Marie has said previously that a Bayley family from Moneygrath, Co Carlow, are related to the Wicklow Halpins. Maeve produced a Memorial Card associated with the Halpin family that reads
Anne Bayley, who died at Moneygrath, Myshall, Co Carlow. December 11, 1883. ..prayer
The only Bayley death registered for that period in 1883 is Anne Bayley, death registered at Enniscorthy Wexford, birth, calculated from age at death, 1814. Enniscorthy must have been the nearest registry.
Who was Anne? 1814 puts her just older than James Halpin’s eldest, Eliza born 1816.
In the 1901 and 1911 Censuses, the Bayley/Bailey family is at Moneygrough (Cranemore, Carlow), head Samuel (52 in 1901), wife Rosanna and 8 children, Margaret 23, Rebecca, Abraham, William, Samuel, John, Phoebe and Benjamin 4, COI, R&W.
Samuel Bayley seems to have married in 1877 at Shillelagh. His census age gives a birth about 1849 and a Samuel Griffith Bayley is registered dying in Carlow in 1926 with an indicated year of birth 1849. This still does not get us back to 1814 but it is closer. I wonder if Samuel’s death or marriage certificates might show his parents to try to see how this family is connected with the Halpins. I suppose the above Anne Bayley could have been Samuel’s mother. Is Samuel's middle name, Griffith, a clue?
Footnote. Eliza Halpin’s death seems to be registered in Jan-March 1881, age 65, est birth 1816. Her name is given there as Eliza Louisa. It could have been about that time, when George was constructing the Wicklow lighthouses, that his daughter Louisa came to James and Ann Halpin, married about a year. They later named their 12th child Louisa in 1834, the year we believe George’s (Isabella?) Louisa to have died.
