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

[BillW]

Diane, that is a valuable resource because its contents are 30 or 40 years before most comparable directories.  Its head title would have misled me so thank you.  Were there no Halpins (of various spellings) anywhere or just not in Wicklow?  Perhaps frustratingly it does not extend to Queen's or Dublin.
Bill.

[kenneth cooke]

Odd entries for Halpen/Halfpenny

Flax Growers of Ireland 1796:
Monaghan-  Halfpenny- Christy, Nicholas, of Magheracloone;
Henry, Monaghan & Peter, Tedavnet;  Halpen Thomas, Innishkeen
Meath- Halpen James, Oristown

Griffiths Val. ?1850s
Halfpenny Nicholas, Corradooa, Killinkera, Cavan

1641 Rebellion- Co. Louth, names from 1641 Deposition:
Halfpenny William

Marriages from Walker’s Hibernian Mag. 1771-1812:
1.6.1779 Phillip Boylan, Abbey St. &  Mary Halfpenny, Phoenix St. ?Dublin

Documents connected with the City of Kilkenny Militia in the 17th & 18th centuries, by John G.A.Prim-  ‘the troubled period of the wars of James and William’.
A muster of the qualified citizens bearing arms (Oath of Supremacy required, so only Prots.):
“Nicholas Halfpenny was Portreve of Irish Town in 1662” i.e. chief officer or mayor.

The City of Kilkenny then consisted of Irishtown and Englishtown. It is 40 km. from Maryborough.

Ken
 

[kenneth cooke]

Re my posts 143 & earlier-

Great Pulteney St., Westminster, St. James, was laid out during the redevelopment of the Pulteney estate in the early 18th century. Between 20.3.1719 and 27.8.1722, Sir William Pulteney granted 38 leases, all due to expire around 1780, to 20 odd lessees, most of whom were building craftsmen.

No. 40 Great Pulteney St. East side:
60 years from Xmas 1718, lease dated 15.9.1719, Rent £5 p.a. Frontage 19 ft. Lessee Wm.Ludby, citizen & carpenter of St. James. First occupant- Mark Alpen or Halpenn, period of residence 1720-1728. From ‘Survey of London Vol.31 & 32, St. James Westminster Part 2’  F H W Sheppard (general editor) 1963.

‘Our’ Mark Halpenn’s  first child Mary, was baptised at St. Martin in the Fields in 1719. The next four were baptised at St. James, Westminster between 1721 and 1726.
This indicates that it was most likely the same family, who lived in Gt. Pulteney St.  But of course it does not prove that this Mark was Irish, or related to our Halpens.
Ken

[Shanachai]

From the Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal, Saturday April 24th 1731:

The Lady Lawley, Relict of Sir Thomas Lawley, Bart. And Neice of Dr. Bateman, was lately marry’d at Somerset-House Chapel to Mr. Halpen, who formerly kept two Apothecary-Shops at the same Time, one at Tunbridge-Wells, and the other in Town, but has some Time ago left off Business, having had a considerable Fortune fallen to him.

From the 1756 edition of A General Abridgement of Cases in Equity...

(K) Of Suits and Proceedings by and against Baron and Feme; - and also inter se.
1.  The Court was of Opinion, that though a Man could not have a Bill against his Wife for Discovery of his own Estate, yet where before Marriage she enters into Articles concerning her own Estate, she has made herself as a separate Person from her Husband; and she was ordered to answer in a Week’s Time.  East. 1691. Sir Robert Brooks and Lady Brooks, Prec. In Chan. 24.
2.  A Feme Covert may sue her Husband by prochain Amy (a); this agreed to be the Course of the Court.  Hil. 1708. In Casu Kirk and Clark, Prec. In Chan. 275.
(a) Upon a suggestion of ill practice between the husband and the wife’s prochain Amy, a new one was appointed upon his giving a Recognizance to pay the full Costs of any Award.  Halpin and Halpin,  MS. Notes.

From the 1792-93 edition of the above publication we see this added to the MS. Notes – Lady Lawley, alias Halpen and pin, in Seace.’ Bush. Rep. 310. S.C. states it thus: a feme covert brought a bill against her husband by her prochain amy, but having some suspicion that he and prochain amy were in a conspiracy, she moved to change her prochain amy, after there had been a considerable [progress in?] cause.  [A line follows that is generally illegible, but it appears that Lady Lawley was granted a new prochain amy].

From the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, Saturday August 13th 1768:

DIED: At Bath, suddenly, Mark Halpen, Esq; in the 83rd year of his age; he was formerly an apothecary to her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia, married Lady Lawley, relict of the late Sir Thomas Lawley, Bart. and in the wars of 1745, and the last wars, attended the Britannic military hospitals in foreign parts, with great reputation.

