hallmark,
So sorry for the delay in responding ... life ..
Let's see ...
For the
1798 Claimants and Surrenders listing, I have:
- Henry Eyre, Farmer, Kilpatrick, Co. Wexford
- John Eyre, Farmer, Ballinvally, Kilnamanagh, Co. Wexford [son of Henry]
- William Eyre, Ballinvally, Kilnamanagh, Co. Wexford [last son of John, my gg-grandfather]
I have a compilation of
Kilnamanagh Baptismal Register 1818-36, which lists the children of John and Sarah [Edwards] Eyre ... John being the aforementioned son of Henry Eyre. Ballinvally was listed for all listed children.
Since the first child of John and Sarah was born 1823, I guestimated John's birth year as around 1790-1800. In turn, I guestimated Henry's birth year as 1760-1770 ... for each, figuring they had their first child sometime between the age of 20-30.
Now, a small interesting note ... one of John and Sarah's children was John Pentire Eyre (b. 1835, d. 1912). He married Elizabeth Earle and their family continued on the land until 1966, when Mary Elizabeth died at age 87 (unmarried). According to my distant cousin in Ireland, whom has been able to obtain a good bulk of this information, said the following:
The land that the Eyres lived on in Ballinvally, Co. Wexford (60 acres) and in Kilpatrick, Co. Wexford (20 acres) were given to a Philip Doyne, who was a courtier of King Billy (of the Battle of the Boyne fame in 1693). This land (10,7000 acres) was in counties Wexford and Carlow. The gentleman died and his widow, Anne, married Giles Eyre of Eyrecourt.
The Eyres in Ballinvally and Kilpatrick may have come over from England to Wexford at the invitation of Philip Doyne, but this has to be verified.
It's kind of contradictory in how the lands came to be in Eyre hands: via a 2nd marriage or directly from the "original" owner (Doyne). But I have seen Giles name mentioned somewhere (A Google books entry I believe) in relation to having lands in Wexford. I just don't know if the Galway Eyres are connected to us since I have NO genealogy to bridge the two families. [See the Dedication:
http://www.meddows-taylor.com/Eyre.htm and
http://www.butson.net/who_are_these_eyres.htm]
So, that puts us, at the earliest known time (early 1800s) in Ballinvally, Kilnamanagh, Co. Wexford.
Since I have no birth information for John, nor his father Henry, I can only assume for now that they were both from the same area during their time of birth and growing up.
On a side note, I don't remember where I recently read about this (probably here on Rootschat! LOL), but there is a book you can get at amazon.com called "Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland" by John P Prendergast, 2nd ed, pub. Dublin 1922. The name and address of each Adventurer is listed. The website below lists all listed surnames, which for me includes: Eyres and Ayres. I'm hoping to obtain a copy in the coming months.
http://home.alphalink.com/au/~datatree/wolf 38.html
I honestly have no clue if my cousin and I are chasing a lame duck when it comes to finding out if our Eyre branch started out as some Eyre soldier/officer, who came over with Cromwell in the 1640s, is the one who started our branch in Wexford or not. Since there doesn't seem to be any direct connection to Giles and the Galway Eyres ... this is our only other assumption we can make.
If anyone thinks we are on the wrong track (we're missing the obvious or something), please let me know! We're open to suggestions!
Also, are there any surviving census or other documents from mid to late 1700s Ireland (hopefully Co. Wexford), so that we could find information on Henry???
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