Halpins of Co. Wicklow, Portarlington and Dublin City - Part 2

[AussieHalps]

Ray,
I have been following this fantastic conversation/investigation for some time (as a guest) and I have just plucked up the courage to post.

Some of these names that you and others have mentioned are familiar to me. My father (now in the twilight of his life) has mentioned some of these names and places.

I feel like every week or month when I read the updated thread, the world has just got that bit smaller and it is great to see so many people assisting each other. It is like a mystery or puzzle and you are all doing such a great and passionate job working together to solve it. Well done

Who knows where it might lead to...London, Bahrain, Singapore, Darwin in Australia.

Keep it coming guys it is most enjoyable.

Aussie HALPIN

[bray]

It certainly is a small world!

On Tuesday J M mentioned Roundwood...a place of great memories, of all school holidays spent with members of my family who lived there
Yesterday Henry John Brownrigg of Wicklow my 3rd Gt Grandfather listed with Halpins.

Meanwhile I am supposed to be researching my husband's family tree. Halpins etc
 

[BillW]

The most often repeated regret of family researchers is that NOW they can think of all the questions they should have asked their oldies THEN.

It is so important, if you are or think you may be interested in your family's history, to ask, to prompt and to note everything your oldies can reveal.  Ask to see and to make notes on (make copies of) photos, letters, diaries - anything.  You don't know now how much you may regret not doing it when you can no longer ask them.  If they may no longer be capable, make notes NOW of what you remember them having said, because the more time goes by the less reliable your own memory will be.

In this case, the names and places your father mentioned might be of interest to any of us at this site.  Your recording them here, where appropriate, would be a start on the above.  As you can see, posting to the list is not hard.

Bill

Ray,
I have been following this fantastic conversation/investigation for some time (as a guest) and I have just plucked up the courage to post.

Some of these names that you and others have mentioned are familiar to me. My father (now in the twilight of his life) has mentioned some of these names and places.

I feel like every week or month when I read the updated thread, the world has just got that bit smaller and it is great to see so many people assisting each other. It is like a mystery or puzzle and you are all doing such a great and passionate job working together to solve it. Well done

Who knows where it might lead to...London, Bahrain, Singapore, Darwin in Australia.

Keep it coming guys it is most enjoyable.

Aussie HALPIN

[kenneth cooke]

To Bray,
Another coincidence for you-
Eliz Sweny nee Halpen must have died before her husband Eugene (druggist).
He remarried-
Eugene Sweny, James St, Gent and Lydia Jane Brownrigg 1.11.1794
She was bapt. 26.3.1761 St Peter & St Kevin Dub. parents John & Jane B.
No children recorded.
Ken

[BillW]

Re Richard Halpin.

I am a little disappointed to report that I have found the death of one of the two, so far, missing sons of Captain William Halpin (the remaining one being John).  I say disappointed because there was a Richard Halpin, tide surveyor and harbour master at Howth, who I was hoping fitted the bill.

However, as I believe I have previously reported but had forgotten, we have found a Captain Richard Halpin who died in a boating accident at Dinapore in India in 1839, serving with the 49th Regiment.  He was reported as born in 1801, although the Trinity College records say about 1799.  Probate was granted to his father, William Halpin of Castle Forbes, North Wall, Dublin in 1840.

I would like to know more about Castle Forbes as it puts William one street away from George Halpin senior's abode at the North Wall Lighthouse.  One reference (http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books//NorthDub/cosgrave12.html) states that it was about the oldest house in the area.  It was of sufficient note for there now to be a street named after it, Castleforbes Street, which runs one street parallel and west of East Wall Road, between North Wall and Sherriff.

Bill

[BillW]

Halpin Marianne Catherine Born 10-Aug-1847 Madras.

Just reporting this find made notable by the name Marianne.  Can't think whose daughter she would be, though.

Bill.

[BillW]

Halbert, Eaton and Cotter families around Wicklow. 
[James Halpin married Anne Halbert.  Their eldest son was named Eaton Cotter Halpin, born c.1818.]

I have assembled these scattered bits of information so as to have them in the one place.  Much of the following is owed to Julia.

HALBERT
In 1668 Wicklow had about twice as many houses as Arklow, indicating a higher degree of prosperity – 140 houses in Wicklow and 68 in Arklow.  In the civil parish of Wicklow there were 121 houses eligible for hearth money taxes which was assessed on the number of hearths in each building.  Among the prosperous residents of the town were....John Halbert. [Stan O’Reilly, ‘The hearth Money Rolls for the County of Wicklow, 1668’ Wicklow Historical Society]

AD 1743 | here lieth the body of Elinor Halbert & Ann Halbert Novemr 20th 1749 [Church Hill churchyard]

Of the numerous other seats and villas, that add so much to the charms of this delightful district are.... and Kilmullen, of Thos. Halbert, Esq.  The parish comprises two livings, a lay rectory and a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough.  [From:  A Topographical dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, 1837.  Freely available at http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/n.php] under  NEWCASTLE, a parish, in the barony of NEWCASTLE, county of WICKLOW, and province of LEINSTER; containing, with the post-town of Newtown-Mount-Kennedy (which is separately described), 4517 inhabitants, of which number, 130 are in the two villages of Upper and Lower Newcastle.

Dr John Halbert: Folio No 29: 1840/41/42: Vineyards.  Lease No.54  Pd by Miss Halbert for Vineyards.

