Family lore holds that the O’Halloran’s emigrated north from Co. Clare to Co. Antrim in the late 18th century due to a combination of religious and political pressures. Certainly Halloran, or O'h-Allmhurain , meaning ‘stranger from overseas’, was a Munster name. The Clare branch of the O'h-Allmhurain were of the same stock as the MacConmaras and their original territory embraced much of the district around Ogonnelloe in the Barony of Tulla, from where they spread southwards into Co. Limerick.[i]
Their ancestor is said to have been Michael O'Halloran, a "substantial” 18th century Catholic farmer, who had at least three sons by his wife Mary McDonnell. It is certainly interesting that a link to the McDonnell family at this early stage. There were two lines of the Antrim clan of McDonnells living in Clare at this time, both Church of Ireland and both regarded themselves as reasonably close kinsmen of the Antrim branch.
Michael and Mary’s sons appear to have been raised in a manner typical of the 18th century Catholic Irish whereby the first son joined the church, the second secured the land and a vocation, and the third went for higher education. In this instance, the eldest brother, the Rev Joseph Ignatius O'Halloran SJ (1718-1800) went to the Jesuit College in Bordeaux and was later appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. The third brother Sylvester O'Halloran was born on December 31st 1728 at Caherdavin, Co. Clare, and became an eminent surgeon, historian and antiquary.[ii] The middle brother George O'Halloran, was a jeweler and a man of property who probably served his apprenticeship in Limerick City. It was suggested that this was the George O’Halloran who relocated to Ulster and became such a prominent figure in Glenarm. However, Walker's Hibernian magazine of 1804, otherwise known as the ‘Compendium of entertaining knowledge’ refers to the recent death of “Mr. George Halloran, formerly an eminent silversmith” in Limerick. If he was the middle son, George would have been born between 1718 and 1728.
The original George Halloran of Glenarm was born circa 1764, place unknown, making him a direct contemporary of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Napoleon’s Empress Josephine. On his headstone, he is said to have ‘departed this life 29th February 1846 aged 81 years’. Subtracting 81 from 1846 gets 1765. However if his birthday fell after February 29th, then he could have been born in 1764. It is possible that his father was a son, or even grandson, of George O’Halloran, the Limerick silversmith alluded to above but this has yet to be proven. It has also been suggested that he was the son of a haberdasher from Castlewellan, Co. Down, the adjoining county to Antrim. Certainly this was the only Halloran or O’Halloran family living in the Glens of Antrim during this time. The family grave in Glenarm notably gives George’s surname as Halleran.
A man by the name of George Halloran (as opposed to O’Halloran or Halleran) was registered as a tenant of the Earl of Antrim in the townland of Druminagh in Glencloy (Carnlough) in 1777.[iii] On the basis that George of Glenarm was born in 1763, he would have only been 14 at this time so perhaps this refers to his father, also George. In any event, during the 1780's, George became closely connected with the Earl of Antrim, ultimately working for him as both a Revenue officer and an Enforcer. As Tithe Commissioners were required by law to come from outside the area, George may have been “imported” into Co. Antrim by the Earl.
On 17th January 1790, aged about 27, he married Eleanor Forbes (1766-1841), the 24-year-old daughter of Hugh Forbes of Bridge Street, Glenarm, Co. Antrim. Their first son Hugh died in April 1791 aged three months. A second son Arthur died in October 1796 aged 12 months while another son Nicholas died in March 1802 aged 10 years. They also lost a daughter Jane, aged 18, who died in August 1812. George and Eleanor’s surviving children were George, Richard and Margaret.
The original minute books and registers reveal that George was appointed Revenue Officer (collector of tithes) for St Patrick’s church, Glenarm, on 27th April 1796. George was to remain on St Patrick’s vestry for many years and, in 1815, he was also appointed a Churchwarden.
