Col. Giles EYRE

• Christening: 19 JUL 1766
• Death: 1830

• Marriage: 28 SEP 1792

1. John EYRE
2. Richard EYRE
3. Anne EYRE
4. Anchoretta EYRE
5. Jane EYRE
6. Eleanor Anne EYRE

1. Giles EYRE

                                                                          _John EYRE __________
                                                _John "Proud_Eyre" EYRE _|_Mary BYGOE _________
                    _The_Very_Rev. Giles EYRE _|
                   |                           |                          _Sir George PRESTON _
                   |                           |_Margery PRESTON ________|_____________________
 _Richard EYRE ____|
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|                  |                            _Sir Richard COX ________|_____________________
|                  |_Mary COX _________________|
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|--Col. Giles EYRE 
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|                                                                         _Col. Samuel EYRE ___
|                                               _Capt. John EYRE ________|_Jane EYRE __________
|                   _Col. Samuel EYRE _________|
|                  |                           |                          _Thomas WILLINGTON __
|                  |                           |_Mary WILLINGTON ________|_____________________
|_Anchoretta EYRE _|
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                   |                            _Sir Thomas DANCER ______|_____________________
                   |_Charity DANCER ___________|
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Notes

!SOURCE: A GENEALOGY AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Vol. I, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1977, p. 594.

!SOURCE: BURKE'S IRISH FAMILY RECORDS, American Edition, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1976, p. 396.

!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. 14, 15. Col. Giles Eyre, of Eyrecourt, succeeded his uncle, Lord Eyre, at Eyrecourt. He m. 28th Sept., 1792, Anne, dr. of Michael Daly, as his first wife; secondly, he m. Sophia, dr. of J. Walsh, of Walsh Park, Tipperary. He was Colonel of the Galway Militia and Master of the Galway Hounds, better known as "The Blazers." With regard to Giles Eyre I must quote a verse from "The Man for Galway," as given in Lever's "Charles O'Malley." "The King of Oude Is mighty proud, And so were once the Caymars (Caesars), But old Giles Eyre Would make them stare, Av he had them with 'The Blazers.' To the devil I fling -- ould Rangcet Sing, He's only a Prince in a small way, And knows nothing at all of a six foot wall; Oh, he'd never 'do for Galway.'" The memory of Col. Giles Eyre still flourishes in hunting circles. The IRISH TIMES, in 1898, in a leader on the Ormond Hunt, thus writes: -- "Giles Eyre was on a visit to the Ormondes, and, getting into a part of the country to which he was stranger, rushed straight for a six-fee wall which he cleard to find himself landed in a quarry-hole 30 feet deep on the other side. By a hunting miracle rider and horse alighted alive in the depths beneath. 'What's over there?' shouted some of the followers who had come up, and scarcely cared to take the wall on approbation. 'I am, thank God,' replied Giles, in his great stentorian tones." Giles d. in 1830, leaving issue by his first wife.