[Griffith’s Valuations Wicklow County 1854]
Thomas Halbert on lease from Earl Fitzwilliam nearly 140 acres in Kilmullin Townland
Esther Halbert on lease from William H A Holmes over 80 acres in Ballynabarney Townland
Miss Esther Halbert leased to Henry McPhail over 1 acre in Rathnew Parish of Corporation (Rathnew?)


EATON
Here lyeth the bodys of THOMAS & MARTHA EATON & of TANNAT EATON their son who depart’d this life the 30th day of Sepr. 1755 to whose memory this monument is erected.  [Wicklow parish church]

[Griffith’s Valuations for Arklow Town 1854]  Main Street
No.96    Letitia Eaton
No.97   Reverend Richard E Eaton

Addendum to Eaton.  See page 8


COTTER
15th May 1781
On Wednesday evening, the 9th, prisoners in the upper gaol at Wicklow set fire to their straw in the hopes of escaping from their confinement in the confusion which would naturally be a consequence.  In a few minutes the volunteer company of Wicklow foresters were assembled and following the examples of the officers Captain Foulkes and Lieutenant Cotter at the risk of their lives extinguished the flames, which has with alarming violence burst out of the windows, secured nine prisoners who were on the point of escaping and safely lodged them in the lower gaol.  [Found by Cara from records of Wicklow Gaol]

County of Wicklow Infirmary - Names of Governors
No.21  Mr Eaton Cotter (By subscription of 3 guineas per annum)
[Report and Memorial of the Commissioners to the Lords Commissioners 0f Parliament 1808
The Thirty Third Report of the Commissioners of Accounts of Ireland p.100]

Names and Residences of Gentry.  Proceeding from Bray by Sea Road.  (Just before Wicklow) Coalawiney, Eaton Cotter, Esq.  [A Guide to the County of Wicklow by G. N. Wright, 1827, p.172. ]

The principal seats are.... and Coolawinney, of R. Cotter, Esq. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, forming part of the union and corps of the prebend of Wicklow in the cathedral of St. Patrick, Dublin: the tithes amount to £377. 1. 6 1/2.  [From:  A Topographical dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, 1837.  Freely available at http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/n.php] under RATHNEW, a parish and village, in the barony of NEWCASTLE, county of WICKLOW, and province of LEINSTER, at the junction of the roads from Dublin, Rathdrum, and Bray to Wicklow; containing, with the post-town of Ashford and village of Bolinalea (both separately described), 3718 inhabitants, of which number, 544 are in the village of Rathnew.

Bill

[BillW]

In a book about the history of ireland to the Act of Union, lists are published of “The original Red list of the Members who Voted against the Union in 1799 and 1800”, and the “Original Black List of those who Voted For the Union in 1799 and 1800”
In the latter list , on page 193, are

Sir J Cotter, privately bought over by cash
R. Cotter.

I believe these Cotters were from County Cork and the R Cotter was Rogerson Cotter, whose mother was Arabella Rogerson who married Sir James Cotter.

Bill.

[Diane Carruthers]

Hi

A database on the British Library website has :

March 21, 1839
Sacred to the memory of Captain Richard Halpin, H.M. 49th Regt. who departed this life March 21, 1839, aged 38 years; This Tomb is erected by his brother officers as a token of their high esteem; Dinapore Bengal Obituary p. 34 Burial

Diane

It appears that a raft of the William Halpin family died in North London in the 1860s and possibly all were buried at the then fairly new Kensal Green Cemetery.  I have given Ronald a connection there that may assist.   From this news, the possibility of burial records and wills holds potential family information.  These deaths were:

1.   William Halpin buried 31 Dec 1862.  In the Census a year earlier as found by Ronald, he was a Captain on half pay, living at 39 Leinster Square, Bayswater and, at age 84, still proudly avowing his birth in Wicklow (about 1777).   Living there with him were the following:

2.   Sophia Halpin died on 31st Oct or Nov 1862 (before her father) at Leinster Square.  There was a death notice in the Times: ‘On 31st inst at 3? Leinster-square W, Sophia, youngest daughter of Captain William Hamilton.’

3.   William Halpin buried 28th April 1865. He died at 54 Belsize Road, Hampstead.  Belsize Square, I think, was the address 20 years later of Rev Robert Crawford Halpin.  Had the family acquired property there as early as the 1860s?  William had retired in 1861 as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Madras Native Infantry upon which he was awarded the honorary rank of Major General.

4.   Anna Halpin.  An Anna Halpin is recorded in FreeBMD as dying in 1867 aged 57 in the Hampstead registration district, the same district as for William above.

The remaining known sibling (other than Robert Crawford, the youngest) was Richard Halpin (from Trinity College entries, the eldest).  Richard Halpin is recorded as a Cornet 8th – 22nd July 1815 in his father’s regiment, the King’s German Legion (aged about 16).  Thereafter, he went up to Trinity in 1818, was awarded his BA in 1822.  It seems he had gone on half pay because we find in the London Gazette the following:  98th Regiment of foot.  ‘To be Ensigns. Cornet Richard Halpin, from half-pay 1st Light Dragoons, King's German Legion.  Dated 7th April 1825....’
I have been able to follow Richard’s trail only to 1833.  From the same source: ‘To be lieutenants Without Purchase.  Ensign Richard Halpin, from the 98th Foot.  Dated 26th April 1828’ [49th Foot].  Then: ‘49th Foot, Lieutenant Richard Halpin to be Captain, by purchase, vice Morris. Dated 13th September 1833’.

If any of the service records of the army officers can be found in the National Archives at Kew, there may be much more information.  Unfortunately Kew is a very long way from me.
Bill