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- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for ELIZABETH SHAW
Siege of Londonderry
Some facts about the Siege of Londonderry - 18 April 1689 to 1 August 1689
The Siege proper lasted for 105 days but the citizens and the garrison were pent up by the presence of first, the Earl of Antrim`s forces from 7 December 1688, and then by King James` forces, to 31 July 1689 a total of 236 days.
King James retreated from Londonderry on the evening of 31 July 1689, having lost between 8-10,000 men.
Troops in the City at 19 April 1689 7,361
Living at close of Siege 4,000 (of these 1000 unfit for
service)
Killed and died of disease 3361
Civilian deaths 7,000
Total killed/died in Londonderry 10,361 approx.
Shells/bombs fired into the City between 24 April and 21 July 1689 (on 34 days) totalled 584.
The worst days were 3 June (28), 4 June (36), 6 June (30, 8 June (35) , 11 June (28), 13 June (26), 3 July (30), 15 July (26), 21 July (28).
The price of provisions, when they could be found were:
A quart of meal 1s.0d
One pound of horseflesh 1s.8d
One pound of tallow 4s.0d
One pound of salted hides 1s.0d
One pound of greaves 1s.0d
1/4 of a dog (fattened by
eating corpses) 5s.6d
A dogs head 2s.6d
A quart of horse blood 1s.0d
A horses pudding (gut) 0s.6d
A cat 4s.6d
A rat. fed on human flesh 1s.0d
A mouse 0s.6d
A handful of sea wreck
(sea weed) 0s.2d
A handful of chick weed 0s.1d.
The soldiers/defenders were allowed 1/2lb of meal, 1/2lb of shelled oats, 1/2lb dry salted hides, daily.
Water as could be found, was mainly contaminated.
By the 28th July there were only nine lean horses left alive.
25 Clergymen remained in the City - 17 Church of Ireland and 8 Presbyterians
Ch of Ireland:
Rev Geo. Walker, Donaghmore, Dungannon
Chris Jenney, Mullaghbrack
Moses Davis, Donagheady
John Knox, Glasslough
Bartholomew Black, Aghanloo
T Semple, Donaghmore, near Castlefin
Robert Morgan, Cappagh
John Campbell, Sego
Andrew Robertson, Derryloran
Michael M1`Clenaghan, Derry
Michael Christy, Monaghan
Seth Whittle, Bellaghy
William Cunningham, Killishandra
Richard Crother, Comber
James Watmough, Errigal
John Rowen,Balteagh
John Ellingsworth, near Newry.
Presbyterian ministers:
Thomas Boyd, Aghadoey
William Brooke, Ballykelly
John Bowat, Lifford
John Hamilton, Donagheady
Robert Wilson, Strabane
David Brown, Urney
William Gilcrist, Kilrea
John M`Kenzie, Derryloran.
drw111added this on 27 Feb 2012
Patricia Dernisonoriginally submitted this to Blanche Davis_gedcom on 13 Jun 2011
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