John EYRE (of Wedhampton)

Birth: BEF 1571
Death: 22 SEP 1581

Father: John EYRE
Mother: Alice PAYNE

Family 1: Anne TROPENELL

Marriage: ABT 1544

Marriage: 14 DEC 1579

                                                                   _Thomas EYRE _
                                   _William EYRE _________________|______________
                _John EYRE _______|
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               |                  |_Juliana Joan Julia COCKERELL _|______________
 _John EYRE ___|
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|              |                   _John BUTTON __________________|______________
|              |_Margaret BUTTON _|
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|--John EYRE 
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|               _Stephen PAYNE ___|
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|_Alice PAYNE _|
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Notes

!SOURCE: John Burke, Esq., A GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Vol. III, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1977, p. 290. Of Wedhampton and Chalfield, M.P. for New Sarum in 1571, m. Anne, eldest dau. and co-heir of Thomas Tropenell, esq. of Chalfield, Wilts, and had (with four daughters, Elizabeth, wife of John Bowshire, of Cothil Alford, in Wilts; Mary, of Burdett, of Sunning; Margaret, of Quinton; and Susanna, of Scrope, of Castlecombe) a son and heir, Sir William Eyre, Knt.

!SOURCE: BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1939, p. 729.

!SOURCE: THE VISITATION OF WILTSHIRE, 1623, Publications of the Harleian Library, London, 1954, pp. 57ff. De Wedhampton et Northb et East chaveld in Co Wilts Ar: fil et her; d. 22 Sep. 1581. [Great Chaldfield Par. Reg.] Will pr. 6 Nov. 1581 (P.C.C. 37 Darcy).

!SOURCE: BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. I, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1965, p. 246. Of Wedhampton, and Great Chalfield, Wilts, M.P. for New Sarum 1571, who m. Anne, Heiress of Thomas Tropenell, of Great Chalfield, Wilts. The manor house of Great Chalfield is still standing.

!SOURCE: Barbarann Ayars, samayars@@ohio.net (5/4/97). He was M.P. for Wiltshire in 1562. Wedhampton is a hamlet, and quite rural. He became Sheriff in 1591, and knight of the Shire in 1597.

!SOURCE: Mary Elizabeth Frances Richardson-Eyre, A HISTORY OF THE WILTSHIRE FAMILY OF EYRE, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1897.

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