During the 1798 Rebellion, he served in the loyalist Glenarm Yeomanry, under Captain George Stewart. This 60-strong force was threatened with an attack by United Irishman rebels in June 1798 and obliged to take refuge in Glenarm Castle. When Earl Camden, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, sent his dispatches from Dublin Castle to Whitehall on June 23rd, he mentioned that Captain Stewart of the Glenarm Yeomanry and Captain Mathews of the Portaferry Yeomanry ‘had behaved uncommonly well in repulsing large bodies of rebels, who attacked them with great fury’.[iv] On 20th December 1800, George was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Glenarm Yeomanry under Captain Stewart. It seems highly likely that Lieutenant George O’Halloran thus bestowed the name ‘Stewart’ as a middle name upon his eldest son George Stewart Hallroan, who was born in about 1800. The Stewarts were closely allied to the Earls of Antrim, acting as their agents from the early 1600s and holding substantial portions of the McDonnell lands in Co. Antrim. They were also intermarried with the McDonnells of Kilmore in Glenarrif, amongst others. Captain Stewart died in 1802 and P. Mathewson was commissioned as the new captain of the Glenarm Yeomanry on 8th February 1803.[v]
George was certainly very focused on the importance of names at this point because it is believed he dropped the O from the family name of O’Halloran in the wake of the 1798 rebellion.
George Halloran was evidently also a road contractor. He was mentioned in the Lent Assizes for 1811 Road Sessions - 'To George Halloran, Alexander and William McCloy to make 34 perches of road - Glenarm to Ballycastle - in Harphall (Carnlough) at 1s 6p.'
In October 1812, two months after the death of his 18-year-old daughter Jane, George Halloran (then aged 49), Joseph Hunter and Phil Gibbons were to superintend the pulling down of the courthouse steeple in Glenarm which had become dangerous. To achieve this, the sum of £11 7s 6d had been levied on the Barony, all of which was paid to Phil Gibbons. The Gibbons connection is interesting. Phil was born in Westport, Co Mayo where his father John Gibbons had been land agent for the local landlord, Lord Altamont. Phil’s father and two of his brothers, John (jun) and Edmond were implicated in the 1798 Rebellion. After the Rebellion John (sen) escaped to France where he died many years later, while John (jun) was hanged at Westport and Edmond was sentenced to life in Botany Bay. Edmond jumped ship in France, joined an Irish Legion and was killed fighting at Boulogne in 1809. Phil favoured a sea-faring life and, as captain of a smack vessel, sailed into Glenarm Harbour where he met Anne Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Antrim's agent in Glenarm. They were married in about 1788. Gibbons eventually came to live at No 58 High Street, Carnlough. By the time of the 1798 Rebellion, he was a respected property holder in Carnlough and a loyal member of the Church of Ireland congregation. He not implicated in the rising. Like George he supplemented his income by taking on road repairs and road construction and his name appears in 1811 Road Sessions. He also built a loose stone pier “200 ft long and 200ft broad (for about £1200) which could take vessels of 15-20 weight”. Phil Gibbons’ name as a juryman appeared for the last time on 2nd April, 1814 and he died in 1816.[vi] (When Lt J Chaytor’s made an advance statement of his Ordnance Survey in 1832, he noted that Phil Gibbon’s pier in Glenarm was already in a dilapidated condition. It nonetheless served as a protection for the new harbour during its construction from 1853-55).
There is also a fine story about George S Halloran and the Glenarm soup-kitchens, accessible here at http://www.antrimhistory.net/content.php?cid=539, in which George is described as having ‘devoted his energies for almost fifty years to the welfare of the poor of the parish’ as treasurer.
In 1816, George Halloran had the lease of a farm in the townland of Mullaghconnelly.[vii] It is believed he farmed at Mullaghconnelly, Glenarm, but lived on Toberwine Street in central Glenarm, close to the Soup Kitchen which he supervised on behalf of the Vestry. In 1825, Lord Antrim commissioned William Vitruvius Morrison to rebuild Glenarm castle. In 1830, George was also farming 11a, 0r, 28p in the townland of Libbert (Glenarm).
