Paul Twigg, Born 1782, and Joseph Robinson Pim

My Mother was Dorothy Ann Myvanwy (John) Horn. Her mother was May (O'Brien Twigg) John. Grandma May's father and grandfather were both named Paul O'Brien Twigg and her great-grandfather was Paul Twigg (esquire), a lawyer and investor from Dublin Ireland.

Lately I have been following up on some clues about my third great-grandfather Twigg and here is some of what I have found, including some that I have managed to piece together in the last two days.

Apparently Paul Twigg, as well as being a lawyer, invested in several businesses which funded the first steam ships, first for ships traveling between Ireland and England and then traveling between England and America. The principal partner in both of these companies (and I assume a personal friend of Paul Twigg) was Joseph Robinson Pim. This explains something that I found out a little while ago, that one of Paul Twigg's children had the middle name "Robinson" and another had the middle name "Pim" (Charles Robinson Twigg and Joseph Pim Twigg).

Records for the baptisms of these children can be found at http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie .

The company which built ships to go between Ireland and England was "The Saint George Packet Steam Company" as you can see in this Journal
of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. The company with ships going to America was "The British and American Steam Navigation Company" as noted here in A chronological history of the origin and development of steam navigation
By George Henry Preble, John Lipton Lochhead.

According to the latter book, the "Sirius" built by this company was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.