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BillW
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Quite an extraordinarily fine response, Raymond. I see that the future of our Halpin research is in fine hands and, unfortunately, you may have even more time for it, but hopefully not for long.
I will briefly respond on about 3 matters. I have been in contact with Turtle Bunbury on not only Halpin matters. I have connections into Watters, Burgess and Malone families in Co Carlow, where Turtle's Bunbury family is historically based and these families are 3 times connected to my Halpins. I support your pointing to Turtle's online account of the Halpins' involvement with Dublin's Docklands (above) and commend acquiring his new book on this.
Regarding Oswald, I believe that name may prove eventually to be a clue to either an earlier Halpin or to someone in George senior's wife Elizabeth's family. We don't yet know Elizabeth's maiden surname. Turtle kindly brought to my attention the following: LT. OSWALD HALPIN (1810- - 1834). George junior may have had a brother, Oswald Halpin, registered as 'Pen (Mr Baillie), July 4, 1825' in the Alumni Dublinenses, 1846. Oswald was born in Dublin in 1810, the son 'of George, Generosus'. The Calcutta Christian Observer 1834 (p. 536) notes the death on August 14th of Lieutenant Oswald Halpin, 7th Regiment Bombay NI, aged 25 years.
Oswald thereafter became the middle name of George junior's eldest son (William Oswald Halpin (1840 - 1908)) who settled in a lovely house at Foxrock, and then of this William's second son, William Oswald Halpin (1886 - 1918). It was this second William Oswald who, as part of the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the 4th Hussars was killed at Caix, I believe, and is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves at Villers Brettoneux in the Somme.
While on this family, William Oswald Halpin (the father) had two sons, both of whom graduated from Trinity College as doctors. Imagine how proud he and his wife (Anna Maria Burgess from Carlow) would have been in these boys' accomplishments. Well, as we see above, their younger son's life was snuffed out early in WW1. The elder of their two children, (of course) George Halpin set up private practice near Reading in England and had a son and a daughter. His daughter is still alive aged about 95 but childless. His son, of course George Halpin, again was set on a stellar career, a graduate of Cambridge University, but he was killed in WW2 while a Captain in the Royal Army Service Corps and is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave at Alexandria in Egypt. That senior line of the George Halpin family will die out with his sister.
Finally for the moment, coming from where you do, Raymond, you may be able to shed some light on where George Halpin senior lived. In Dublin directories of the last decade before George died in 1854, his address is given as North Wall Lighthouse.
From anything I have been able to discover, the North Wall Lighthouse was moved when the North Wall was extended. Do you have any clues about this from personal knowledge or is it something that you may be able to discover. This location puts him not far from your roots, if I am right.
His abode is confirmed by the records at Mount Jerome Cemetery where George senior was buried on 12th July 1854. I quote: 1854. Burial number 470/12328; George Halpin; abode North Wall; buried July 12; (cause of death blank); from what Parish removed St Thomas; mode of burial Vault; place 6/137; number of Grant of Perpetuity 1415P; attestation Johnstone, Henry Digges undertaker.
By the way, successive family visitors from Australia have never been able to locate his gravestone or, as the above states, vault. It probably needed more time than they had to spare.
Raymond, we look further earnestly to your ongoing researches.
Thanks and regards
Bill Webster
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Raymond, Bill again. I printed out your multi page response and it was easier to follow it that way than on-screen. From this, I just wanted to further take up the references to 'North Bull wall, which was "built by your great uncle George"'.
In the reference to George senior's burial in my earlier post, when I was advised of the burial register entry, I recorded the following comment: The caretaker, Mt Jerome Cemetery, notes: 'George Halpin was responsible for Bull Island, Liffey Brick Wall, Liffey bridges'. (Whether this was actually noted in the burial register or this was just a comment to me by a long serving servant at Mount Jerome I can't say.)
