'Eyre05'
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Families covered: Eyre of Hassop [This family is still being researched.]

Stephen Eyre of Hassop (a 1488)
m. Catherine Dymoke (dau of _ Dymoke of Kyme)
1. Rowland Eyre of Hassop (a 1488)
  m. Dorothy or Alice Everingham (dau of Henry Everingham of Stainhouse)
  A. Stephen Eyre of Hassop
  m1. Helen Downes (dau of _ Downes of Shrigley)
  m2. Anne Blackwell (dau of Thomas Blackwell of Shirley)
  i. Rowland Eyre of Hassop (d 1624)
  m. Gertrude Stafford (dau of Humphrey Stafford of Eyam)
Commoners ends with this Rowland & Gertrude. BP1934 (Newburgh) starts with Francis Eyre of Warkworth who succeeded to Hassop after the death of his nephew in 1792. The intervening generations have been inserted following cross-references from elsewhere in the database and so may be wrong, not least in the event of a squire having only daughters and being succeeded by his brother.
  a. Thomas Eyre of Hassop probably of this generation, father of Mary, possibly father of ...
  (1) Thomas Eyre of Hassop possibly of this generation, father of Anne
  Probably one or two intervening generations before ...
  (A) Rowland Eyre of Hassop
  m. Elizabeth Plunkett (dau of Luke Plunkett, 3rd Earl of Fingall) father lived 1639-c1684
possibly parents of ...
  (i) Thomas Eyre of Hassop
  (a) Catherine Eyre (dsp)
  m. (10.06.1750) Thomas Clifton of Westby, Clifton and Lytham (bpt 09.06.1728, d 11.05.1783)
  possibly parents of ...
  (ii) Rowland Eyre of Hassop possibly the Rowland who married ...
  m. Mary Widdrington (b 11.10.1713, dau of William Widdrington, 4th Lord of Blankney) possibly mother of ...
  (a) Margaret Eyre daughter of Rowland
  m. (1763) Francis Farquharson, 6th of Monaltrie (dsp 1791)
probably either Thomas or Rowland were parents of ...
  (a) ?? Eyre of Hassop
  Presumed intermediary generation before ...
  ((1)) Thomas Eyre of Hassop
  Thomas may have been the squire of Hassop who died in 1792 and was succeeded by his uncle Francis of Warkworth.
  m. (23.07.1776) Mary Belasyse (dau of Thomas Belasyse, Earl Fauconberg)
  (b) Francis Eyre of Warkworth, later of Hassop (d 07.10.1804) possibly of this generation
m. (11.02.1755) Mary Radclyffe (b 05.04.1732, d 27.08.1898, dau of Charles Radclyffe, 'Earl of Derwentwater' by Charlotte Maria Livingstone, Countess of Newburgh)
  ((1)) Francis Eyre of Hassop, 'Earl of Newburgh' (b 10.02.1762, d 23.10.1827)
  Francis used the title Earl of Newburgh but took no steps to establish the title formally.
  m. (29.08.1787) Dorothy Gladwin (d 02.11.1838, dau of John Gladwin of Mansfield)
  ((A)) Thomas Eyre, later Radclyffe-Livingstone-Eyre of Hassop, 'Earl of Newburgh' (b 21.10.1790, dsp 22.03.1833)
  Thomas claimed the title Earl of Newburgh but no proceedings had been taken before he died.
  m. (14.11.1817) Margaret Kennedy (b 16.06.1800, d 03.09.1889, dau of Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa)
  ((B)) Francis Eyre, later Radclyffe-Livingstone-Eyre of Hassop, 'Earl of Newburgh' (b 07.07.1794, d unm 15.10.1852)
  Francis used the title Earl of Newburgh but took no steps to establish the title formally.
  ((C)) Dorothea Eyre of Hassop, 'Countess of Newburgh' (b 13.07.1788, dsp 22.11.1853)
  Dorothea used the title Countess of Newburgh but took no steps to establish the title formally.
  m. (21.07.1836) Charles Leslie of Balquhain (Colonel)
  ((D))+ other issue (d unm) - Mary (b 12.10.1789, d 05.10.1813), Charlotte (b 06.06.1792, d 06.083.1813), Anne (b 16.05.1796, d 25.04.1802), Barbara (b 18.05.1798, d 13.04.1849, nun), Radclyffe (b 27.05.1802, bur 01.08.1840)
  ((2)) James Eyre of Metz (d 1816)
  m. Theresa Jossephine de Chenencourt
((A)) Caroline Eyre (d unm 16.04.1838)
  ((3)) Charles Eyre (d unm 1819)
  ((4)) Mary Eyre (dsp 14.05.1800)
  m. (09.04.1793) Arthur Onslow
  (ii) Catharine Eyre (a 11.1719) daughter of Rowland of Hassop, possibly of this generation
  m. (by 1707) Sir William Stanley, Bart of Hooton (bpt 11.11.1679, d 07.1740)
  (iii) Anne Eyre daughter of Rowland of Hassop, possibly of this generation
  m. Robert Dormer of Grove Park
  (B) Anne Eyre daughter of Thomas of Hassop
  m. Sir James Poole, 1st Bart of Poole
(2) Mary Eyre daughter of Thomas of Hassop
  m. (by 1619) John Biddulph of Biddulph (d 1642)
  (3) Prudence Eyre daughter of Thomas of Hassop
  m. Sir Thomas Trentham of Rocester (b c1594)
  b. Adam Eyre possibly of this generation
  (1) Gertrude Eyre
  m. William Strelley of Beaucliff (a 1614)
  c. Mary Eyre probably of this generation
  m. William Blundell of Crosby (a 1648)
  d. Gertrude Eyre probably of this generation
  m. Sir Thomas Fleetwood, 2nd Bart of Caldwick
  e. Dorothy Eyre possibly of this generation
  m. Edward Fowler of St. Thomas (bur 28.11.1623)
  ii. Dorothy Eyre
  m. John Roberts of Loughton le Morthen
  iii. Jane Eyre
iv. Anne Eyre
  m. William Parker of Whitley
  v. Mary Eyre
  m. John Staveley of Redseats
  vi. Catherine Eyre
  m. George Needham of Thornset
  B. Elizabeth Eyre
  m. George Blackwell of Tidswell
  C. Anne Eyre
  m. Anthony Longsden of Longsden
  D. Ellen or Margaret Eyre (d 15.06.1573) probably of this generation
  m1. Hugh Wadd of Aston
  m2. John Fanshawe of Fanshawe Gate (b 1504, d 22.02.1578)
2. Elizabeth Eyre
  m. John Curzon of Kedleston, Sheriff of Derbyshire (a 1474, d 1513-4)
3. Jane Eyre
  m. John Ireton of Ireton

Main source(s): Commoners (iv, Eyre of Rampton), BP1934 (Newburgh), TCP (Newburgh)
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