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Deposition of Joane Allen

  • Reference:  MS 813, fols 317r-317v
  • County: Kildare
  • Date: 16/3/1644
  • Type: Dublin Original
  • Nature of Deposition: Killing, Robbery
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    • fol. 317r


    Joane Allen the relict of William Allen late of Mounstereven in the County of Kildare gent sworne and examined before his Maiesties Commissioners deposeth and saith That about the xxiiijth of November 1641 she this deponent & her said husband at Mounstereven aforesaid were forceibly deprived robbed or otherwise dispojled of their Cattle horses Corne hay housholdgoods <550 li.> provision and other their goods chattells & estate worth ffive hundred powndes besids 50 li. in debts: by the Rebells Captain Henry Dempsy & the by Lishagh <A> Dempsy now lord of Clanmelero and his by one Thomas Watts of Cooleferry in the parrish of Mounstereven Chapman and by one Lishagh mcDempsy of Cloonegowney in the Queens County gent & by others whose names she cannot expresse And (to her farr greater losse and greif), the said William Allen her husband about the [fir la st] xxiijth of october 1642: goeing out of his howse into the feilds nere hand. was then and there slaine murthered by the Rebells leaving her a poore robbed widow and fowre children fatherles
    Signum predictæ Johannae
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    Jur 16o Marcij 1643
    Hen: Jones Hen: Brereton

    792
    Joane Allen of Munstereven

    fol. 317v



    Kildare 155
    Joane Allen Jur 16o
    Marcij 1643
    Intw
    24 no
    murther



    Henry Brereton
    Henry Jones



     

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