Hi Theresa Lookup Wikipedia on the internet and search for mental retardation. There are a number of grades for the condition including imbecile and lunatic ...
The Warren Eayrs you mentioned is part of our (Martin and my) family tree.? I cannot give you the exact details as present as I have just had a computer crash...
Martin's post lit my light bulb ... Since I have so little ancestors listed/researched (am at the beginning for the most part) ... I have no clue at this point...
Hi Theresa - and thanks for posting. I think this is Warren Eayrs b. Greetham 16 Apr 1823 to Thomas Eayrs and Ann Warren Idle (the Warren came from Anne's...
Lynn my paperwork is in reasonable order - but remind me, who is 'our elusive Thomas Eayrs'? My brickwall (and I thought it was yours) is George Eayrs m. Mary...
Martin, Thanks for your help! I don't have a subscription at Ancestry.com, so I can't view those records ... have tried many times. :-( Off to go look .......
Some news: ONE I have managed to get the Guild of One-Name Studies (aka GOONS) to accept Eayrs in its own right (previously it was considered to be a subset of...
I have long been thrilled by the story of George Washington Eayrs, a man of good Boston family who in the early C18th, in the face of Spanish law, set himself...
Martin, All I can say is "whoa!" That would be SO great if all of them were connected in some way ... and to your family tree. Got me thinking ... is it true...
Well I read recently that almost everyone in the world has one of six identifiable sets of mitochondrial DNA - which means pretty much all of us are related. ...
AS Martin says, NEVER trust the IGI. It turned my 3x GGF Thomas Eayres, (son of Nathaniel Eayres born c1746 at Sudborough, and his wife Kezia of the Islip...
Hello again. I don't think it's 6 sets of mitochondrial DNA world wide, but certainly in the book 'Seven daughters of Eve' it is postulated that all native...
HI, I've just got in to work and read Martin's reply, (no pc at home), and I'd like to query Martin's definition of 'imbecile'. The Joseph I mentioned in my...
I'm wondering if anyone has any more info on Luther George Ingram EAYRS, son of James Burrows EAYRS and Jane THRAVES. The bare bones ... Luther George Ingram...
Theresa, It's good to know you exist *chuckles* ;-) Thank you for sharing your experience. Hmmm... Kezia ... that's an unusual English name, isn't it? Is it ...
While I'm not an Eayrs, but an Eyre (and possible an Eayre) ... I would also like to be apart of DNA studies. Only my Dad and his two brothers are alive as...
Martin, Your long Monday morning post was most welcomed and confirmed much of what I thought. I concur with the research methods, as I studied physics and...
I was going through Cindi's List lists of new websites and found a blog about a women's methodology about researching genealogy, especially Irish genealogy and...
Hi Barb, Keziah/Kezia, is the full name, and it's biblical, it means cassia (a plant). Kezia Loveday introduced the name to our family, there were several...
I spent a good while looking round an interesting website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ . This is a collection of transcripts of New...
Theresa, That is really neat! A cool piece of family genealogy trivia. So far, just in 4 generations, we have 5 James and 4 Williams ... in 6 people LOL....
I got this information some years ago from a Mr AJ Butterworth of Corby in Northants. Eayres of Kettering: Generaation 1?? John Eayre Constable in 1662...
I just wanted to mention that there is an article in Northamptonshire Past & Present vol 1, no 5, 1952, pp 10-23 entitled Thomas Eayre of Kettering and other...
I've now started an Eayrs blog at http://martineayrs.blogspot.com/. It gives me the chance to post little snippets I come across that I can't relate to ...
Today in the mail, I received the copy of my great-grandparent's marriage certificate from New York. Only took about 2 weeks. Not bad at all! James W. Eyre was...
You know who you are! LOL I know I'm a tad late, but have been avoiding the computer as part of my vacation ... even though I haven't once left the house...
Hi All, One of the families linked to 'my' Eayres family of Northants, England, are the Lovedays. I was tracing Loveday lines when I discovered the marriage of...
I have this in my data base Name: Thomas EAYRS, E620, 1498, M ... Birth Date: 1798 Birth Place: Bourne Death Date: 6 Jan Occupation: Cooper Father: Thomas...
Thanks Martin. I had discovered some of this for myself, since posting, but it's always good to have the infomation verified. Many thanks, Theresa ... wife 52,...
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