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From the London Evening Post, Saturday February 16th 1760:

     His Majesty has been pleased to constitute and appoint Sir Ralph Gore, Bart. to be Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of a Battalion of Foot, to be forthwith raised in Ireland.
     Joseph Lewi Feyrack, Esq., to be Lieutenant Colonel to the said Regiment.
     Peter Labilliere, Esq., to be Major to the said Regiment.
     William and Paul Gore, among many others, listed as Lieutenants in the said Regiment.
     ...Paget Halpen and George Gore (ditto) to be Ensigns in the said Regiment.







From the General Advertiser (1744), Tuesday October 3, 1749:

Dublin, Sept. 26. 
     A few days ago a boy was so severely crushed between the wheels of two carriages in Arran street, that he is since dead.
     Yesterday, the examinations began in Trinity college for three Professorships; one in Physick, a second in Chifurgery (?!) and Midwifery, and a third in Pharmacy and the Materia Medica in the city of Dublin, founded by the late Sir Patrick Dunn.  The following Gentlemen stand candidates, viz. Dr. Stephens. Dr. Hewetson, Dr. Barber, Dr. Relham, Dr. Quin, Dr. McMahon, and Dr. Barry, jun.
     His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has ordered Letters Patent to be made out for presenting the Rev. Mr. George Sandford to the deanery of Ardagh, and the Rev. Mr. George Sandford to the Deanery of Ardagh, and the Rev. Dr. Isaac Mann to the Chantorship of ChristChurch, Dublin, both void by the death of Dean Saurin.
     Last week one John Maxwell was found guilty at the assizes of Trim, for the murder of his own child, and sentenced to be hanged and quartered.
     Saturday last Patrick Lawler was executed at Trim, for the murder of Mr. James Dowdal, and afterwards hung in chains.  It is said he confessed some other murders he had been concerned in, particularly the murder of Mr. Halpen near Blue Bell [Blue Bell is in Inchicor, west Dublin].
     The Amazon ship of war and the Scorpion and Grampus Sloops arrived in Belfast Lough.

[kenneth cooke]

God help us, Ray is back .  And we were having a nice quite time !
Your new post is very interesting. How do you find all this when I can't ?
Anyway, my comments:
Mark H. & Lady Lawley- "lately married", actually a year before, in secret.
"a considerable fortune has fallen to him" His father has died ? (He didn't want to be an apothecary anyway.) If it was Nich Generosus, born abt 1650, his time was due (1731).
Re the case abt Lady L., we need someone to explain the archaic legal jargon.
As I see it, a woman with a significant estate was vulnerable and needed a
protector/guardian/champion. In this case it was her new husband, M. H., himself not entitled to the estate, but she soon lost confidence in him, for obvious reasons. So she had a new guardian appointed (prochain amy= next friend) but he was in cahoots with Halpen.
M.H. died at Bath in 1768 aged 83 (b.1685). He fits in perfectly as a brother of Padgett 1682 (TCD). Our M.H. of Ballymony died after 1761.
Re Paget in the army, we know that he was expected to vote for Sir Ralph Gore in M'borough in 1760, and in return I guess he got  into Gore's battalion.
Ken   

[Shanachai]

Having problems formatting this stuff - hope it's readable.

1806 (6) (Ireland) Report of the commissioners appointed to enquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites, and emoluments, which are or have been lately received in certain public offices in Ireland; and also, to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same; and into the present mode of receiving, collecting, issuing, and accounting for public money in Ireland (p. 350 of 386).

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List of Persons who, having been in the Public Service, receive any Pensions, Annuity,  Emoluments, etc.
at the Time of Resignation.

Right Hon. J. Beresford     First Commissioner of          Length of            Annual            Resigned: 26th
                                              His Majesty’s Revenue.        Service: 32yrs.   Salary: £2000     March 1802*.

Annual amount of other Emoluments, and description thereof: In lieu of furnished House adjoining this Custom house, with Coals, Candles, and other Accommodations, which he had in right of his Office, and had given up on retiring therefrom - £400.  Annual Pension: £2000.

A few places down the list we find:

John Halpin                         Landwaiter,                          L.O.S: 14yrs.       A.S: £45         Resigned: 5th
                                              Custom-house Quay                                                                      Aug. 1795.

Annual amount of other emoluments...: £255 Fees and Emoluments of Office.  Annual Pension: £300.

Robert Owen is also recorded as having served for 41 years as a surveyor, receiving an annual salary of £200, with an unspecified additional salary of £100 per annum.  He retired 15 April 1803 on a cumulative annual pension of about £300.

[On page 276 we find this:]

Report of the Commissioners on Fees, Gratuities, &c. – Customs.

Dock Master     Richard Halpin     Appointed by Commission     Duration of Interest – Pleasure     How Executed – Person     Salaries and Fixed Allowances - £60     Fees - £60
Four Assistants at 2s 2d per day each - £158 3s 4d
Gross Amount of Salaries and fixed Allowances (excluding fees) - £218 3s 4d.

[Very helpfully, for our purposes, this report comes with definitions of the various positions]:

“The Dock Master regulates and appoints the Births for all Ships and Vessels that enter the Custom House Dock, and attends at all times necessary for that purpose.”

