Halpins of Wicklow - Part 3

[kenneth cooke]

How many Paget Halpens were there ? 
I recently received details of a deed-poll (a one-way affair, not requiring agreement between two or more persons, as with an indented deed):

Halpen/Halpen: 133 220 90485.
Memorial of a Deed Poll dated 11th February 1748 made by Paget Halpen of Hamstead, Co. Dublin, Gent, to Mark Halpen whereby the said PH for the Considerations therein mentioned did bargain sell assign transfer and make over unto the said MH all his right and interest in - and to his leasehold interest in - Hamstead and all the household goods in his house in Hamstead and to all other reale (sic) and personal effects, together with all the money due and owing to him.  To hold all and singular the said several granted premises unto the said Mark Halpen...
Wit. by William Clarke, Edward Butler, Attorney at Law and Thos. Fitzmaurice, Clerk to the said E. Butler.

In 1748, our Paget was still a boy. There must have been another, older Paget, who signed over his property in Hamstead, Dublin, to a Mark Halpen.
Do we have a candidate ? Yes, we do. It is Padget Halfpenny, born 1682, son of Nicholas of Maryborough. He would have been 66 years old in 1748.

It appears therefore, that Mark was Paget’s son, and the second Paget was Mark’s son, probably the eldest, as he later inherited Mark’s property of Ballynamony.

Nicholas abt. 1650 >  Padget 1682 >  Mark abt. 1710 >  Paget abt. 1743

Mark’s children included Elizabeth, abt. 1755, and perhaps Philip and Patrick.

Paget (2) and his wife Margaret Delane (mar.1794) were legally separated in 1812.
Later, in 1824, a third Paget Halpen was noted as a coastal passenger in the USA. He was 29, so born about 1795. No country of birth is shown, but he would certainly fit in as a son of Paget and Margaret.

[kenneth cooke]

I have just found a reference on Family Search (LDS) to the Probate of Paget Halpin (sic) in
Co. Laois-
Ireland, Landed Estate Court Files 1850-1885
May-June 1856 Probate Paget Halpin, Laois Doc. 018, Vol. 040

The image should have been available, but after registering, I was told that it was not.
Any ideas on how to view the details of this probate ?
Ken

[kenneth cooke]

Who is this Paget Halpin who died in 1856 ?
Did PH (3) return from the USA ? Or did he die there and his estate in Ireland was settled ?
 

[kenneth cooke]

Could be a coincidence- the last time that Paget was mentioned in the USA still living was in 1856.
From 1846 to 1856 he is mentioned five times when he acquired land in Texas, a total of about 3000 acres, from land 'freed' from Mexico.
He is only mentioned once more, in the Texas Land Extracts in 1904- 'the heirs of Paget Halpin'.
Hopefully, the details of the probate in Co. Laois from 1856 will shed more light on Paget.

[kenneth cooke]

The Apothecary Connection

Mark Halpen (1) 1684-1767, an Irish apothecary had shops in Tunbridge and London.

In 1771 Mark Halpen (2), gentleman of Ballynamoney leased a tenement in Maryborough town, from the estate of Wm Gorman, an apothecary.

In 1777 Mark’s daughter Elizabeth married Eugene Sweny, a Druggist of Dublin.

Eugene’s grandson, Dr. Mark Sweny, opened a chemist shop at 1 Lincoln Pl. Dublin, which was carried on by his son, Fredk. Wm. Sweny until 1924.

[kenneth cooke]

Halpen of Maryborough

Nicholas ‘Generosus’ of Maryborough c.1650
_____l____________________________________________
Paget (1) 1682- fl.1748             Mark (1) 1684-1768 (to England)
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Mark (2) c.1710 of Ballynamony
______l______________________________________________________
Paget (2) c.1742- 1816    ?Phillip      ?Patrick    Elizabeth c. 1755
m.1794 M.Delane                                             m.1777 Eugene Sweny
          l                                     
Paget (3) 1795- ?1856             
to USA                                                       

Mark Halpen (1) (1684-1768) 

Registry of Deeds Ireland- Deed of Mortgage Vol.2, Page 549, Memorial No. 625 of 30 July 1709 by Mark Hallpen (no details yet)

From British History Online:
Calendar of Treasury Books by Shaw & Slingsby editors, 1955, Vol. 28, 1714  Declared accounts: Army- Money paid for several ordinary and extraordinary services- Pay of the officers at the hospital at Dunkirk:
Mark Halpen and Robert Taylor, at 5 s. a day as Apothecary's mates, 25.12.1713 to 24.6.1714- Total £91  (Total at Dunkirk £8226.0.9) (Master Apoth. 10s/day, Physicians 20s/day)
Mark Halpen would have been 30 years old then.