The 1832 Tithe Applotment records for the Parish of Tickmacrevan (Glenarm) list George as head of house at Mullaghconnelly, Glenarm, as well as a number of residential properties in Glenarm Town.[viii] George appears to have left Mullaghconnelly sometime between 1832 and 1840.
Eleanor died on 3 Aug 1841 and was buried in the Glebe graveyard, just out side Glenarm.
According to Lennon Wylie 1843, George Halloran of Lower Glenarm was listed as one of fourteen High Constables and Collectors of Cess for Co. Antrim. He was also listed as one of eighteen Dispensaries in the county (and the only one in Glenarm). The Earl of Antrim was Deputy Lieutenant for Co. Antrim at this time, while George, Earl of Belfast (a son of the Marquess of Donegall) was Lord Lieutenant for the county.
In 1835, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping noted a vessel called ‘Glenarm’ owned by Mr. Halloran and built in Jersey earlier that year. She belonged to Belfast Port and was sailing, via Jersey, for Quebec under Master Buttershal.[ix]On 3rd December 1842, the South Australian Register noted that “the barque Glenarm, from Liverpool, Captain White, one hundred and nineteen days, arrived in [Hobart?] Bay on Wednesday evening last.” However just as she was landing (opposite Brighton) a white squall struck her and carried away her mizenmast and caused some further damage. The accident was spotted from the shore by Edward Stephens and John Morphet who notified HW Philips, ‘Lloyd’s Agent at this port’ who ensured she was brought safely into the bay. ‘The Glenarm was laid on for New Zealand, as well as Port Adelaide, but it is hardly expected that she will proceed further on her voyage if a purchaser can be found for her here’.[x] However, on 22nd December 1844, the Glenarm was reportedly loading up with oil at Port Nicholson and she left for London, via Adelaide, on the 28th
In 1844, The Bible Christian referred to George as taking the chair at a soiree held by Glenarm’s Remonstrant congregation on 22nd October.[xi] The full reference is here:
“On Tuesday, Oct.22, the Remonstrant congregation of Glenarm held a soiree, in their meeting-house, for the purpose of expressing their gratitude to their friends, of other religious denominations, who came forward so kindly to get up, and sign petitions on their behalf, during the progress of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. This must have been a pleasing duty to every member of the congregation; for in no other locality did the members of other religious communities manifest a greater interest in the success of their Remonstrant brethren, than in that of Glenarm. The meeting was numerous and respectable. After tea, on the motion of the Rev. A. Montgomery, seconded by the Rev. T. Smyth, George S. Halloran, Esq. was called to the chair. Several sentiments, of a routine character, having been gone over, the Chairman gave,—" Sir Robert Peel, and her Majesty's Ministers;" "Civil and Religious Liberty;" "Our Deputation to London m defence of our rights;" " Our Friends of other religious denominations, who aided us so liberally in the hour of danger;" " The Rev. A Montgomery, the old and faithful minister of the congregation of Glenarm ;" " The Rev Thomas Smyth, and the congregation of Glenarm;" "The Ladies;" and " The Northern Whig." The Rev. Messrs. Campbell, Glendy, Montgomery, Smyth, and 11. Martin, Esq. spoke on the occasion.”
George died at Culfreightrim aged 81 on 29th February 1846, having ‘so faithfully supervised the running of the Broth Shop in 1817’. One of his last acts was to install a new boiler (Jan 1846). He was buried alongside his late wife in the Glebe graveyard, Glenarm. The inscribed headstone gives George Halloran, Esq (1765-1846) of Glenarm and his wife Eleanor Forbes (1765-1841).
