Survivors of the 1631 sacking of Baltimore

[Rathmore02]

Hi all
Many of you will be aware that Baltimore (Co. Cork) was attacked by Barbery pirates in 1631, with at least 107 residents (up to 237 in some reports) being captured and taken back to Algiers.  Only four were to escape, these by way of ransom.

Barbery slavers were a serious business along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts (as far north as Iceland), with 1 - 1.25 million slaves taken during the 16th - 18th centuries.

The 'From-Ireland' website (https://www.from-ireland.net/baltimore-raid-cork-1631/) provides a list of those taken from Baltimore, and this includes "Thomas Payne, himself, wife and two children". 

From what I've read, it seems likely that Thomas would end up a galley slave, his wife a concubine or house slave, and their children adopted.

My chief interest is to find if this Thomas Payne is an ancestor of the Paynes that were in and around Baltimore in the 1800's.

It seems were survivors in the village - the raid starting at the southwest end of town and petering out as people awoke with the noise - and surrounding farms were not attacked, so Thomas could have had a brother who escaped...

Has anybody got any info regarding those who survived the sacking?

Richard Payne
 

[Sinann]

From the book The Stolen Village by Des Ekin
“ The raid had delivered a crushing blow to the once prosperous port. It seems that most of the survivors, dreading another invasion, moved further inland to establish a new colony at Skibbereen.
Thus began Baltimor’s long process of decline……….
By 1837 there was a temporary recovery.”

Than came the Great Hunger.