Then, on 22 February 1730 a Mark Halpenn married an older woman, Elizabeth Lawley, at Somerset House, Westminster. She was the widow of Baronet Lawley of Spoonhill, Shropshire, who had died just three weeks earlier. Halpenn was Irish, and had previously been an apothecary. (As Lady Lawley’s husband, he gains a  mention in ‘The English Baronetage’ from 1741 to 1815, as Halpen[n], Halfpenn & Halfpenny).

From the Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal, Saturday April 24th 1731:
The Lady Lawley, Relict of Sir Thomas Lawley, Bart. And Niece 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.

He had to agree to keep the marriage secret for one year, while she wore her widow’s weeds. As her husband, he had control over her estates and personal assets. It seems that they soon fell out, and to complicate matters, her stepson, the new baronet, took steps to gain control of his father’s estate. The obvious first step for the courts was to get Halpen out of the way.
At the court of the Exchequer, on 18.11.1733, it was decreed that Halpen should convey the rights
over Lady Lawley’s estate to two trustees, named by her.

In 1732 Mark Halpen, gent, subscribed to ‘Royal Genealogies, or The General Tables of Emperors,
Kings and Princes, from Adam to These Times’ 1732, James Anderson, London. Subject- 'History'
 
On 11.9.1734, a Mark Halpen was convicted at the Old Bailey for assault and breaking the peace at
the office of the Exchequer some months earlier, after a dispute when his demands for money were rejected. It is evident that he was an Irishman, and proud of it. He was ordered to pay a fine of £5.

Next he appealed to the House of Lords to reverse the decree from the Exchequer, but on 11.2.1735, the decree was confirmed, and Halpen’s appeal dismissed.  He and Lady Lawley had separated by then.  She made her will on 27 Jan. 1739, and died the same year. The will was read in 1740. She left her husband Mark Halpenn the sum of one shilling.

From church records, St. Pancras Old Church, Westminster, London:
Mark Halpen, buried 9 August 1767

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.  (Born abt 1684)

Princess Amelia (1711-1786), the second daughter of George ll was a sickly child but healthy as an adult. In 1722 her mother had her inoculated against smallpox, by ‘variolation’.  She never married.

[kenneth cooke]

Mark Halpen (2)
A Handlist of Voters of Maryborough of 1760- Mark Halpen, Ballymony "under Mr. Westenraa’s influence", also signed petition supporting John Parnell. (Paget was also on the Voter’s List)

Deed of Lease & Release, signed & dated 3.5.1771
From John Strange to Mark Halpen, Gentleman of Ballynamoney, Q.Co.  A Tenement in Maryborough town, previously owned by William Gorman, uncle of the vendor, apothecary of M’borough, deceased.

Three Paget Halpens
Paget (1)

Registry of Kilkenny School (Kilkenny) 1685-1800 by T.U. Sadleir 1924:
Halfpenny Padget, 13 yrs, Aug 31 1696 (son of Nicholas of Queens Co.)  [born Sep/Oct 1682]

From Alumni Dublinenses (Trinity College):
HALPENNY, PAGITT, Pen (Dr Hinton, Queen's Co.), Nov 1, 1698, aged 16;  son of Nicholas, Generosus; b. Queen's Co. (1682),[Pensioner=paid own fees; teacher’s name in brackets; generosus=gentleman]

Indented Deed Vol.57, Page 38, Memorial No.37082 of 28.2.1727 Pageit Halfpenny, Gent, of Drumcondra, Dublin- ‘bought some of the seized property’.

Halpen/Halpen: 133 220 90485.
Memorial of a Deed Poll dated 11th February 1748 made by Paget Halpen of Hamstead, Co. Dublin, Gent, to Mark Halpen whereby the said PH for the Considerations therein mentioned did bargain sell assign transfer and make over unto the said MH all his right and interest in - and to his leasehold interest in - Hamstead and all the household goods in his house in Hamstead and to all other real and personal effects, together with all the money due and owing to him.

Paget (2)

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.
Paget Halpen and George Gore to be Ensigns in the said Regiment.

A Handlist of Voters of Maryborough of 1760 shows a Pagett Halpen- ‘in the army’. He was expected to vote for Mr. Westenraa (as was Mark Halpen) and Sir Ralph Gore.

