John EYRE, (Lord Eyre of Eyrecourt)

Abt 1720 - 1781  (~ 61 years)

• Name	John EYRE  [1]
  Suffix	(Lord Eyre of Eyrecourt)
  Born	Abt 1720	County Cork
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	1720	Cork, Ireland   [1, 2, 3]
  Died	30 Sep 1781	Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland   [1, 4]
  Buried	Aft 30 Sep 1781	Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland
  Person ID	I4466	Chap 08 Eyrecourt
  Last Modified	29 May 2013

  
  

  Father	Dean Giles EYRE,   d. 17 Jan 1757, Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland
  Mother	Mary COX,   d. Bef 28 Aug 1740, Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland
  Married	30 Dec 1717	Cork, Ireland   [2, 3, 5]
  Family ID	F19	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor STAUNTON
  Married	1746  [1, 2, 3]
  Children	1. John EYRE,   b. Abt Jun 1747,   d. Est Jul 1747, Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland  (Age ~ 0 years)   2. Mary EYRE,   d. Nov 1775, Lost at Sea
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2021
  Family ID	F21	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  John Eyre entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a Fellow Commoner, 15 July, 1738. was a member of the Irish House of Commons, but was raised to the Peerage as Baron Eyre of Eyrecourt in 1768. On the death of Lord Eyre, without male issue, the title became extinct, whilst the Castle and Estates of Eyrecourt passed to his nephew Giles, eldest son of his next brother Richard who had predeceased him.

  
  

• Sources

  [S277] Eyrecourt & Eyreville, Rev A S Hartigan, (Rev A S Hartigan, Trinity College, Dublin, 1905), Page 12 (Reliability: 3). [S1] Eyre Notes & Queries, Rev A S Hartigan, (Rev Allen Stewart Hartigan. MA, TCD,, Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh. Glos., 1911-1918), Page 110 (Reliability: 3). [S7] Parish and Mi Cemetery records, D Eyre, (Citation), Pedigree Eyrecourt #0016 dated 11/8/97 (Reliability: 3). [S1] Eyre Notes & Queries, Rev A S Hartigan, (Rev Allen Stewart Hartigan. MA, TCD,, Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh. Glos., 1911-1918), Page 112 (Reliability: 3). [S16] Parish record, LDS, (1984) (Reliability: 2).