John LE_EYRE (of Wedhampton)

Father: Galfridus II LE_EYR

Family 1: Eleanor Helen CROOKE

Simon EYRE

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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, Wiltshrie, m. Eleanor, dau. and heir of John Crooke, of Erchefonte, in the same county, and was father of Simon Eyre.

!SOURCE: BURKE'S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1939, p. 729. Of Urchfont and Wedhampton, Wilts, m. Eleanor, dau. and heir of John Crooke, of Urchfont, of an ancient family in Wiltshire.

!SOURCE: THE VISITATION OF WILTSHIRE, 1623, Publications of the Harleian Library, London, 1954, pp. 57ff. De Bromham in Co Wilts. Johannes Eyre de Woodhampton et Northcomb in Com Wilts.

!OMMISSION: 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, omits this generation, placing both Stephen [RIN 6] and Simon [RIN 9] as sons of Galfridus Le Heyr [RIN 5].

!SOURCE: Mary Elizabeth Frances Richardson-Eyre, A HISTORY OF THE WILTSHIRE FAMILY OF EYRE, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1897, p. 14. Simon Eyre... was son of John Eyre of Wedhampton, who recovered seisin of his land in Urchfont by the name of John le Eyr time of Edward III., by his wife Eleanor, daughter and heiress of John Crooke of Urchefonte, Wilts.

!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. 5, 6. Simon married Eleanor, the dr. and heiress of John Crooke, of Urchfont, in the County of Wilts, and according to the visitations hea had his seat at Wedhampton, in the Parish of Urchfont. He recovered seisen of his lands in Urchfont by the name of John Le Eyr, in the reign of Edward II. He left issue, one son.

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