Halpins of Wicklow - Part 3

[Greg Frauenhoff]

Here is a photo of Thomas Matthew Halpin, the revolutionary.  My guess is that it dates to about 1870.

[Shanachai]

Wonderful, Mr. Frauenhoff.  What a handsome man your forebear was.  An invaluable contribution to the Halpin thread.  Thanks again.

[Lisa Duggan l3]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful photo of my great great uncle. Very happy to see the man that managed to charm and marry both of my great great aunts. Kate and Mary Anne Keely. Lisa Duggan gg grandaughter of Julia Keely.

[tompion]

Any of you direct descendents of William Henry Halpin, the editor of the Cheltenham Mail in the 1820’s, and son of William Henry Halpin and Marianne Crosthwaite?

If so, you might want to buy a first edition (presumably the only edition) of his book, publshed in 1820 (£50) - I suspect it is scarce - available at www.abebooks.co.uk:    

The Cheltenham mail bag; or, letters from Gloucestershire
Halpin, William Henry
Bookseller: Ximenes Rare Books Inc., ABAA, ABA, ILAB (Kempsford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom)
Bookseller Rating: 5-star rating
Quantity Available: 1

Book Description: London, 1820. [Halpin, William Henry.] The Cheltenham mail bag; or, letters from Gloucestershire. Edited by Peter Quince, the younger [pseud]. London: John Warren, 1820. viii, 137 pp. Sm. 8vo, contemporary cloth. First edition. Humorous verse about life in a spa town, in the manner of Thomas Moore, whose poems about the Fudge family are acknowledged in the preface. A very good copy. Jackson, p. 452; CBEL IV (3), 346. Bookseller Inventory # CL330

Yous Brian

[BillW]

No.5476
GREHAM Family Vault

No.5477
Front of headstone of number 5476:   Sacred | To the Memory | of | The Revd. JOHN GREHAM LL.D. | formerly Head Master of the | Waterford Endowed and Enniskillen | Royal Schools | who died at No 7 Marine Terrace | Kingstown | the 21st of February 1873 | aged 79 years | Benevolent charitable and generous | an accomplished and precise scholar | a zealous and skilful teacher | His aim was ever while building on | Christ as the chief cornerstone | to expand the intellect of youth | and fortify the character| with those principles of knowledge | with which | his own gifted and pious mind | was so richly stored |"Take fast hold of instruction | let her not go, keep her, for | she is thy life" Proverbs IV. 12

No.5478
Left side of number 5476:  and also | In Memory of | NICHOLAS | JOHN HALPIN | who died on the | 25th day of November 1891 | aged 73 years | and of | REBECCA | HALPIN | his wife | who died on the | 30th day of | January 1903 | aged 72 years

The marvellous work of Yvonne Russell to photograph and record Irish headstones is acknowledged, and its repository, the Irish Genealogical Project.  This excerpt can be found at http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/1headstones/mt-jerome37.txt along with a link to the photograph of the inscriptions at Mt Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.

I assume this Rev John Greham was Ann Greham’s brother and thus the Rev NJ Halpin’s brother-in-law.  Who were their parents?

[BillW]

No.256
Sacred | to the Memory of | EMILY GRIFFITHS | who died November 2 1901 | "Thy Will be Done" | In Loving Memory of | STOPFORD R. A. HALPIN | died Jan 29 1908 | "Thy Will be Done" | also his mother GERALDINE | dearly loved wife of STOPFORD J. HALPIN | died Vancouver B.C. March 1st 1922
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(Inscribed on side of Headstone) Also her son | LEWIS GRIFFITHS | died 14th Jan. 1923 | aged 70 | "Till He come" | STOPFORD J. HALPIN | died Jan. 22 1944 | Vancouver B.C.

With the same acknowledgements as for my last, the link to the above at http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/1headstones/deansgrange-s02.txt.  The photos here were taken by Joyce Tunstead, who is also familiar with Wicklow Church’s graveyard.

Forgive me if I have posted this before.  Stopford Richard Arthur Halpin above was buried at Deansgrange Cemetery (near Kingstown) aged about 13.  He was a grandson of Dr Stopford Halpin of Arklow and son of Stopford John Halpin and Geraldine Bond, both named here and both of whom died in Vancouver BC.

