Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (??-??-1772) lag beneden de 16 jaar (14).
Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Giles.
Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1772 te Wexford County, Ireland, hij was toen 14 jaar oud.
Spouse: Elizabeth WEBSTER (born Giles)Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1772 te Wexford County, Ireland, hij was toen 14 jaar oud.
Spouse: Robert WEBSTER, I
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Robert was killed in the rebellion war of 1798 in Ireland
Register of Losses for the rebellion of 1798 in Ireland; " WEBSTER,Robert*of Garrybrit, murdered in cold blook on the bridge of Enniscorthy; left a widow and eleven children, property burned , his eldest son Major Edward Webster of Bannakeen Dragoons Cavalry, parish of Kilcormuck.
1797-8 Rebellion was a blood thirsty religious strife between the Catholics & Protestants. The Catholics had the view of cleaning out of the Protestants in southern Ireland.At a given signal they rose to arms.
Major Edward Webster was called to arms and was away the the night the family home was broken into and plundered. A farm employee leading the mob drove a pitch fork to the head of Robert.
The entire family was locked in the house & the house set on fire. When the building was in flames the screams of the children penetrated the heart of an old Catholic servant who stealthily opened the door and assisted the family to escape. For two nights and a day the family clad only in their night clothes hid in hedges & ditches nearby. They attemted to escape & walk about six miles distant to Wexford, where the British troops where stationed. While crossing the bridge over the Slaney River at Enniscorthy the rebels surrounded them. Robert who was caring his son Nathaniel was ordered to bare his chest. he was then Piked by seven pikes, lifted over their heads, and held for a time before being thrown over the railing into the river far below. If not already dead from the pikes, the fall to the shallow river below would have killed Robert. At the same time young Nathanial was being tramped by the mob until rescued by his sister Mary but not before he was maimed for life.
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