Halpin as 'not an Engineer in the professional sense but was brought up as a builder'...........


Regardless, here is evidence of a George Halpin born Wicklow about 1788 (the year the colony of New South Wales was established as a settlement of penal transportation).


This record is among pre 1854 army discharge records held at the NLA Kew.  Go to

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp?j=1,

enter the surname sought and in the Series type WO 97.  The particular record found is at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-4001855&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CHALPIN&accessmethod=0

Bill

[kenneth cooke]

There seems to be some confusion about the Halpen/Paget/Sweny line. I'll try to explain, but it involves some speculation.
Mark Halpen of Maryborough married Mary Paget about 1740. They had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Eugene Sweny in 1777. I believe they also had a son, Paget Halpen, b. abt 1740. He became an engraver, of Dublin, active abt 1780-1810. Another Dublin engraver was Patrick Halpin (father of John Edmund, miniature painter) who was the same generation as Paget. I believe he was either Paget's brother or cousin.
John Halpin, bookseller (d.1810), same generation, was from Woodville, Q.C. and was probably closely related too.
We know nothing at all about the Paget family.
Paget Halpen mar. Margt, dau of Solomon Delane, landscape painter in 1794, and they seem to be the parents of Paget (jnr) b. 1795, who went to the US and became a sugar planter.
The children of Eugene Sweny and Elizabeth Halpen were: Mary, 1778,  (Maj) John Paget 1780-1841,
Elizabeth 1782,  (RN Capt) Mark Halpen 1783-1865,  Eugene (jnr) 1785-1872.
I am descended from Eugene jnr. who was a coachmaker of Camden St, through his eldest son, John Paget Sweny (2) 1810-1883, who married Matilda Yeates.
Ken Cooke

[kenneth cooke]

Bill,
Your Dublin Parish Extracts- I can identify one of the Halpins.
John Halpin, who married Jane Stamer at St Peter's on 18.8.1786 was the bookseller (& libeller).
I can't find the page now, I think it must be from the Oxford DNB:
John Halpin,  bookseller, 55 Henry St 1786-1795, Sackville St 1796-1810, mar. Aug.1786 Jane, dau of late Thomas Stamer of Co Clare. Will proved 1811, succeeded by wife, Jane.
Ken

[BillW]

Ken, thanks for that. 
Did you spot among the parish register entries I posted a couple of days ago

Burial of ELIZABETH HALPIN of MARYBORAH on 20 September 1799 St Catherine’s C of I

This presumably was another, possibly related, family from Maryborough where Halpens or Pagets came from.  Unfortunately the entry does not give her age.  I wonder if there could be a record of her memorial inscription?  If buried in Dublin but of Maryborough, it is unlikely to have been an infant death.  Halpin could be her name or her husband's.

Of course she could be from any of the Queens County Halpins, Maryborough not a million miles from Portarlington.

The first Paget Halpen, by your figures, was in his 50s when marrying Margaret Delane.  Nothing wrong with that but just querying whether there wasn’t room for a generation in between.


Bill

[kenneth cooke]

Bill,
Yes, I did see the entry for Eliz Halpin d. 1799 but I don't know where she fits in.
Of course there could have been 3 generations of Pagets, and two of Marks. I've got Mark in England
marrying about 1718, and his daughter Eliz marrying in 1777. That's quite a big gap. Also Paget, who was a voter of M'borough in 1760, so must have been born before 1740.
Another thing that has just struck me- John Halpen of Woodville, Q'Co. mar. Mrs Swettenham (Eliz Toone) in 1800.
I had assumed that he was the bookseller, but the ODNB entry above says that his widow Jane survived him after he died in 1811. Must be a different John.
I wouldn't mind a bet that the 'marriage broker' was Eliz Sweny, nee Halpen, wife of Eugene, who was
Mrs Swet.'s first cousin.
Ken

[kenneth cooke]

Bill, another bet !
Eliz Halpin  bur. St Cath. Dub. 20.9.1799 was the wife of John H. of Woodville & Dublin.
He remarried, to Mrs. Swett. in Aug 1800.
Ken