A Lieut. Halpen was a passenger on the packet from Holyhead which arrived in Dublin, reported in Freeman’s Journal on 10.9.1763.
 
On the Army List of 1778 there was a Paget Halpen of Maryborough, a lieutenant on half pay (reserve) in the 124th Foot Regt.

1801 Army List (Page 504) On the Irish Half-Pay: 124th Foot, Disbanded 1763, Lieut Paget Halpen.

Later there was a copper engraver of the same name, of 44 Mecklenburg St., listed from about 1790-1810, one of several Dublin engravers named Halpen or Halpin.  He is probably the same one who married Margaret Delane at St. James, Dublin on 9 May 1794-   Dublin Prerogative Marriage Licenses- Halpin Paget of Maryboro Queens Co. and Margaret Delane

[kenneth cooke]

Halpen/Halpin Engravers:
Paget, active 1792-1810, 44 Meck. St. 1796-1800
Philip,                                 “     “      “   1792-1795
Patrick,  “      1757- ?d.1807 Blackamoor Yard -1771-  35 Temple Bar 1774-1783
Patrick was also an ‘assistant teller’, then ‘Teller of Stamps’.

In 1807 Paget Halpin of Maryborough, Queen's County received £43-9-9d for damages he sustained by a new road [Accounts presented to the House of Commons of the Presentments passed by the Grand Jury of Ireland, at the Summer Assizes].

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers dated 1812 - The second part of the eleventh report of  the commissioners appointed to enquire into fees, etc... .
Under the subheading Arrears and Balances: Stamp Office Queen's County: "4th July 1786.  Paget Halpin, Esq. Ballynamoney, Queen's County; Boys Smith, Surgeon, Maryborough." 
It seems Smith and Halpin owed £23 14 9..."The Distributor and Boys Smith, one of his sureties, are both dead, without leaving property.  Mr. Paget Halpen, the other surety, is solvent."

Indented deed of annuity dated 31st October 1812 concerning the separation of Paget Halpin, of Maryborough, Queen’s County, Esq., and Margaret (Delane) Halpin of the city of Dublin, wife to said Paget Halpin. Settlement collateral appears to be “all of the Town and Lands of Ballinamoney/ Ballinamona, Ballyclider and Ballymackin, situate in the Barony of Maryborough in Queen’s County". 

Paget (3)
Another Paget Halpen, aged 29, arrived in New York on the schooner ‘Hope Mary Ann’ from New Orleans, Louisiana on 3.5.1824 (born abt 1795). No birthplace was shown, but he was a US citizen and a ‘shugar planter’. Present and intended residence - New Orleans. Only other passengers were Wm. Leonard, 29, farmer, also of New Orleans, and Robt O’Reilly,16, planter, from Ireland. 
 
A Paget Halpen next appears back in Louisiana. He was one of seven signatories to a public  notice in the Baton Rouge Gazette, of 17.3.1827.  It read: “Charles Ash Mix is declared a liar, swindler and a villain; beware of him.” 

In the adjoining territory of Texas on 16 March 1839, Paget Halpen was one of 28 men at a meeting to establish Houston’s first Episcopalian church. (From ‘Houston, the Unknown City’ 1991 by Marguerite Johnston). Then, in Sept. the same year his name is found on the tax list in the Texas Morning Star as owing $13.75 to the City of Houston.
He is also on a list of men claiming a state pension for having fought in the war to ‘free’ Texas-‘Survivors of the Revolution which separated Texas from Mexico, 1835-42’.

P.Halpen was a passenger on the schooner 'Hornet' from Galveston, Texas, arriving New Orleans on 20.10.1840

Later there are at least five entries in the Texas Land Titles Abstracts, from 1846 to 1856, and then one for “the heirs of Paget Halpin” in 1906.

Reference on Family Search (LDS) to the Probate of Paget Halpin (sic) in Co. Laois-
Ireland, Landed Estate Court Files 1850-1885
May-June 1856 Probate Paget Halpin, Laois Doc. 018, Vol. 040
Did Paget (3) return from the USA ? Or did he die there, and does the above refer to the settlement of his estate in Ireland ?

[tompion]

London Gazette 15 March 1878: Award of a patent to Druitt Halpin, of Old Charlton, in the County of Kent for the invention of 'improvements in apparatus for recovering sunken vessels and other purposes'.

Apologies if this has been noted before.