George and Eleanor’s eldest son was George Stewart Halloran. He and his brother Richard set up a business exporting limestone from quarries owned by the Earl of Antrim. Developed in the early 19th century, the limestone quarry was a considerable business, supplying much of the limestone used for steel production in Glasgow. As such, to be managing these quarries was a position of much importance.The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland notes that, as "Lords of the Soil" for the four baronies of Glenarm, Dunluce, Kilconway and Cary (including Rathlin Island), the Earls of Antrim ‘had an interest in the exploitation of the mineral wealth of the north of Antrim, including areas were they had lost possession of the land.’ One of the earliest documents in PRONI’s collection is a lease, dating from 1639, of the coal mines and salt pans of Bonamargy, just to the east of Ballycastle, and it is clear from the wording of this document that mining was already well established in the area by this time. Another document shows that Ballycastle coal was sold in Dublin in the early eighteenth century. Iron ore, bauxite and limestone were also mined and the Earls were involved in the development of harbours, roads and railways to facilitate the exportation of the minerals. Amongst the industrial concerns whose records are included in the collection are: the Ballycastle collieries, Glenariff Iron Ore and Harbour Co., the Antrim Iron Ore Co., Glenarm Whiting Mill, Glenarm harbour and the Carnlough harbour and railway.
The O’Halloran family motto is generally given as "Ripis rapax, rivis audax", meaning ‘On the banks rapacious, in the streams daring.’ Richard and George Halloran appear to have adopted their own motto ("Per Mare et Terram") and crest (an otter) for their shipping business. The use of blue and white colours on the ancient shield may emphasize the link to south-western Scotland.
On 8th March 1837, The Times recorded that George Stewart Halloran of Belfast, merchant, was to appear before the bankrupt courts at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool, at midday on March 23rd . As “a trader”, George was “jointly indebted with Richard Halloran of St Michael’s” and that there had been “sep. dividends of G.S. Halloran, and joint dividends”.[xii] His name was also amongst a large number of names of people declared bankrupt in the Metropolitan magazine between 21st February and 17th March 1837.[xiii]
However, the London Gazette listed G. S. Halloran, of Belfast, merchant, as one of eight people across Britain granted a Certificate (to do business?) on June 14th 1838.[xiv]
In about 1840, George Stewart Halloran resumed the use of the ‘O’ in the family name which his father had abandoned four decades earlier. O’Halloran was the name he was known by in Scotland, Australia and New Zealand. And when his nephews Gerald and George Halloran came out to join him in 1860 in Melbourne they also adopted took the name O'Halloran.
George married twice. His first wife was Jane Frances Davies, daughter of the late Rev. Richard Davies (Co. Antrim). She died aged 38 on 6th December 1852. A plaque to the memory of ‘Jane Frances O'Halloran’ hangs upon the wall of St Patrick's Church, Glenarm. This was erected by her husband George O’Halloran who gave his address as Glasgow. He was in fact operating as a shipbroker in Scotland with offices at Buchanan Street, Glasgow. The business was called ‘O’Halloran and Brown, Ship Brokers’ and his partner was Mr. Thomas Brown. However, the business evidently went bankrupt and, on 10th July 1857, the London Gazette announced that George was ‘now in Australia, or elsewhere abroad’.[xv] Later that same year, he was married in Melbourne to Elizabeth Hodgson.
George was not the first Halloran to go down under. Laurence Hynes O'Halloran (1766-1831), a Co. Meath poet educated at Trinity College Dublin, was transported to Australia for forging a tenpenny frank. Nevertheless he was later deemed suitable to take up the position of headmaster of a grammar school in Sydney. It is also to be noted that John Lanktree, Lord Antrim’s agent from 1843 to 1850, also emigrated to Australia in October 1850, having run into financial difficulty.
George died in Wellington on 20 June 1868 aged 68. In his obituary, he is reported to have owned four vessels engaged in transporting cattle between Wellington and Dunedin during the boom times of the Otago gold rush. The Mercantile Navy List & Maritime Directory for 1867 referred to George S. O’Halloran (Melbourne) operating the 121-ton Adelaide Packet out of Melbourne.
