Family of John EYRE and Margaret BITTON

Husband: John EYRE

Wife: Margaret BITTON

Child 1: John EYRE

Child 2: William EYRE

Note on Husband: John EYRE

SOURCE: Mary Elizabeth Frances Richardson-Eyre, A HISTORY OF THE WILTSHIRE FAMILY OF EYRE, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1897. William, though the elder, entered the monastic life, and was elected Prior of the House of Canons Regular of St. Augustine's of Christ Church, Hants; he presided over this religious fraternity eighteen years, and dying in 1520, was buried in the south aisle of the church under the flat stone, with the following inscription, which is still legible: "Jumba Domini Wilielmi Eyre, Vicessimi quint Prioris, Ungus Ecclesiae--qui obiit tetio die Decembris Anno Domini Milessimo ccccc: et xx eligus anime propitietur Deus Amen." By his side was interred his mother--"Hic jacet Joano Cokrell, mater Wilielme Eyre."

!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. 6. William Eyre, who was elected Prior of the Canons of St. Augustine, Christchurch, Hants, in 1502. He died in 1520, and was buried behind the high altar of the Priory Church, under a flat stone (which is still legible), with the following inscriptions: -- "Tumba Domini Wilhelmi Eyre. Vicessimi Quinte Prioris Hujus Ecclesiae qui obiit tertio die decembris anno domini Milessimo CCCCC et XX, cujus anime propitietur Deus." Amen. -- By his side also was buried his mother, the inscription on her tomb being the following:-- "Hic Jacet Joana Cockrell. Mater Wilhelmi Eyre. Prioris Hujus Ecclesiae. Cujus Anime Propitietur Deus. Amen."

Note on Child 1: John EYRE

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. Member of Parliament, for the county of Wilts in 1563, married Alice, daughter and co-heir of Stephen Payne, of Motcombe, in the same shire, and had (with two dau. Mary, who d.s.p. and Edith, the wife of Nicholas Bacon, esq. of Whiteparish) two sons.

!SOURCE: THE VISITATION OF WILTSHIRE, 1623, Publications of the Harleian Library, London, 1954, pp. 57ff. De Wedhampton et Northcomb Ar fil: et heres.

!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, Kt. of the Shire for Wilts 1568.

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