MEMORIAL OF ELIZABETH DOBBYN.
To his excellency Charles Marquis Cornwallis, Lord
Lieutenant, Gen. & Gen. Governor of Ireland.
The memorial of Elizabeth Dobbyn of St.
Mary’s Parish New Ross in the county of
Wexford. “Widow humbly sheweth that your
memorialist is the widow of the late Patrick Dobbyn
of the Parish of Adamstown, Farmer, a protestant
and a loyal subject who because of his religion was
on the 5 th day of June, 1798, inhumanely burned in
the barn of Scullabogue by the rebels, with his
three sons, William 24 (1774-1798), Richard 22,
(1776-1798) and Samuel 20 (1778-1798). also two
second cousins (named Dobbyn) who were first
cousins to the Memorialist, one first cousin to her
husband the late Patrick Dobbyn piked (speared) on
the road, three first cousins to Memorialist piked
on the Wexford Bridge, named Burrell and two killed
at Enniscorthy (one named Copeland other Tuyman),
all murdered by the Rebels because they were
Protestants and loyal subjects to his majesty.