Halpin family of Wicklow - Part 1

[BillW]

Richard, it could help those willing to assist if you could supply more information. 

Where was/is the Kilmainham Estate and who owned it?  How is the Halpin/Greville marriage date known?  Any more details?  Are you able to refer us to the research material of Lorne Halpin Greville or Sydney Halpin Greville so we can compare what we know with what they have?

Richard, I have been researching and casting about for Halpin information for many years and this is the first time I have seen mention of the name Greville.  Naturally I am intrigued.  Halpin was not such an uncommon name although I think those who were not Catholic were a minority of them.

Bill.

Hello to all Irish Halpins!

Enquiry into HALPIN-GREVILLE Connection


Can anyone help me, please? I am looking for the HALPIN family in Co. Dublin around the 18th/19th century and in particular in connection to Kilmainham Estate. I understand that an antecedent of mine, John GREVILLE married Hannah HALPIN on 27 Dec 1740. Since then the GREVILLE family has taken on the HALPIN name before the GREVILLE (see Lorne HALPIN GREVILLE who has been researching the GREVILLE family tree in Australia while my great uncle (?), Sydney HALPIN GREVILLE was doing the same in the UK and Ireland).

My father, Howard GREVILLE, was the first to have lost the HALPIN but I have added it to my son’s name, ------------------.

Richard

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[RichG]

Bill, Julia,
Many thanks for your replies. Unfortunately my copy of the family (GREVILLE) history is with my parents but I should get hold of it fairly soon. However, what I can say is that Sydney has researched the family tree right back to 1401 which is quite impressive! He had quite a lot of trouble finding information out about the Halpins in Ireland due the equivalent of Somerset House, let's say, suffering a mishap and records being destroyed! However, as I recall, Kilmainham Estate was in Dublin and I do not think it has anything to do with the gaol.

Sydney suspected that there was a branch of the Halpin Greville family in Australia and asked my sister, Monica, to have a look through the Sydney (Australia) phone book for Greville's! Lorne was one of the few Greville's that were listed By extreme coincidence, he had also been researching the family tree so the two started to communicate (by post as the web and e-mails were not around in those days!) Lo and behold, the two parts of the tree dovetailed perfectly!

Lorne is active on GenForum and was the first site that came up when I Googled 'Lorne Halpin Greville'. I am sure he as well as I would be very interested to find out more about the Halpin connection as it has been in the Greville family for over 200 years. I will try to send him a message.

Richard

[iwonder_who]

Hello

I hope I am not out of line posting in here but I am looking for family of a Mary Anne Halpin born 1841 Ireland.   Adare. Limerick.    She married in 1861 in Lancashire Liverpool to an Augustine Achilles.   He was born in Leinster Ireland.   

From records I can see a possibility Mary Anne  Halpin was the daughter of a James Halpin & Maria Mary Adams..... other siblings James Halpin 1839  & Elizabeth Halpin 1854.   On the IGI site this family reference has a notation from contributor as being related to George Teskey if that is recognisable to anyone.

On a query I posted in general someone advised me to look here.  Does anyone know if these are the same line of Halpins contained in this thread...  Wicklow...... or if it is unrelated?   Many thanks

[Shanachai]

The link between the Wicklow/Queens County/Dublin group of Halpins and the Halpins located in Limerick is very hard to establish, since reliable records are almost impossible to locate.  My own gut feeling is that the link is non-existent, since most of the Limerick Halpins were Catholic, whereas virtually all of the Halpins mentioned on this site are - or were - Protestant.  There are, however, extensive references to the Limerick Halpins in the National Library newspaper archives, which are accessible through most inter-library web services (I think).  As for the research specific to the Halpins mentioned above - I hope to resume posting details shortly, after a bout of ill health and a few weeks work in rural Wexford - much needed, I can tell you.  Cheers.

[docthetinman]

My gt gt grandmother was Sarah Ann Halpin her father was Patrick and it says that he was from Wicklow.

Nina

[Shanachai]

Any idea when Sarah Anne or Patrick were born, or their approximate ages when they died?  The date of their deaths would help, and their religion.

[docthetinman]

All i have is that Patrick was born abt 1840 in Wicklow,he moved to Northumberland England before 1864 and married a Margaret Brown,they was RC i think

[Shanachai]

It may take us some time, but we'll see what we can do.  If I come across anything that might be of interest to you, I'll send you a personal message.  Cheers.

[docthetinman]

Thank you

Nina