In George S O'Halloran's (1800-1868) obituary in the Evening Post of Wellington, dated 22nd June 1868 it is written: ‘Since Mr O'Halloran's residence in Wellington, he has endeared himself to a large circle of friends, for his many social, generous and good qualities. He might well be termed the fine old Irish gentleman. Mr O'Halloran was an intimate friend of Lord Antrim, with whom he had an interest in a large quarry at Glenarm, County Antrim - the birthplace of the subject of this short notice. While managing this quarry it would appear he was much beloved by all his workmen, they having presented him with a most affectionate token of respect in the shape of a large silver snuff box, bearing the appropriate description of "Irish gratitude, from his workmen". At the same time Mr O'Halloran was presented with a very handsome silver salver by the residents of Glenarm".
His family are currently restoring his grave in the historic Bolton Street Memorial Park.
George’s second son Richard Halloran, a merchant, married Jane Disney (1816-1854), daughter of the Rev. Brabazon William Disney (1797-1874), Dean of Armagh. When Griffith’s Valuation conducted its survey of Tickmacrevan, Co. Antrim, in [year], Richard Halloran was noted for ‘Harphall’.
She died young in Glenarm in 1854 and is buried in St Patricks Church of Ireland, Glenarm. Richard and Jane had ten children before her untimely demise, of whom George Stewart O'Halloran (1845-1910) was great-grandfather to Alan Martin, Director at Martin & O'Halloran Limited. A younger brother, Brabazon Disney O'Halloran (1856-1901), was Chief Postmaster for Whangarei.
In 1856, two years after Jane’s death, Richard leased a coal import yard at the back of 44-52 High Street, Carnlough, from Richard Wilson.[xvi] Wilson was the man who replaced the bankrupt John Lanktree as agent to Lord Antrim in 1850. He oversaw the construction of the new harbour between 1853 and 1855, as well as the two storey Town Hall and clock tower, a new quarry, a new harbour and a new agent’s house at Drumalla. Wilson was later land agent to the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry (who owned Glencloy) until 1865.
In an article on the limestone extractive industry in Glencloy (Carnlough), included in his book 'Glencloy, a local history', Felix McKillop wrote: ‘In February 1860, Richard Wilson (agent to the Londonderry family who owned Glencloy) wrote to the Marchioness (of Londonderry, who lived in Co Durham) to point out that 'all five kilns are at work and are kept as busy as possible from morning to night'. He also expressed the need for a person to manage the growing (limestone) industry. He had Richard Halloran in mind. Halloran earlier had the lease of the quarries and kilns at Glenarm but due a dispute with Lord Antrim lost this lease and came to live in Carnlough. In 1857 he had leased a coal import yard at the back of 44-52 High Street, Carnlough from Wilson. The yard, beside the lime kiln presently standing between High Street and the Methodist Church in Herbert Street, is still known as 'Halloran's Yard'. Wilson continues: 'the only person I know capable to manage the business is Mr Halloran, but whether he would devote his whole energy to it and give up his other business I do not know as I have not spoken to him. He must have an accurate knowledge of such business from his long experience in it and is well acquainted with the Scottish coast. If he could give security for his actions I know of no other person who would likely suit as well'. In 1864 Halloran accepted the post and was appointed manager of Carnlough Lime Works.[xvii]
Richard Halloran died in New Zealand in 1869.
MARGARET HALLORAN
George and Eleanor’s daughter Margaret is thought to have died unmarried or left Ireland.
GERALD RICHARD O'HALLORAN (1844-1925) & GEORGE STEWART O’HALLORAN JR (D. 1910)
In 1860-61, Richard and Jane’s elder son Gerald Richard O'Halloran (1844-1925) left Glenarm with his brother George to join their uncle George Stewart O’Halloran in Melbourne and Wellington.
