Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

John Eyre

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1226 
  • Father:
  • Simon Eyre 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Hubbard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Feb 1653/1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 13 Nov 1707 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Katherine Brattle
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 May 1680 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Bethiah Eyre (Ahnentafel No:613 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Eyre's surname is also seen as Eire.

• Sources for John Eyre

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, p. 222, Birth record for daughter Bethiah Eyre.
  • ² Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 50.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1906, Vol. 60, p. 231.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855, Vol. 9, p. 252, Birth record for John Eire.
  • ⁵ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 524, Marraige record for John Eyre and Catharine Brattle.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1990, Vol. 65, p. 17.
  • ⁷ Harris, Edward Doubleday, An Account of Some of the Descendants of Capt. Thomas Brattle, Boston: D. Clapp and Son (1867), 25-27.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 27.

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