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Edmund's parents moved around a lot but settled in Hoylake, Wirral in the mid 1860s. The only link I can find with the Kyrke-Smith ancestry is a tentative one through the famous Roe family but have discounted that because Edward SMITh and his wife didn't give any of their children a Roe moniker.
Endmund appears to have gone to sea and I can't find any link to the Kyrke-Smith ancestors other than a vague co-location (Liverpool).

I've been researching the Kyrkes of Chapel-en-le-Frith including those that moved away. I have chanced upon the Kyrke-Smiths of West Derby going back to Henry Kyrke SMITH b 1851. He was the youngest of the children of Edward SMITH and his wife Sarah MAY. I do have tentative ancestry of this couple but neither this ancestry nor exploration of neighbours and other possibilities has uncovered the reason for the Kyrke moniker. Do you have any ideas?
This topic has been previously, incompletely covered in the Kyrkes at Gwersyllt topic in the Denbighshire section.

I'm transcribing a will made xiiijth day of Aprill 1562 in English that is in Gothic script (D6771/1/8/1 from Derbyshire Record Office) and mentions the testator (John Byrd, relict Agnes) Birr as the residence, confirmed by wanting to be buryed in the churche yarde of Birr aforesaid Itm I geve and bequeth to the mother churche of Elye iiijd.

Please, any idea where Birr might be?
 

It's the anniversary of the Battle of Marston Moor!
My family has passed down the story that our ancestor Peter ORMEROD (b after 1610 Gambleside, Burnley, m Alice HAYDOCK buried 14 Dec 1689) fought at this engagement. Given that Charles TOWNELEY of Towneley, Burnley led an infantry unit (???regiment according to Townley family history handed down) in the Marquis of Newcastle's army and the catholic leaning of the Haydock family, it is possible that Peter was in that unit. Charles died at the battle and is buried somewhere on the battlefield. My Peter was not likely to have been an officer and I have not been able to find his name listed in any documentation that I have found over the last 30 years. If anybody has access to otherwise inaccessible information or has another idea, please shout out.

Hi Turia
My Roe family research was tangential to my research into the Kyrkes and I have not retained my material.
I remember reading Dorothy Bentley Smith's book on Charles Roe but do not think the baptism details of Rev Thomas Roe came from that book. If you are interested in Charles Roe, then you ought to read that book, not just the online material.
I wouldn't have cited 1670 baptism unless I was fairly satisfied it was right but at this point in time cannot stand by it. Apologies for not being able to help.