It is not unexpected that George Halpin was involved with Bull Island; that was his profession. But George died in 1854 aged 75 and it would be a long stretch for him to be your actual great uncle, presumably your father's uncle. George Halpin junior would have made more sense but I get the impression that if junior was involved with Bull Island it would only have been to further his father's works.
However, I find it a powerful remark for your father to have made. Perhaps he was right except in leaving out a 'great', as in great great uncle. Is it possible that your grandfather or great grandfather Halpin could have been a brother of George? What would their names have been? It would be marvellous to have you as a cousin.
My new found Halpin cousin in Western Australia, Kim Mettam (found through these pages), has a memory passed down from a relative who was taken to Ireland as a child in the 1930s that they visited a Halpin who had a shoe factory in the docks area. Does this mean anything to you?
50 years or so ago he remembers being told as a young child about his relative Captain Robert Halpin and other relatives who worked on the ship Great Eastern. Could that refer to your great grandfather Edwin working with telegraphy? As you rightly say today, it is now a question of working from lore to fact.
Many of the Halpin names that you have been entertaining do not resonate in George's family. We do not have Nicholas or John or Edwin or Charles or Ralph. There are William and George, of course, George junior's 3rd son was Robert and then Alfred, and with others, George and Alfred keep recurring.
But then again, as you say, George reportedly wanted to differentiate himself from the rest of his family, and perhaps these different names were deliberate (and patriotic, for British advancement?).
Also, in passing, you refer to the upheavals in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars and in a slight way this brings me to George junior's wife, JULIA VILLIERS. George and Julia seem to have had an unconventional partnership, shall we say. Together they had nine children, at least two of whom died in infancy. I was at first confused that in their burial plot at Mount Jerome are recorded two infants named Villiers. But it now seems that George and Julia were not married and that all their children were baptised Villiers.
George junior died in 1869 aged 65 and his civil death record states that he had suffered paralysis for 5 years and disease of the brain (strokes?) of long standing. In his will drawn up 4 years before his death, in 1865, he refers to: "my son Wm Oswald Villiers, George Villiers, Annie Caroline Villiers and Louisa Villiers". And he goes on: "It is my wish and desire that my said sons and unmarried daughters should severally take and use my Surname." That was dated 21 October 1865. In the will he states that he and Julia were married on or about the 18th October 1865 (remarried?).
We have so far not been able to find Julia Villiers' origins. It has been suggested that she came from a Hugenot family. By all accounts she was haughty and difficult. The ancestor of my cousin Kim Mettam and myself, George Halpin (younger brother of the first William Oswald), emigrated to New South Wales after first trying America and South Africa. It is reported in this family that his mother Julia never accepted George's wife, Annie Watters, a farmer's daughter. Julia apparently felt that George had married beneath the family or that Annie was uncultured and she repeatedly criticised them, even across the oceans. Even so, young George took his father's name Halpin and named his last daughter born in Ireland in 1882 Julia, my mother's mother. Julia's brothers on either side of her were Alfred and George Sydney, born 1880 in Dublin and 1884 in Sydney.
But our question remains, where did Julia Villiers, my great grandmother come from? Could she have been French? She died at Foxrock in 1889 reported to be aged 74.
Raymond, good hunting,
Bill.
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The following is about Dr RICHARD F B HALPIN (1858 - 1903) of Arklow, Wicklow, and is taken from the British Medical Journal, Nov 7, 1903, p.1246
(http://www.bmj.com/cgi/issue_pdf/admin_pdf/2/2236.pdf)
IT was with deep regret that the profession and the public
generally in County Wicklow heard of the death of Dr.
RICHARD F. B. HALPIN, which occurred at his residence,
Ferrybank, Arklow, on October 19th. Dr. Halpin got a
severe wetting while seeing a patient on the night of October
12th, pneumonia setting in two days afterwards. He progressed
favourably for some days, when symptoms of heart
failure supervened, and despite all that medical skill and
careful nursing could do he succumbed on the sixth day. Dr.
