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Paget Halpen of Texas
I am looking for information about Paget Halpen of Texas, USA, born about 1795, location unknown. Some events in his life have been recorded, as follows:
Paget Halpen, aged 29, was listed as a passenger on the schooner ‘Hope Mary Ann’ which left New Orleans, Louisiana and arrived in New York on 3.5.1824.  (He may have disembarked before New York). No birth place was shown, but he was a US citizen and a ‘shugar planter’, present and intended residence - New Orleans. The 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 Orleans Parish Court Records, Louisiana (1813-1835), there was a case in which Ulick Wale was the plaintiff, and Paget Halpen was the defendant. No further details have been found so far.

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’. Texas had by then become an independent republic, and later joined the union.
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, recording his acquisition of a total of about 3000 acres of land ‘freed from Mexico’, and finally one for ‘the heirs of Paget Halpin’ in 1906.

Paget was recorded many times. Among other things he was a founding member of the Episcopalian (Anglican) Church in Houston, and he was an important landholder in Texas. I have written to the church but have received no reply. There are a number of Halpens to be found in Texas and nearby states, so I would guess that his descendants would be among them.

Can anybody add to our knowledge of Paget Halpen of Texas ?

I am trying to find living relatives in Nottinghamshire.
I have found the death of Robert Choyce Cooke in Nov. 1992, age 80, reg. at Mansfield. He is definitely related, the 3rd in a row with that name.
He was born in Nottingham in 1912, and had a sister Mary, born 1909, to R. C. Cooke (2) and Priscilla Bradley.
RCC (2) was born 1884 Dublin, but No.1 was born Measham Derbyshire.
Hoping someone out there may know something.
Ken Cooke

I have found two 'citations' from a website 'jstor' that seem relevant.
It quotes from "A Handlist of the Voters of Maryborough 1760" by H F Kearney, 1954. Irish Historical Studies, Select Documents from Drogheda MSS. Nat. Lib. Ireland.
Halpen Mark, Ballymony
Halpen Pagitt, in the Army
Both seem to be "under Mr. Westenraa's influence" which means I presume that they voted for him. I believe there were about 400 electors. I wonder:
I assume that it was for the Corporation of M'borough, or maybe Governor of the County ?
Who would be eligible to vote ?
Would there be a minimum age requirement (I think Pagett was about 20) ?
All help appreciated.
Ken Cooke
 

Could someone with local knowledge please help me ?
I'm trying to find the location of these places:
GUYARCOATES,  RIDING HILL,  REDHEUGH,  HARSLEY

They should be in the West Allen area, but some names may be archaic now.
I can't find any of them in the Ordnance Survey.
Any tips appreciated.
Ken