Halpin family of Wicklow - Part 1

[BillW]

Spiddal and Nobber are adjacent and so this could be one of the Nobber family.  But we should keep aware of all people, as you say, Ray.

Bill

[tompion]

Thanks for all your interesting posts. I just noticed a website which gives biographies of journalists from 1800 (http://www.scoop-database.com/search/) and which has entries for Rev Nicholas John Halpin, Charles Graham Halpin and William Henry Halpin.  Has anybody seen these 'Scoop' biographies - I suspect they will not include any information you have not already unearthed but if nobody has looked at them you can access for a day for £5.

Best wishes, Brian

[mo iom]

My Halpin connection appears to be from Meath rather than Wicklow, and certainly not, as far as I am aware, from such as distinguished a lineage as many of those on this thread, but a couple of co-incidences have cropped up and I was wondering if some kind person could point me in the right direction. My grandmother was Mary Ann Brennan born 1911 in Meath. I know very little about her family apart from her mother being Maggie and that she had a full sister Pauline and other unnamed brothers and a half sister Angela Halpin. I am a complete novice at Irish genealogy and have struggled to find details on Mary Anne so I thought I might be able to find her through the Halpin link. I eventually found her mother Maggie on the 1911 census listed at house 49 Betaghstown-Julianstown. The head of household is her sister Mary Anne Halpin aged 38. Maggie is also 38 and married less than one year to James Brennan aged 30, a labourer of Kings County. I then looked on IGI and found Marianne and Margaret Halpin born in 1873 to Nicholas Halpin and Mary Gynene Halpin of Meath. They seem to have a younger sister Ellemira, possibly an older brother Patrick and Mary Gynene's maiden name may have been Byrne. The family were Roman Catholics. I apologise for butting in on this thread, but the Nicholas Halpin name kept cropping up with a link to Meath, and while there seems to be no obvious connection, perhaps someone can help.

[Shanachai]

     I'm afraid I don't have much to say about Nicholas Halpin of Meath, other than what I've said already.  I'll be back in the archives in Dublin in a couple of weeks and I'll spend a little time looking for anything I can find on your ancestor.  If I find anything, I'll pass it on. Cheers, R.

[halpinr]

Hello,

My name is Robert Halpin, son of William Halpin, Grandson of William 'Willy' Halpin of Hawthorn Tce.
I hope to join your interesting discussion which I have been following closely.
My aunt Tilly(sister of Conny) told me the afore mentioned Murphy who controversially married Edwin was the sister of Fr Murphy of old Killcormac. Is this accurate by your accounts?

I have much to share with all of you and look forward to more posts from you all

Kind Regards

Robert Halpin

[Shanachai]

     Hello Robert.  You and I must be cousins of a sort.  Your grandfather William was my grandfather's older brother.  I'm delighted to see another Halpin with Dublin roots join the discussion.
     I know very little about Marianne - William's mother.  She was a Wexford girl, from the town of Wexford.  Her father, William Murphy, was a shoemaker and a fiercely opinionated champion of working class rights, but I don't know if he was ever an active unionist.  Marianne married William's father - Edwin - in Wexford town in 1883.  He was about twenty nine at the time and she was either sixteen or ninteen, depending on which documents you read.  I'm told large gaps in the ages of brides and grooms were common in country towns and rural Ireland right up till the mid sixties, but I don't know how reliable that is.  At any rate, all I know about Marianne is that she died in 1911 or 1913 and that she was a teacher.  Beyond these slim pickings purely factual information about her is hard to come by.  I certainly didn't know she had a brother - Fr. Murphy of Killcormac.  If you mean the Father Murphy who featured so prominently in the Wexford rebellion in 1798 - that can't be correct, since he was nearly 70 years dead by the time she was born.  She may have been a descendent - but then every Murphy in Ireland claims that.  I will try to find out what I can about him.
     Once again, delighted you could join the conversation.  Cheers, Ray. 

[Diane Carruthers]

Thanks Ray for the information about the will of Nicholas Halpin.  One can always live in hope that it is a family member.

Diane

[halpinr]

thanks again for all your research look forward to read all of what you dig up

[BillW]

Ken, you may have seen, but others may not, that your Paget Halpins go way back.

From Alumni Dublinenses:

HALPENNY, PAGITT, Pen (Dr Hinton, Queen's Co.), Nov 1, 1698, aged 16;  s of Nicholas, Generosus; b. Queen's Co.

Here is a Nicholas Halpin who had a son born about 1682, so we can conjecture about his own birth but surely before 1660.

Bill (thanks to Diane).