Halpin was in his 45th year. He pursued his medical studies
in London, becoming a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
in I883, and afterwards obtaining the Licence of the
Royal College of Physicians, Ireland. He was for some time
house physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest,
and afterwards surgeon in the service of the Eastern Telegraph Company, of which his uncle the late distinguished
Captain R. C. Halpin, was the marine superintendent in
London. In 1885 he settled down in his native town of Arklow,
succeeding to the very extensive practice of his father,
the late Dr. Stopford Halpin, in addition to holding many
public appointments, including that of physician to Arklow
Fever Hospital, of surgeon and agent to H.M. Coastguards, and
of medical attendant Royal Irish Constabulary. He was held in
high esteem by both rich and poor, and the large attendance
at his funeral on October 22nd was in itself sufficient evidence
of his popularity, the predominant feeling in the breasts of
all being "that a thorough gentleman and an ornament to
his profession " had passed from amongst them. Dr. Halpin
leaves behind him three children and a widowed mother,
with whom sincere sympathy is felt.
I came to search for this man because someone had sent me a photo of a gravestone at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, knowing that I was searching for a Halpin burial there. It had initially been erected by him for his wife Bessie in 1896. I will try to attach this photo but please let me know if you need a transcript.
Bill Webster
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For what its worth;
BYRNE, EDWARD. Rank: Temp 2Lt. Regiment or Service: Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry. Unit; 6th Battalion. 23-August-1917. Killed in Action. Supplementary information from De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour; Eldest son of the late Henry Byrne, of Dunlavin, County Wicklow, by his wife, Mary daughter of Andrew Halpin and nephew of Patrick Byrne Ex-Superintendant of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, born in Dunlavin, County Wicklow, 8th Dec, 1886. Educated De La Salle College, Waterford; Leeds University and London University, was subsequently employed as Teacher under London City Council. Gazetted, 2nd Lieutenant, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry from the London University, O. T. C. 9th Oct 1915, trained at Weymouth and Wareham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 9th Sept, 1916, took part in the fighting on the Somme, the battle of Arras and the fighting around Ypres. Was killed in action at Inverness Copse 23rd August, 1917, while leading his platoon into action. His Colonel wrote “He was killed instantaneously by a rifle bullet through the head whilst leading his platoon very gallantly. His loss is mourned by all ranks, by whom he was universally liked and admired. Grave or Memorial Reference: He has no known grave but is listed on Panel 80 to 82 and 163A on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
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Thankyou kindly, Bill. And thank you too, "enfield", for posting that death notice and details. Such things help convey the true extent of the losses inflicted on families by the two world wars. Bill, I'll try to answer your questions as quickly as I can. I've been banging away at the issue of the Halpins for a while, and keep running into the same difficulties - all caused by the paucity of official records. Whatever future searches reveal about our respective families, whether they prove connected by blood ties or not, the exchange of information helps to fill what can be exasperating blanks in a family's recollection of itself. The obit you've posted is terrific stuff, not only for the way it helps to set the record straight, but for the sense it can give of a man's personal character and the opinion his community had of him. Later obituaries are pretty poor stuff by comparison. As for that fascinating line in George jnr's will - that strikes me as very peculiar. It really does seem that the George's snr and jnr had real misgivings about the Halpin name, so much so that they believed, at least for a while, that by using it their children might in some way harm their prospects. Very puzzling. If you can find your way to the archives at The Times (they should be online), you will find a report about "The Sinking of the Custom House Quay" (Oct 19 1844), which describes how George 'saved the day'...
I didn't have the time to send you all I wanted to, Bill - the internet cafe shut much earlier than I expected it to. Anyhow, here it is now. I'll leave it up for a few days, until you get a chance to copy it. After that I'll take it down and clear the way for something a little more specific to the Wicklow clan.
