Giles EYRE (of Brickworth)

• Christening: 10 FEB 1607/1608
• Death: 1685

1. Sir Giles EYRE

                                                            _John EYRE __
                                             _Robert EYRE _|_Jane CUSSE _
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 _Giles EYRE _____|
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|--Giles EYRE 
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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.

!SOURCE: BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1939, p. 727. Of Brickworth, M.P. for downton, Wilts, in the first two parliaments after the Restoration, b. 1607, m. Anna, dau. of Sir Richard Norton, of Rotherfield, Hants. He d. 1685, and was s. by his eldest son.

!SOURCE: THE VISITATION OF WILTSHIRE, 1623, Publications of the Harleian Library, London, 1954, pp. 57ff. Egidius Eyre fil: et heres aet 16: annorum 1623; bp. Whiteparish 10 Feb. 1607/8.

!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, M.P. for Downton 1660, bapt. 10 Feb. 1607, m. Anne, dau. of Sir Richard Norton, Bt. of Rotherfield, and had issue. He was ancestor of the Eyres of Brickworth and Landford, Wilts., and of Botleigh Grange, Hants.

!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, pp. 9, 10. Giles Eyre, bap. Feb. 10, 1607, M.P. for Downton, 1660, m. Anne Norton, the dr. of Sir Richard Norton, of Rotherfield, teh friend and associate of Oliver Cromwell. The eldest son of Giles Eyre, another Giles, succeeded to the Brickworth property and was ancestor of the Brickworth Eyres. The property has now passed to the family of Lord Nelson, through his father's marriage with Miss Eyre of Brickworth but the representative of this branch is now continued in the person of Henry Eyre, of Shaw House, near Newbury.

!SOURCE: Mary Elizabeth Frances Richardson-Eyre, A HISTORY OF THE WILTSHIRE FAMILY OF EYRE, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1897, p. 20. The eldest son, also named Giles, succeeded to Brickworth, and was M.P. for Downton in 1660 and 1661. By his marriage with Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Norton of Rotherfield, Hants, he became father of Sir Giles Eyre the Judge, who was admitted a member of LIncoln's Inn in Oct. 1654, and called to the Bar in Nov. 1661.