“Discharging and Shipping Officers at Out Quays: Surveyor – the surveyor superintends the discharge of timber, deals, coal, salt, bark, &c. Inwards, at the Out Quays, and the shipping and discharging of goods coastways; he also visits the Tidewaiters on duty, and compares their books with the landing orders; he likewise rummages ships, and discharges the Tidewaiters from duty.”

“The Landwaiters discharge the abovementioned Goods Inwards at the Out Quays, and ship and discharge goods coastways.”

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1808 (28) (Ireland) The thirty-third report of the Commissioners of accounts of Ireland (p. 103 of 132).

42.
Queen’s County Infirmiry.
The Governors give an account of the Charges and Discharges of the Infirmiry “for one year to the twenty-fourth day of December one thousand eight hundred and six.”  That account is followed by a numbered list of “Names of Governors and Governesses.”

Governors for life by Subscription.
1.   The Earl of Upper Ossory.
2.   John Fallon, esq.
3.   Thomas Parnell, esq.
4.   Rev. Mr. Avoril.

Governors for one year ending 24th June 1807, as subscribers of one guinea and under twenty guineas (I note only the names that I think may have a bearing on our interests):
2. Anthony Pim.
5. George Gore, esq.
25. Captain Gore.
33. John Halpin, esq.
35. Sir Charles Coote, Bart.
44. Robert Onions.
72. Arthur Parnell, esq.
73. William Parnell, esq.
84. James Pim.
102. Sir C. Coote, Bart.
103. Mrs. C. Coote.
121. Anthony Pim.
122. Mr. Halpin.
137. Lord Castle Coote.
138. Lady Castle Coote.
139. Sir Eyre Coote, K.B.

It then goes on to detail “Particulars of Estates, Property, and Funds”, particulars about patient numbers (ie how many were cured, discharged as incurable, died, eloped or were transferred to “Externs”) and “Number and Names of Officers and Servants”, which are of no relevance to our interests.

1812 (36) (Ireland) The thirty-eighth report of the Commissioners of Accounts of Ireland. (p. 128).

Queen’s County Infirmiry
(most details are exactly as above)
28. Robert Onions
41. John Halpen, esq.
45. Henry Moore, esq.
61. Sir Geo. Pigott, bart.
64. Anthony Pim, esq.
92. George Gore, esq.
99. Sir Erasmus Burrowes, bart.
109. Ja’ Pim, esq.
116. Thomas Parnell, esq.

[Shanachai]

For 1766 Religious Census of Papists & Protestants in County Tipperary –

note the surnames: Solomon Delane (famous landscape painter – dau. Married a Halpin), Nugent, Napper, Evans, Cooper, Edmund (NOTE: John Edmund Halpin), Maunsell, Dr. Edward Moore.

http://www.igp-web.com/tipperary/census1766/religcens2.htm

I'm trying to establish a little database of names in an attempt to recreate the social circles our ancestors must have belonged to.  It's my hope that where these circles meet, or overlap, there we'll find the connections that more fully reveal exactly how the various branches of the Halpin family tree interweave.

[mkent]

I was given the name of this website while I was in Wicklow a few weeks ago. I am the Great Great Niece of Robert Halpin of the Great Eastern and have often thought I must have Halpin relatives somewhere.  My Granmother was Georgiana Halpin, twin daughter of Dr George Halpin, she married Robert Kent and they had 6 sons and 2 daughters, my father was the 5th son.  Her twin sister Ida never marrried, and lived on Church Hill.  When they were 94 a photo of them on their joint birthday party was published in the Irish Times as they were thought to be the oldest living twins in Ireland.  There brother Robert died in Falmouth and the twins had to travel to identify his body.  Another brother, James married Adelaide Maude, and I see from the 1901 cencus that a sister in law of James was Martha Florence Eatton.  I was always told that we were related to the Eatons, but never how.  Also that we were related to the Bayleys of Carlow.  JAmes and |Maude had 3 children, as far as I know.  Raymond, Ernest and Marjorie, when James died Maude took them to America, Ray was the only one to return to Ireland, he married Belle Phibbs daughter of Bertram Phibbs of Wicklow, I saw a suggestion that she was a model but she wasn't, however her sister Clodagh was a well know dress designer.  I would be very interested to see a copy of the Halpin family tree if there is one, and look forward to reading more about the family.

[Shanachai]

     Delighted to have you on board, mkent.  It's uncanny, but less than an hour ago I came across this in my research:

Twins Aged 90 Years.

     90th birthday celebrations of twin sisters Mrs. Georgiana Kent and Miss Ida Halpin, Wicklow.  They recall receiving the first telegram ever sent to Wicklow.  This came from their uncle, Captain Robert C. Halpin, commander of the famous Great Eastern telegraph ship.
- from The Irish times, Tuesday December 21st 1954.

As for a complete family tree, well, that's sort of what we're attempting to put together here.  Bill Webster is making tremendous progress in that direction.  If you send me an email address, I can post you a ton of stuff on the Wicklow Halpins not yet posted on the rootschat site.  Cheers, R.