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Bill, I’ve posted extracts of a few newsworthy items that should be included in your area of interest, since they touch on George senior’s private affairs, and may shed some light on what motivated the inner family tensions that appear to have affected Julia’s views of her in-laws. Class was no doubt a factor in her judgement of others, but there may have been another factor at play too. See what you think:
I’ve forgotten the source of this notification, so I’ll quote it briefly and post the exact reference another time –
LANDED ESTATES COURT, IRELAND. GENERAL NOTICE TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, In re Elizabeth Hanratty and James Hanratty, Owners; Exparte John Frederick Knipe and Lucy Knipe, his Wife, Petitioners. Take Notice, that on the 7th day of May, 1859, an order was made by the said Court for a sale of the...following...: The Houses and Premises numbered 1,2 and 3, Whitworth-row, in the City of Dublin, held under several leases, each bearing date the 3rd of April 1821, from George Halpin to John Read, for the several terms of 450 years; the Houses and Premises numbered 8, and 9 Coburgh-place, in the City of Dublin, each held under lease bearing date of 3rd day of April 1821, from the said George Halpin to the said John Reid, for the like term of 450 years; the House and Premises no. 78 Lower Macklenburgh-street, in the city of Dublin, held under lease dated the 11th day of May, 1818, from George Perrin [an alias?] to John Read, for lives renewable for ever.[...].the owners of any lands having any common boundary with the lands mentioned in this notice are recommended to cause an appearance to be entered for the purpose of being served with notice of any survey by which said common boundary is to be ascertained.[...].Dated this 27th day of May 1859. James McDonnell, Examiner.
Didn’t George snr die in 1859? At any rate, there’s more, advertised some 20 years later:
From the Freeman’s Journal, Sat. July 9 1870 – IN CHANCERY. VICE CHANCELLOR. To all persons concerned: In the matter of the Act 19 and 20 Victoria chap. 120, intituled “An Act to Facilitate Leases and Sales of Settled Estates”; and of the Act 21 and 22 Victoria, chap. 77, intituled “An Act to Amend and Extend the Settled Estates Act of 1856”...[it goes on for a bit, employing this sort of legalese, so I’ll skip ahead]...and in the matter of the several lots and pieces of ground portions of the North-Strand, in the Parishes of Saint Thomas and Saint George, in the County of the City of Dublin, following (that is to say), portion of acre Lot Number 46, abutting on Seville-place, and another portion of the same lot abutting on a lane off Oriel-street.[...].being parts of the estates comprised in the settlement executed on the marriage of George Halpin [italics mine], now deceased, with Julia Halpin, otherwise Villiers, and dated the 18th day of October, 1865.
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2a. cont. Pursuant to the above-mentioned acts of Parliament, notice is hereby given that on Friday, the 17th day of June, 1870, Mrs. Julia Halpin, of Healthfield, Roundtown Road, in the county of Dublin, widow; Isabella Julia Thorpe, wife of Thomas Thorpe, of Grange Hill, Thurles, in the county of Tipperary, Esquire, by William Oswald Halpin, of Healthfield aforesaid, Esq., her next friend; the said William Oswald Halpin, George Halpin, of Eglinton Cottages, South Circular Road, in the said County of Dublin, Esquire; Robert Halpin, of Besborough-parade, Rathmines, in the said county of Dublin, Esq.; Anne Caroline Halpin, of Healthfield, aforesaid, spinster, and Mary Byrne, of Flagstaff Hill, Melbourne, in the colony of Australia, widow, [my italics] presented their petition to the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, praying that an order may be made vesting in the Reverend William Gilbert Ormsby and Joseph Hone, as the trustees of the said indenture of settlement, dated the 18th day of October, 1865, and in the trustees or trustee for the time being of the same indenture , or such other persons as to his Lordship should seem fit, general powers of granting building leases for the terms of years not exceeding 400 years [!?] in possession of all or any part or parts of the several lots and pieces of ground situate in the Parishes of St T. And St G., in the County of the city of D., mentioned in the title of the said petition, and also general powers of entering into and making preliminary contracts for leases .[...].the matter of said petition has been referred to the Right Honourable the Vice-Chancellor of Ireland.[...].Dated this 6th day of July 1870 – Messrs. Joseph Hone and Son, Solicitors for said Petitioners, No. 5 Foster-place, Dublin.
