Photo:  Halpin, Robert Charles

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File contributed by: donated by family April 25, 2012, 12:30 
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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.