Gilbert Family - Ourfolk
Joanne Gilbert (Penn)
Joanne was married to Giles Penn on 5 NOV 1600 in St. Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol.
Giles was born on 1573 and died on 1641/1656 in Fex Or, Morocoo .
He was the son of William Penn (1548 - 12 MAR 1610) and Margaret Rastall (Penn) (B: ABT 1547/1556).
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Son - Admiral Sir William Penn (b.1621 - d.1670) - Admiral Sir William was born on 23 APR 1621 in St Thomas Parish, Bristol and died on 16 SEP 1670 (age: 49) in Wanstead, Essex
On December 28, 1635/6 Charles I King of England with the advice of Captain Rainsborough and Mr. Giles Penn, made the decision to besiege the pirates in port. Rainsborough departs with four ships February 20, 1636-7. Upon departure the instructions are to take all Turkish Frigates and block up the port of Sallee. They destroyed 28 ships and hemmed in the port. The Governor of the port began to lend assistance, and the port was delivered into Raisborough s hands July 28th, 1636-7.
There was an alliance formed with King Charles I and a treaty was reached insuring that the Moroccan s never infest the English ports again. Initially 300 captives were handed over to the English forces. Captain Carteret promptly returned to England with the newly freed. Rainsborough stayed, he continued to try and free another 1,000 captives who had been sold to Tunis and Algiers. Rainsborough returned to England with the new ambassador November 5, 1636-7. A procession at night with much Pomp was noted to have taken place. Captive English and Irish who were missing as long as 30 years were finally returned to their homeland. In the procession the captives were dressed in white robes, accounts of the day describe there being so many white robes it was as if it were daylight.
The capture and return of English and Irish is noted in various literature of the time. In 1901 Henry F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings of England notes a sermon, found in Oxford s records by Rev. Charles Fitz-Geffry of St. Dominic in Plymouth taken from Hebrew 13:3, Remember them that are in bonds, as bond with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body the sermon titled Compassion towards Captives, chiefly towards our Brethren & Countryman who are in such miserable bondage in Barbary. Waters also recollects another document from the same period as reading, It is certainly known that there are five Turks in the Severne, where they weekly take English or Irish; and there are a great number of their ships in the Channel upon the coast of France and Biscay Whereby it is come to pass that our mariners will no longer go to sea, nor from port to port; yea, the fishermen dare not put to sea to take fish for the country. If timely prevention be not used, the Newfoundland fleet must of necessity suffer by them in an extraordinary manor.
(Penn Family History and Genealogy)
There was an alliance formed with King Charles I and a treaty was reached insuring that the Moroccan s never infest the English ports again. Initially 300 captives were handed over to the English forces. Captain Carteret promptly returned to England with the newly freed. Rainsborough stayed, he continued to try and free another 1,000 captives who had been sold to Tunis and Algiers. Rainsborough returned to England with the new ambassador November 5, 1636-7. A procession at night with much Pomp was noted to have taken place. Captive English and Irish who were missing as long as 30 years were finally returned to their homeland. In the procession the captives were dressed in white robes, accounts of the day describe there being so many white robes it was as if it were daylight.
The capture and return of English and Irish is noted in various literature of the time. In 1901 Henry F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings of England notes a sermon, found in Oxford s records by Rev. Charles Fitz-Geffry of St. Dominic in Plymouth taken from Hebrew 13:3, Remember them that are in bonds, as bond with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body the sermon titled Compassion towards Captives, chiefly towards our Brethren & Countryman who are in such miserable bondage in Barbary. Waters also recollects another document from the same period as reading, It is certainly known that there are five Turks in the Severne, where they weekly take English or Irish; and there are a great number of their ships in the Channel upon the coast of France and Biscay Whereby it is come to pass that our mariners will no longer go to sea, nor from port to port; yea, the fishermen dare not put to sea to take fish for the country. If timely prevention be not used, the Newfoundland fleet must of necessity suffer by them in an extraordinary manor.
(Penn Family History and Genealogy)
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