List of Cromwellian Soldiers

[hallmark]

Cromwell in Ireland is now online!


www.tcd.ie/history/1641

All the documentation has been scanned...

[Barbara Eyre]

hallmark - what an excellent find!  However, Co. Wexford is not included in the 10 counties listed. I did try to find Eyre (and variations) but it returned no results. Phooey!  However, I am keeping this link just in case!

[hallmark]

I was looking for a particular name and it wasn't there BUT another name caught my eye and when I read this deposition I saw mention of the name I was looking for. I tried the name as a keyword with no result yet there he was!

Wexford would have been later and I think these are going to be put online but not sure when..

[Barbara Eyre]

Thank you for the update on Wexford, hallmark!

Best of luck in YOUR search 

[marysearch]

Can't help with a Cromwellian soldiers list Barbara, but the invasion of Ireland was over 200 years earlier than the 1860s date in your message (which might have been a typo of course).    Oliver Cromwell was born in 1599, died 1658.   The siege and destruction of Wexford was in October 1649 although some towns (like Enniscorthy and Arklow) had surrendered before that date.   There's loads online where you might find officers' names who were mentioned in reports just by googling.
Good luck, Mary

[Barbara Eyre]

Mary,

Yes, that was a typo (which I just fixed) but I knew the invasion was in the 1640s. 

I have yet, despite of using all kinds of search string tricks, to find a list of officers like you mention ... so if anyone can provide links, I would be grateful.

I have even resorted to contacting various history professors across the US at universities and colleges, but none have contacted me back yet.

If I can't work from 1640's forward to Henry Eyre, nor work from Henry Eyre backwards ... I'm at a complete standstill.  We need the smiley that is banging his head on the brick wall - very apropos LOL.

[Katharine75]

Hi Barbara,

I am doing the same as yourself. Have found an ancestor in Wexford and working towards the information that I do have. I have just had a look in a couple of lists and books that I have been using of late and cannot see your Henry Eyre, but will give you them for reference, and maybe you will see something helpful that I have not.

Ulster ancestry- freepages - has a list of Cromwellian soldiers/adventurers connected with land grants. Only names and does list Eyre.

GOOGLE BOOKS: The Irish and Anglo Irish landed gentry: when cromwell came to ireland or a supplement to Irish pedigrees by John O'Hart. Searchable and readable online.

Have you looked at Pender's Census and found your man on that? And what Barony are you looking at Barbara?

Katharine.

[Barbara Eyre]

Katharine,

Wow! Thanks for your reply.

I know I've looked in several places (public online records/books), but at this time I can not tell you what they were. I've recently moved my office into the living room and things are still in upheaval to where some of my genealogy stuff has been stuffed somewhere I can't easily find it ... small house, shouldn't be too hard to find it LOL.

I know Henry Eyre wouldn't be listed since he was born roughly 1780-ish ... but I was trying to find if any Eyres where given lands in Wexford as a "thank you".  So far, Giles Eyre of Galway is the only one and I have yet to find any connection to the Galway Eyres with my family. 

I am trying to fill in the gap between the Cromwell Invasion and Henry Eyre ... roughly 150 years.  Since I haven't been able to find any info on Henry and work backwards, I was hoping to find that one Eyre who got lands in Wexford and work forwards. There is a lot of documentation of Eyre (ie, the Eyre Dedication, et al), but I just can't seem to connect my family to any of them ... hence the search.

But I'll keep looking!
Best of luck in your search! =)

[marysearch]

Mmmm.   Worrying strategy.  Basic rule.    Never work downwards, always upwards from yourself.