Eyre and Worthington-Eyres
2 May 2013 Re: Eyre’s of Eyreville
Hello from South Australia. I have been researching my mother's family from around Kiltormer and Ballinasloe. My dear mum talked to us about her family all of her life which we too (my brothers and I) have grown to love hearing about them and feel we know them but in saying that of course mum knew the families of her older age bracket. I’m really unsure of members in their 30– 65/70 age bracket are still around the town, or have spread around the world.
In the 1980s I caught up with some 2nd & 3rd cousins – the Hyde boys and their families when they visited my mother and father in Adelaide. Mum has now passed and I have been working on the family tree on and off over the years but now retired I am finding the time to find out more about my kinfolk. My mother was a Worthington-Eyre born in Tanunda Sth Aust in 1923 to Robert Eyre Worthington-Eyre and Elizabeth Mary Barter both born in Dublin 1895 and 1896, they married in Wallasey Cheshire England June 1919. My grandfather’s mother was Grace Geraldine Eyre daughter of Thomas Stratford Eyre. My parents visited Ireland in 1972 and 1980 and they met up with Aunt Mary (called Aunt Mamie) Worthington-Eyre (born 1892, died 1985) and mum’s cousins Charity and Anne plus Aunt Marion my grandfather’s sister. They also caught up with the Rockford Hyde’s of Aughrim Ballinasloe and the Hayes of Attykee House families. My parents stayed with the Draeper-Eyre family and always had contact with them. I would love to make contact with some of them and of course return the absolute pleasure of sharing past and present family news from the Australian side.
There is a question I have please I am a little confused about the correct surname of the wife of Thomas Stratford Eyre Born 1822. A lot of research gives her name as Marion Dallas Campbell and other sites as Marion Dallas Russell. I have been unable to find a marriage notice which will give me Marion Dallas's correct maiden name. I would very much appreciate if there is a document with her correct surname at the time of her marriage 13 August 1860 to Thomas Stratford Eyre. Many thanks Angela Mary Eyre Sandery