I think you’ll agree, there’s a great deal to intrigue in that document, not least within the italics. What ‘settlement’ was executed on the marriage of George and Julia? And who is Mary Byrne of Flagstaff Hill? Any relation to “enfield’s” Mr Byrne?
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From the Freeman’s Journal, Sat., July 1st 1876 –
IN CHANCERY. IN THE MATTER OF The Great Southern and Western Railway Act, 1872, and in the matter of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, ex parte the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, and to the credit of William Oswald Halpin and John Hone, Trustees of George Halpin, deceased, and all other persons interested in respect of all those pieces or Portions of land situate in the North Lots, in the Parish of Saint Thomas.[...I think the Great S & W Railway Co expanded Amiens Street station onto lands it didn’t own...]. Take notice that upon the application of William Oswald Halpin, of Laurel Lodge, Foxrock, Esq., and John Hone, of Ashton Park, Esq., to His Honour the Master of the Rolls, His Honour, by an order dated the 3rd day of June 1876, ordered that the Accountant General of this Honourable Court should draw on the Govenor and the Company of the Bank of Ireland, in favour of the said William Oswald Halpin and John Hone, for the sum of £1,252 cash, lodged by the said Railway Company in the Bank of Ireland to the credit of the matter mentioned in the title of this notice. .[...a good deal of legalese follows, before finishing thus...].Dated this 22nd day of June, 1876, William Griffin, Secretary to the Master of the Rolls.
Bill, there is a poignant series of dates recorded in the Irish Times that seemed to me to plot the decline of this line of George’s descendents. It began with the announcement of Oswald jnr’s death, killed in action during the Great War, and passed through the death of Oswald snr, an IRA raid on the Laurels during the war of independence, the sale of the Halpin Trust Estate and, finally I think, the sale of the Foxrock Lodge itself. I’m only going on memory here, so the precise sequence of events may not be exactly accurate, but it’s near enough for our purposes. What we see in that sad dateline - determined to a great extent by large historical events - is the eventual parting of a native family and its homeland. The incidents I’m referring to occur between about 1915 – 25, and one incident in particular, the Republican raid on the Laurels (I’ll send you the exact date) may bring our respective families into very uncomfortable proximity indeed. But to understand what I’m driving at, you must understand a little of the historical context in which the raid occurred.
Firstly, take a look at this, advertised in the Irish Times, Saturday, June 12 1920:
SALE TUESDAY, 6th JULY. HALPIN TRUST ESTATE. SEVILLE PLACE AND ADJACENT STREETS NEAR AMIENS ST. STATION AND THE DOCKS. [What follows then is a series of Lot descriptions, 10 in all, too many to include here, so I’ll give you a typical example]: LOT 1 – The 9 Dwellinghouses Nos., 102 – 110 Seville Place. Eight are occupied by monthly and quarterly tenants at rents varying from £44 12s 0d to £51 10s 3d a year, and no. 107 is held by a leasehold tenant at the small rent of £12 (less 10s 6d standard rate). The entire premises comprised in this Lot are held by the owner under a lease for 489 years, from 29th Sept. 1818, at the yearly rent of £46 less deductions. The gross rental received out of all these houses is £390, less the Head Rent and Rates and Taxes, and a Port and Docks rent or charge of £3 7s 11d. These houses (except no. 107) will, if desired, be offered separately, the first 7 subject to £6 each rent, and the 8th to £4 3s 3d, to be reserved by subleases made to the purchasers; otherwise the whole will be sold in one Lot.[...and so it goes in a similar vein all the way down to the 7th Lot...]. The Following Lots, Nos. 8, 9 and 10 Belong to Mrs. Anna M. Halpin, And Not To The Trust Estate. [Lot 8 is typical of the others] – The 4 Dwellinghouses, Nos. 12, 13, 14 and 15 Oswald Terrace, Lower Oriel Street, producing a gross annual rental of £97 7/4, less rates and taxes. Held under lease for 900 years from 1st May 1867, at yearly rent of £9. These houses are very attractive and well built, and are in good order. For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to HONE and FAULKNER, Solicitors, 9 Suffolk Street, Dublin.
