Giles EYRE (of Brickworth)

• Christening: 27 FEB 1572
• Death: JAN 1655
• Burial: 16 JAN 1655, Whiteparish

• Marriage: 1603

1. Giles EYRE
2. Rev. William EYRE
3. Robert EYRE
4. Jana EYRE
5. Anna EYRE
6. Elizabeth EYRE
7. John EYRE
8. Thomas EYRE
9. Edward EYRE
10. Henry EYRE
11. Ambrose EYRE

                                                        _William EYRE _________________
                                          _John EYRE __|_Juliana Joan Julia COCKERELL _
                           _Robert EYRE _|
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 _Thomas EYRE ____________|
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|--Giles EYRE 
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|                          _John ROGERS _|
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|_Susan Elizabeth ROGERS _|
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Notes

!SOURCE: Sir Bernard Burke, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DORMANT, ABEYANT, FORFEITED, AND EXTINCT PEERAGES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1978, p. 193. Esq. of Brickworth, Wilts, high sheriff of that co. in 1640, was bapt. in 1572, he m. Jane, dau. of Ambrose Snelgrove, Esq., of Redlynch and had issue.

!SOURCE: BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1939, pp. 727, 729. Of Brickworth, near Salisbury, Sheriff of Wilts, 1640, 2nd son of Thomas Eyre, of Salisbury, who d. 1628 (See Eyre of St. John's Wood for earlier lineage), suffered much for his oppostion to the government measures temp. James I and Charles I, and sat with three of his sons in the Council of Oliver Cromwell, bapt. 27 Feb. 1572; m. 1603, Jane, dau. and heiress of Ambrose Snelgrove, of Redlynch, Wilts. He was bur. at Whiteparish 16 Jan 1655, having had issue.

!SOURCE: THE VISITATION OF WILTSHIRE, 1623, Publications of the Harleian Library, London, 1954, pp. 57ff. Egidius Eyre 2 filius of Brickworth; bp. Feb. 1572, d. Jan. 1655. M.I. Whiteparish. High Sheriff 1640.

!SOURCE: Sir Bernard Burke, BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY OF IRELAND, edited by L.G. Pine, 4th Edition, Burke's Peerage Ltd., London, 1958, p.259. Of Brickworth, Wilts., Sheriff 1640, who sat, with three of his sons, in the Council of Oliver Cromwell, was 2nd son of Thomas Eyre, of New Sarum, bapt. 27 Feb. 1572; m. 1603, Jane, dau. and heiress of Ambrose Snelgrove, of Redlynch, Wilts., and d. Jan. 1655, having had, with other issue, Giles.

!SOURCE: Rev. Allen Stewart Hartigan, M.A. in A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF EYRE OF EYRECOURT AND EYRE OF EYREVILL IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY, nd, p. 8. Giles Eyre, the second son..., was the founder of the Brickworth and Irish branches of the family. He was born in 1572, and was High Sheriff for Wilts in 1640. He was a very strong supporter of the Parliamentarian Party, and suffered on account of his opinions. He himself and three of his sons were members of the council of Oliver Cromwell, and two of them, John and Edward Eyre, accompanied the Cromwellian, General Ludlow, to Ireland,a nd founded there, the family of the Irish Eyres. Giles Eyre built the Mansion House of Brickworth, in the parish of Whiteparish. Close by the west door of Whiteparish Church is a tablet to his memory, with this inscription:-- "Buried here Gyles Eyre Esq. adn Jane his wife. A man much oppressed by public power for his laudable opposition to the measures taken in the reigns of James and Charles I. "In the year 1640 (for then well-known Court reasons), he was . . . was afterwrds plundered at Brickworth by the King's soldiers of £2,000 value, and imprisoned for refusing to pay the sum of £400, illegally demanded of him by two instruments under the Privy Seal, bearing date at Oxford, 14th Feb. 1643. He was baptized 1572, died Jan., 1655, having issue seven sons (three of whom were likewise members of Parliament), and four daughters." Over the vestry of Whtieparish church hangs an Esquire's helmet, surmounted by leg coupée, the Eyre crest. The time in which Giles Eyre lived were very troublesome ones, and split up families into two parties. We find that the senior branch of the family, the Eyres of Chalfield, were strong loyalists, and fought for the King. The opinions of Giles made him very obnoxious to many of his neighbors, amongst whom the ancient and courtly family of St. Barbe, of Cowsfield Loveries, in Whiteparish. Edward St. Barbe, by his will, proved in 1643, left his property to his son Edward on condition that he would not intermarry with the daughter of Giles Eyre, Esq., of Brickworth. This condition was observed by Edward St. Barbe, but the Fates in the course of time had their revenge, as in the 19th century, Charles St. Barbe married Mary Foster, dr. of the Rev. Thomas Foster, of Ryhall, Rutland, who was descended through the Eyres of Ashley from Thomas Eyre, the father of Giles Eyre. Giles Eyre m. 1603, Jane Snelgrove, dr. and heiress of Ambrose Snelgrove, of Redlynch, and left issue.