George spent the period 1863-1872 in the Militia and Armed Constabulary and was Captain of the Patea Cavalry during the Taranaki campaign. There is a further McDonnell association with George Stewart O'Halloran (1845-1910). On his New Zealand War Medal application, it states that he served under Colonel McDonnell in 1867 and 1868. Professor James Bellich has suggested that George’s rapid promotion from Sergeant to Captain may have had as much to do with his Antrim connections rather than his military ability. The Colonel was the eldest son of Lieutenant Thomas McDonnell, RN, who was born in Antrim in 1788 and died in Auckland in 1864. Thomas McDonnell was one of New Zealand’s earliest settlers, purchasing land in the Hokianga in 1831 and returning in 1835 with the honorary appointment as Additional British Resident. In 1858 he was granted land in the Whangarei District. He also owned the "Sir George Murray", one of the first ships to be built at Horeke, "the Deptford of the South" and the first industrial site in New Zealand. Other Ulstermen involved in the Taranaki campaign who also received promotion were John Ballance (who became Prime Minister of New Zealand) and Lieutenant John Boyce, of the Kai-Iwi Cavalry (who, as Minister of Native Affairs, will forever be associated with the storming of Parahaki Pa in 1881).
An extract from George’s autobiography reads as follows:
"Here are the instructions I received, written in pencil on a fly-leaf of the Colonel's pocket-book whilst he sat on his horse before starting for the front.
'Captain O'Halloran will proceed to Whanganui with as little delay as possible and if necessary stop the press and have the following advertisement inserted.- Cavalry Volunteers for the Front. Captain O'Halloran has instructions to raise in Whanganui about 30 men for the Patea Yeomanry Cavalry. Conditions etc will be explained to the men by Captain O'Halloran. Signed Thomas McDonnell, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Patea Field Force August 3rd 1868'
Captain O'Halloran and Lieutentant Bryce were both mentioned in dispatches for the part they played in the battle of Handley's Woolshed in which action 8 natives were killed in a cavalry charge. The Patea Cavalry also fought in the Battle of Ngu.o.Te Manu on 7 Sep 1868 (George's 23rd birthday) in Von Tempsky's Division.
Alan Martin was presented with George’s cavalry sword by a cousin and has since passed it on to his nephew who is a policeman in Wellington. As well as commanding the Patea Cavalry, he wrote an auto-biography. In 1875, George Stewart O’Halloran’s name pops up in The Thames Star with 250 shares in the Midas Goldmining Company in Tairua, New Zealand. By 1879 the Thames Advertiser had him running the Waitoa Hotel by the springs at Tairua (aka Te Aroha).[xviii] In 1886, George reunited with his brother Gerald to establish the accountancy practice of O'Halloran & Co in Auckland. This firm continues to this day, four generations on. George S O’Halloran died in Auckland in December 1910.
One of Richard’s ships was the Fanny A. Garriques, a brig of 189 tons, registered to G.S. O’Halloran, Wellington. She was under the command of Captain Hansen when shipwrecked in Palliser Bay on June 30th 1863 whilst travelling from Otago to Wellington. Captain Hansen was washed overboard and whilst making for shore was drowned on the rocks. The ship was insured for £2,000 and when submitted for auction, the wreck realized only £7-10.[xix]
Further Reading:
The Antrim Papers (D2977), held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (2007). See: www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_antrim_d2977.pdf
The Clareman, 'Sylvester O'Halloran, surgeon and antiquarian' in the "Clare Champion", 16 May 1986.
Hayes, Richard, 'Some notable Limerick doctors' in "North Munster Antiquarian Journal" vol. 1, no. 3 (1938).
Hogan, Patrick (ed.), 'The Common Place Book of Thady O'Halloran of Ballycunneen, Bunratty, Co. Clare (1727-97) in "North Munster Antiquarian Journal" vol. 7 (1956).
J.B. Lyons, 'The letters of Sylvester O'Halloran' in "North Munster Antiquarian Journal" vol. 9 (1962-65).
With thanks to Felix McKillop, Alan Martin, Hector McDonnell, Gerald O’Halloran, Jessica McCormack, Dr. Edith Pendleton, Barbara Wells, and others.
[i] http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/ohalloran_family.htm
[ii] At least two of Sylvester’s sons converted to the Church of Ireland, probably in order to obtain access to better education.