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On the face of it, the sale of a Trust Estate like this one may seem innocent enough. What makes it different, however, is its location and date. At around that time, British soldiers were roaming the streets of Dublin in a usually futile effort to locate ‘terrorists’. The War of Independence was essentially a guerrilla war between two exceptionally violent forces, one highly visible, the other effectively invisible. Civilians were often caught in the crossfire and the community most affected by this were poor, inner-city slum-dwellers concentrated in and around the North Strand. William Robert Halpin, early member of Connelly’s Irish Citizen’s Army, a socialist and a Shinner, was Captain of H-squad – a particularly ruthless band of IRA men drawn from the North Strand tenements. William, or Willy, was my grandfather’s eldest brother, grandson of Robert Wellington Halpin, Wicklow Town Clerk. Details of Will’s activities were conveyed to me by my father, and I’ve verified some of what he said. I have not yet tried to verify the rest. But I have good reason to trust my sources on Willy, and I will include those reasons in a future posting about him on this site. At any rate, what I’d like you to consider is this: Did the sale of so many tenancies in the North Strand, particularly during the troubles, create in the traumatised locals a fear of eviction? Did the ‘Protestant’ sale of 900 year leases outrage the local IRA leaders at a time when many of them were determined to kill, indiscriminately, for the sake of political independence? More significantly, perhaps – did Willy take umbrage at these auctions on behalf of the locals; was he rankled by an imputed connection to the Foxrock Halpins? Was he behind the Republican raid on the Laurels? The suggestion is not meant to be self-serving here – it’s actually quite plausible. If Willy was indeed behind the decision to break into the Laurels, was he acting for entirely ‘patriotic’ reasons? Or was there a personal motive involved – for example: if Willy did conduct the raid, did he believe he was attacking a class of people who held proprietorial rights over ‘the rightful owners of Irish real estate’; did he believe he was about to raid the home of a distant relative of his father’s, someone who was living comfortably and securely in leafy, landed, ‘loaded’ Foxrock, one member of an extended family that had, in a sense, banished Edwin from the Wicklow fold after he married Marianne? It’s difficult to say how his mind might have worked, isn’t it? I’m trying to view those distant events through Willy’s eyes. The answer may lie with his grandson, who has agreed to meet me soon. All in all, though, say what you like about the meaning behind these events – at least my explanation has the virtue of being dramatic. In that respect, it may be more self-serving than I’m letting on.
For the time being, all the best.
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Sorry for keeping you waiting, CreamEgg. Will prioritize the material you requested and get it to you within the week. In the meantime, you may want to look at the last mssg I sent Bill Webster - it contains some interesting material on Willy.
Cheers.
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My first reply, Raymond is to thank you very much for all this information, which I dearly hope will keep coming and which I will have to find a way of storing.
But secondly, I am wondering if we may be overtaxing the Wicklow researchers. Wherever the George Halpins came from (Wicklow, I hope), the family essentially became Dubliners.
Should we perhaps conduct this valuable exchange at a Dublin list, or a Halpin list?
Cara, what do you think?
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Raymond. Page 2a of your last.
George Halpin senior was buried 12 July 1854 at Mount Jerome.