Did Stopford and Geraldine have any more children besides Louise Frances, whom I have recorded as unmarried and dying in Vancouver in 1977?  Was Geraldine related to the Swinton Henry Bond, son of Joseph Bond, who in 1882, of 57 York Road Kingstown, married Mary Anne Halpin, daughter of Sarah Gregg and Richard Mathews Halpin, brother of Dr Stopford Halpin of Arklow?

But who were Emily Griffiths and her son Lewis?  From the photo, there are actually two separate inscriptions, the Griffiths one on a stone above the Halpin stone.  And it does not show if the side inscriptions are also separated this way.

I think the connection may be with the Bond Family.  In the 1901 Census, at Upper Glenageary Road Kingstown, were Lewis E Griffiths 48 and family showing his mother Emily to be a widow aged 79 (b.c. 1822), Lewis born in England, Georgina 37 his wife, lady born Co Westmeath, and a visitor is Elizabeth Bond, widow 59 born Co Cavan (c. 1842).  Could this Elizabeth’s late husband have been Joseph Bond?  And was she the mother of Geraldine, Georgina and Swinton?  Georgina most likely was Lewis Griffiths’ second wife as his eldest son was only 13 years her junior.

[BillW]

HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., tide surveyor~Dublin Almanac~1834
HALPIN~Richard~Howth~Dublin Almanac~1836
HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., tide surveyor~Dublin Almanac~1837
HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., tide surveyor and harbour master~Dublin Almanac~1843
HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., harbour master~Thom's Irish Almanac & Official Directory~1849
HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., harbour master~Thom's Irish Almanac & Official Directory~1851
HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., harbour master~Thom's Irish Almanac & Official Directory~1852
HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., harbour master~Thom's Irish Almanac & Official Directory~1853
HALPIN~Richard~Howth, Esq., harbour master~Thom's Irish Almanac & Official Directory~1855
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chrisu/howth/howth_dir2.htm]

Griffiths Valuation.  Parish of Howth.  1850
Primary Valuation of Tenements
No. On Map.  1 - Tenements   
No. 186      Harbour Commis.   24 Perches
No.189      Howth Harb Com.   12 Perches
No.203/4      Ballast Board         Value £12/17
No.206      Richard Halpin         Value £8
No.213      Board of Works   1 rood 23 p
No.214      Rev. John Gregg    29 perches   Value £17/15
End of tenements
No. On Map. 26b(or c)
Richard Halpin   30 Perches, no building      Value 11/-      Halfway to Lighthouse
(These are only Griffiths Valuation listings of a Richard Halpin anywhere)
(A Rev John Gregg became COI Bishop of Cork in 1862.  Sarah Gregg, daughter of Edward Henry Gregg, merchant of Bridge Street Wicklow, married Richard Mathews Halpin 1852.)

April 30, Richard Halpin, of Howth, co. Dublin, late surveyor in her majesty's customs.
[Cork Examiner  May 9 1855, p.2.  Deaths]

[BillW]

Dec. 31, 1862
  On the 26th inst., at 39, Leinster-square, Bayswater, W., Capt. Wm.
Halpin, late 1st Heavy Dragoons, King's German Legion.

April 28, 1865
  On the 25th inst., at 54, Belsize-park, London, Major-General Wm. Halpin, of H.M. Madras Army, aged 60

Jan. 31, 1862
  On the 23rd inst., at her residence, Summer-hill, Dublin, Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late Robert Crosthwaite, Esq., of Carlow.
(I think that these Crosthwaites were large scale millers in Bagenalstown, Co Carlow.)
[All extracts from the Cork Examiner]

[BillW]

A long time ago, I think either Brian or Diane supplied that Alfred Walter Charles Halpin, 4th child of NJ Halpin and Rebecca Doherty, had died without issue in Australia.  I don't know if they have since found anything further.  However, looking for something else, I noticed his 1855 Dublin baptism and, following the trail, found his death in the NSW indexes.  He died in 1907 in the Burwood distict of Sydney.  Grant of application for probate was reported 2/3/1907.  Being not far from my Halpins, I am intrigued if they were ever in touch.
Bill.