[iii] PRONI D2977/7B/1.
[iv] The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 68, Part 2, p. 614 and 709 (F. Jefferies, July 1798). Ironically, a two volume novel was published in Philadelphia BY H. C. Carey and I. Lea in 1824 entitled “O'HALLORAN; OR, THE INSURGENT CHIEF. AN IRISH HISTORICAL TALE OF 1798” in which, in Chapter VII (p. 65), the Glenarm Yeomanry make a cameo appearance. .
[v] Other appointments of note were William Mathewson as Lieutenant (22 Dec 1823) and Edward A. Mathewson as Lieutenant (26 March 1831). (See Return of the Names of the Officers of each and every Yeomanry corps in Ireland from “ACCOUNTS AND PAPERS: THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES” (1843).
[vi] See: http://www.antrimhistory.net/content.php?cid=136
[vii] McKillop, Felix, 'Townlands, people and traditions' (p. 176)
[viii] What year was McKillop referring to here …? in the Local History of Glenarm by Felix McKillop published in 1987 on page 45 listing Heads of Households : Mullaghconnelly - George Halloran, Libbert Mr Halloran, Owens Libbert Mr Halloran and Toberwine Street Mr Halloran. As he was described as a gentleman rather than a farmer is thought that he leased all these properties as rental units.
[ix] Lloyd's register of shipping, Wyman and sons, 1835.
[x] The South Australian register, 3rd December 1842, page 2.
[xi] The Bible Christian Volume VI (Third Series, p. 432).
[xii] The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, E. B. Ince, 1841, p. 26
[xiii] The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 18 – Bankrupts, p. 117, March 7.
[xiv] The Champion and Weekly Herald, Volume 1, Issue 7 - Volume 2, Issue 7, p. 96.
[xv] THE LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 10, 1857 (p.2438).
The estates of O'Halloran and Brown, Ship Brokers, JL Buchanan-street, Glasgow, as a Company, and of George Stewart O'Halloran, Ship Broker, in Glasgow; now in Australia, or elsewhere abroad, and Thomas Brown, Ship Broker, in Glasgow, the Individual Partners of that Company, as such Partners, and of the said Thomas Brown, as an Individual, were sequestrated on the 6th day of July, 1857, by the Sheriff of Lanarkshire.
The first deliverance is dated 9th June, 1857.
The meeting to elect the Trustee and Commissioners is to be held at twelve o'clock noon, on Tuesday the 14th day of July, 1857, within the Faculty Hall, St. George's-place, A composition may be offered at this meeting; and to entitle creditors to the first dividend, their oaths and grounds of debt must be lodged on or before the 6th day of November, 1857.
A Warrant of Protection against Arrestment or Imprisonment for Civil Debt, until the meeting of the creditors for the election of Trustee, has been granted to the said Thomas Brown.
All future Advertisements relating to this sequestration will be published in the Edinburgh Gazette alone.
JOHN M. HILL, Agent,
41, West George-street, Glasgow.
[xvi] See page 12 at http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:VjdX1ImzdmYJ:www.planningni.gov.uk/index/policy/supplementary_guidance/conservation/conservation_map/conservation-carnlough.pdf+%22Richard+Halloran%22+Glenarm&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShKdRqSts3SsGUmfLwwaJPf-U8x3tOTuNpAi15gp4Yjx5NE0M01MKH7KLldTi66C_QUJa82Qn_ksFENuZZPud4hGUGoHTNUQ1ZUqhYow8D1lTQHmul3LKFMoOc5JuNOWnKNcouH&sig=AHIEtbSHKnEbkM8apmhP8qbxs5W_3Z294w
[xvii] See PRONI D 654/N2/23.
[xviii] http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=THS18750714.2.21.2&l=mi&e=-------10--1081-DA---0transit+venus-all
[xix] Ingram, CWN, & Wheatley, Owen P, Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters, 1795-1950 (A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1951), p. 99.