Photo: Halpin, Robert Charles *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Wicklow Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: donated by family April 25, 2012, 12:30 pm HALPIN, ROBERT CHARLES Source: Family Photo Robert Charles Halpin, Master Mariner, born February 16, 1836 in Wicklow, Ireland. Robert died January 20, 1894 in Tinakilly, Wicklow. He was the son of James and Anne Halpin (nee Halbert) and captained the Brunel-designed leviathan SS Great Eastern which laid transoceanic telegraph cables in the late 1800s.