George Halpin junior died 4 June 1869 at Rathgar and was buried at Mount Jerome.
George junior made a will dated 21 October 1865 in which he mentions his marriage with Julia Villiers dated on or about the 18th day of October 1865. His 1869 death certificate states that he had been ill in excess of 5 years, so in 1865 he was putting his affairs in order.
George senior was essentially a builder who had a genius for engineering. I knew that he had developed some rows of houses in Dublin, as you would expect an enterprising builder to do, but I knew no details. You are sure giving us some of those details now.
George senior's burial records state that he was "removed" from the parish of St Thomas I was hoping that this meant a church of St Thomas so that we could perhaps search the registers of that church hopefully to find his marriage and other family occasions. From what you write, this burial record may mean that he was removed from a location in the civil parish of St Thomas and St George, which means to me that a church of St Thomas need not have been his family church. That is a disappointment.
Children mentioned in the June 1870 Notice:
All those mentioned are known children of Julia but you have been of assistance with locations. The George Halpin mentioned is the younger brother of the first William Oswald Halpin and is my ancestor. He finally emigrated from Ireland in 1882. My grandmother was born in 1881 at 2 Raymond Street, South Dublin, which I thought from its nature would have been temporary accommodation pending their departure. Could the Eglinton Cottages mentioned here be the same? Perhaps these were George Halpin developments too. Annie Caroline married after this Notice, in 1873, to Arthur Henry Thompson. Robert Halpin, here at Rathmines, is said to have married a woman named Mettie (Unknown) in England and had children Maud and George Alfred. Now, Mary Byrne. Mary was born about 1845/6 and it had been reported to me that she had married a Patrick Byrne and had a daughter Annie Byrne. If she was a widow in Melbourne in 1870, that is news to me. I will get some sleuths to work on that.
I'll respond to your other pages separately. B.
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Raymond. Page 3a.
I think one of our family researchers may have tried to see if the solicitors firm of Hone and Faulkner still existed. I don't know of any outcome. The Anna M Halpin was the widow of William Oswald Halpin of Foxrock and now it seems there is also an Oswald Street. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I am convinced that the name Oswald is a pointer to an earlier generation, whether that of George senior or of his wife Elizabeth.
A couple of children of the Australian branch attest that for some time distributions from a trust were being received. As I have mentioned, Julia looked askance on our George Halpin's marriage and apparently some of them complained that Julia was mean in the distributions to them (while she was alive, of course - Julia died at Foxrock in 1889, 20 years after George junior). I wonder if thereafter William Oswald (died 1908) and perhaps even his widow Anna Maria (died 1933) administered what was left of the Trust as Julia would have.
The Foxrock estate started out at over 7 acres but was whittled down to under 1 and adjoining the house (the Laurels) was a separate smaller premises denoted Foxrock Lodge or Laurels Lodge. At some point these would have been separated off.
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Raymond. Page 4a.
This stuff about the IRA is terrific reading and not anything I had known before (as it relates to my family). As a staunch republican, your Willy had a few loads on his back that could have explained his strident views, not least having an antecedent named Robert Wellington Halpin, a town clerk under the British order. And William Robert were not the equivalent forenames of a Paddy or a Seamus.
I got some of my information about The Laurels from a local history group that includes Foxrock. They could be interested in the IRA attacking leafy Torquay Road, Foxrock, surrounded by golf courses and Leopardstown racecourse.
In 1920, the only occupant was widowed Anna Maria Halpin who had just lost one son in the Great War and her other son was living in England.
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Posts: 294
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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HALPIN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Irish Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 07/06/1917
Service No: 5798
Additional information: Son of John and Anne Halpin, of Killary, Lobinstown, Slane, Co. Meath.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 2.
Cemetery: WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY
Born in Killeary in County Meath and enlisted in Widnes in Lancashire, There was also an Edward Halpin from the same place also enlisted in Widnes and also died in 1917
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