I have mentioned here before Richard Halpin, harbourmaster at Howth. 12 July 1859. Letters of Administration of the Personal estate of Richard Halpin late of Howth in the County of Dublin Gentleman a Widower deceased who died 1 May 1855 at same place were granted at the Principal Registry to Edward Baker Giltenan of Spa Mount Belfast in the County of Antrim the Substitute of Adam M’Crory having an Interest in the estate of said deceased. (Limited as therein mentioned.) In the margin is handwritten “Coterorum Grant herein passed at Principal Registry April 1862”. It seems he died without a will.
Subsequent entry for him. 5 April 1862. Effects under £25. Letters of Administration of the rest of the personal estate of Richard Halpin late of Howth in the County of Dublin Surveyor of Customs deceased who died 30 April 1855 at same place were granted ... to MARIA BOND otherwise HALPIN (Wife of Joseph Bond Writing Clerk) of Alfred Lodge York-road Kingstown in the County of Dublin the Daughter one of the surviving next of kin of said deceased. (Cæterorum Grant. Former Grant Court of Probate 1859.)
Susannah Frances Halpin (wife of Dr Stopford Halpin of Arklow) late of 3 Adelaide Terrace Kingstown County Dublin Widow who died 29 November 1908 granted at Dublin to George NEWSOM Farmer. Effects £765 7s 2d. Newsom was married to her daughter Catherine Ann.
Her son, Stopford John Halpin, married Geraldine Anna BOND 1894 in Co Wicklow. Geraldine’s parents were Richard Thomas Bond of Kiltoom Co Roscommon and Elizabeth Jane Wilton. Stopford and Geraldine appear to have left behind their two children to leave for New York in 1903 and settling in Vancouver Canada. In the 1901 Census they were living as a family at Legan (Moate, Westmeath) where Stopford aged 35 was a bank accountant, children Stopford Richard Arthur 5 and Loiuse Frances 2.
After they left, son Stopford died in 1908 in the Rathdown district (probably Kingstown) and in the 1911 Census, daughter Louisa Francis age 12 is living at her grandmother’s old residence, 3 Adelaide Terrace Kingstown, with her aunts Nannie Caldour and Violet Louise Halpin, along with her cousin, Elizabeth Francis (Bessie) Halpin 20, orphaned daughter of Dr Richard Frederick Bestall Halpin. Louisa at some point went to her parents in Vancouver where she died in 1977.
Here we have intriguing coincidences. Maria daughter of Richard Halpin of Howth had married a Joseph Bond and lived in Kingstown. About this time, Geraldine Bond was born in Co Roscommon and later married Stopford John Halpin and their children lived with Stopford John’s mother and sisters in Kingstown.
Add to which, Mary Anne Halpin b.c. 1860 to Richard Mathews Halpin (brother of Dr Stopford William Halpin of Arklow) and Sarah Gregg married at St Annes COI Dublin in 1882 Henry Swinton BOND of 57 York Road Kingstown, son of Joseph Bond, Agent, (and unstated wife). C E Bond signed as witness. And remember that a Gregg was a close neighbour of Richard Halpin in Howth, father of the wife of a Joseph Bond.
It appears to me that Henry Swinton Bond was a grandson of Richard Halpin of Howth and here he marries a daughter of Sarah Gregg, probably related to his grandfather's neighbour in Howth, and of a member of the family of the Wicklow Halpins, Richard Mathews Halpin.