Captain William Armit EYRE b. Abt 1823 Ireland? d. 21 Jul 1855 Clarks Hotel, Little La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Eyre History

Abt 1823 - 1855 (~ 32 years)

Name	William Armit EYRE [1]
Title	Captain
Born	Abt 1823	Ireland?
Gender	Male
Baptism	Abt 1823	Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland [2]
Occupation	21 May 1841 [3]
	Ensign
	William Armit Eyre, Gent to be Ensign by purchase, vice Baring. Dated 21st May 1841.
Occupation	1 Nov 1842 [3]
	Lieutenant
	Ensign William Armit Eyre to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice de Crespigny, who retires. Dated 1st November 1842.
Occupation	1 Sep 1848 [3]
	Paymaster of 47th Regiment
	47th Foot, Lieutenant William Armit Eyre, from the 20th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Douglas Leigh Cox , who retires upon half pay. Dated 1st Sept 1848.
Conviction	23 Jul 1853	Valetta, Malta [4]
	Licence number 2237: William Armit Eyre. Convicted of Embezzling or Fraudulently misapplying the sum of ?1,032 0s 2d at a General Court Marshall at Valetta, Malta, 23 July 1853. Aged 31 years and by trade a Paymaster iof the 47th Regiment of foot. Sentenced to 10 years transportation. Licence granted: 17th January 1855, for early release from Pentonville prison. Comments: Not applied for.
Died	21 Jul 1855	Clarks Hotel, Little La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [5]
	Cause: Suicide
	An inquest held on the 21 July 1855 returned the verdict "Died from the effcets of a wound to the neck , inflicted by himself whilst labouring under temporary insanity."
Person ID	I4498	Chap 08 Eyrecourt
Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

Father	John EYRE, b. 15 May 1794, d. 18 Feb 1856, Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland (Age 61 years)
Mother	Mary ARMIT
Married	21 Aug 1818 [2, 6, 7]
Family ID	F31	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Maria Josephine BALLINGALL, b. 1832, England? , d. Aft 20 Apr 1891 (Age > 59 years)

Married 30 Dec 1843 Somerset Church, Bermuda [8, 9]

Children

	1. William Armit EYRE
	2. John EYRE, b. Jun 1846, Ireland , d. Aft 15 Apr 1910 (Age ~ 64 years)
	3. George Henry Lewis EYRE, b. Between Jan 1848 and Mar 1848, Isle of Wight reg district , d. Aft 1 Jun 1905 (Age ~ 57 years)
	4. Mary Josephine EYRE, b. 10 Feb 1850, Buttervant, Cork, Ireland , d. 25 Jul 1926, Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloope, British Columbia, Canada (Age 76 years)
	5. Cerise Armit EYRE, b. 1 Dec 1852, Corfu, Ionian Islands , d. 27 Jul 1933, Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada (Age 80 years)

Last Modified 4 Nov 2013

Family ID F45 Group Sheet | Family Chart

[S1] Eyre Notes & Queries, Rev A S Hartigan, (Rev Allen Stewart Hartigan. MA, TCD,, Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh. Glos., 1911-1918), page 33 (Reliability: 3).
[S277] Eyrecourt & Eyreville, Rev A S Hartigan, (Rev A S Hartigan, Trinity College, Dublin, 1905), Page 15 (Reliability: 3).
[S297] London Gazette.
[S313] Newspaper, 11 Aug 1853.
Court Martial at Malta - On Saturday, July 23, a general court-martial assembled in the court-martial room , on the square. Major Mitford officiating aas deputy judge advocate. The prisoner , Captain William Armit Eyre, paymaster of the 47th Regiment (who was in charge of Lieut. Ellison, of the same regiment ), stood charged with scandalous conduct in having embezzeled and fraudulently misapplied certain public monies, amounting in the aggregation to the sum of
[S300] The Argus newspaper.
[S1] Eyre Notes & Queries, Rev A S Hartigan, (Rev Allen Stewart Hartigan. MA, TCD,, Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh. Glos., 1911-1918), Page 118 (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), page33 (Reliability: 3).
[S313] Newspaper.

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