Walpole Eyre

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 530

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Plantations owned:
Antigua 2 (Nantons) £852 0S 3D [56 Enslaved]

The Eyre name is also connected to the Jamaica mutiny of 1865: an insurrection occurred in October 1865 whose supporters were responsible for a number of deaths. Governor Edward Eyre turned the army loose on the population and allowed the troops to hang hundreds of men, and shoot others indiscriminately. Men and women were flogged at random, some with whips made of piano wire. A thousand Jamaican homes were burnt by soldiers as a warning to future troublemakers. Edward Cardwell, the Colonial Secretary, recalled Governor Eyre back to England, but nothing was done.

Eyre Peninsula in South Australia is also named after a member of the Eyre family.
The descendants of the Eyre family owned a large part of St. John’s Wood.

Walpole Eyre died in 1773 after only six years of married life, from food poisoning at a public dinner after which several guests died as the result of partaking of turtle soup left overnight in a copper saucepan.

Family of Walpole EYRE and Sarah JOHNSON

Husband: Walpole EYRE (bef1734-1773) Wife: Sarah JOHNSON (1744-1823) Children: Henry Samuel EYRE (1770-1851)

John Thomas EYRE (bap.1771, d.1811)  

Sarah EYRE (bap.1772?, d.1774)  

Walpole EYRE (1773-1856)   Marriage  Nov 1767 1  

Husband: Walpole EYRE

Name: Walpole EYRE Sex: Male Father: Kingsmill EYRE (bef1682-1743) Mother: Susannah ATKINSON ( -bef1771) Birth bef 21 May 1734 Pensioners Army Hospital, Chelsea, London, England Baptism 21 May 1734 (age 0) Royal Chelsea Hospital, London, England 2 Death 18 Apr 1773 (age 38) Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England 1 Burial 26 Apr 1773 Burnham Parish Church, Buckinghamshire, England 3

Wife: Sarah JOHNSON

Name: Sarah JOHNSON 1 Sex: Female Father: John JOHNSON ( - ) Mother: Elizabeth UNKNOWN ( - ) Birth 25 Feb 1744 3 Baptism 2 Mar 1744 (age 0) St. Lawrence Jewry and St. Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, London, England 1,3 Death 28 Jul 1823 (age 79) Eltham Church, Kent 1

Child 1: Henry Samuel EYRE

Name: Henry Samuel EYRE Sex: Male Birth 26 Aug 1770 4 Baptism 25 Sep 1770 (age 0) St. Marylebone Church, Westminster, Middlesex, England 1 Title Col Census 6 Jun 1841 (age 70) 22 Bryanston Square, Marylebone, London, England Death 6 Mar 1851 (age 80) 1 Burial 13 Mar 1851 St. Marylebone Church, Westminster, Middlesex, England 2

Additional Information

Census Ind

Child 2: John Thomas EYRE

Name: John Thomas EYRE Sex: Male Spouse: Harriet Margaret AINSLIE (1784?-1856) Baptism 5 Nov 1771 St. John's Wood 5 Death 18 Apr 1811 St. John's Wood 6

Child 3: Sarah EYRE

Name: Sarah EYRE 1 Sex: Female Baptism 1772 (app) Burnham, Wiltshire, England 1 Death 15 Apr 1774 Burnham, Wiltshire, England 1

Child 4: Walpole EYRE

Name: Walpole EYRE Sex: Male Spouse: Elizabeth Annabella JOHNSON (1795-1860) Birth 1773 Baptism 25 Aug 1773 (age 0) St. John's Wood 5 Occupation Esquire Census 6 Jun 1841 (age 67-68) 22 Bryanston Square, Marylebone, London, England Death 23 Feb 1856 (age 82-83) Marylebone reg district 5,7 Burial 1 Mar 1856 St. Marys Church, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, England 2

Additional Information

Census Solicitor

Note on Husband: Walpole EYRE

Walpole Eyre succeeded his uncle Henry Samuel Eyre, in the valuable St. John's Wood Estate. He was poisoned at a public

dinner at Salt Hill, Slough, by food cooked in a copper vessel. He was called Walpole after his godfather, Sir Robert Walpole.1

Note on Wife: Sarah JOHNSON

Sir Joshua Reynolds described Sarah as 'the most beautiful woman he had ever seen'.

Sources

1 Rev A S Hartigan, "Eyre Notes and Queries (#1)" (Rev Allen Stewart Hartigan. MA, TCD,, Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh. Glos., 1911-1918). Page 71.

2 "Parish Record (on file)".

3 "IGI".

4 "A History of the Wiltshire Family of Eyre".

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Walpole EYRE

   Father: Kingsmill EYRE

   Mother: Elizabeth ATKINSON

   Baptism: 1735, Burnham, Buckinghamshire

   Death: 18 APR 1773, Burnham, Buckinghamshire

Partnership with: Sarah JOHNSON
Marriage: 1768
Child: Henry Samuel EYRE Baptism: 26 AUG 1770
Child: John Thomas EYRE Baptism: 05 NOV 1771, St. John's Wood
Child: Sarah EYRE Baptism: ABT 1772, Burnham, Wiltshire
Child: Walpole EYRE Baptism: 25 AUG 1773, St. John's Wood
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