per records in  Our Houses and Old Families

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a branch of this family was settled in Fishwick at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when a William Eves, husbandman age 50 years, gave evidence in 1515 in the case of Henry Aineswroth Versus Richard Wallis respectint the title to a house in Preston. In 1535, William Eyves is described as a yeoman and held part of the tithes of hay and corn in Fishwick as a yearly tenant of Sir Alexander Osbaldeston. Not long after this date Ralph Eves, was charged in the Ducby Court by James Walton and others with having destroyed " coney" in the lordship, as well by might as by day. and being implicated in an assault arising out of the illegal hunting. In the dispute as to the right of way. 1541 the inhabitants of Fishwick were represented by Richard Eyves. it was no doubt the widow of Richard who in 1577 was returned as suspected to refuse to go to church, and whose good were valued at 100. pounds.

Nearly a century later the leads of this family held to the old form of religion and were treated as delinquents and recusants. From a petition of William Marquis of Hertofd, to the committee for compounding estate dated 1654, we learn that by indentured dates 12, March, 14 James 1617 Sir Richard Molyneux, Knight, demised to Ralph Eyves the Hall of Fishewicke with its appurtenanes, and free liberty of fishing within the lordship of Fishewicke. to hold for the lives of the said Ralph, Richard his son, and Joan Wallis his daughter, and of the longest liver of them at the yearly rent of 6 and a payment of 100 pound with a provision that Richard the son should survive his father, or if he should marry in his father's lifetime and with his privity and consent, then it should be lawful for Sir Richard Molyneux, after the death of the survivors to re-enter into the premises. Richard did not marry with his father's consent, and in 1654 both father and son were dead' but two-thirds of the estate were under sequestration owing to the delinquency of said Ralph In March 1651-52 Ralph Eyves of Fishwock gent, was reported as a Papist, and Richard his son, of Bradley and Fishwick as a Papist and delinquent. The Estate of Ralph in Fishwich was in 1653 let at 15 a year. Richard Eyves by indentured date 15th Aug 1637 granted to James Foulds of Martoline yeoman an annuity of 10 arising out of a message in Aughton called Over hacking in March 1652-53 this was under sequestration for the recusancy of Richard Eyves then deceased. In 1663 Mr. Thomas Eyves paid Hearth Tax for Fishwick. Three of the Eyves refuse to sign the protest in 1641, William Ralph and Richard.

Towards the close of the century there were several offshoots of this family settle in the neighborhood of Preston, some of them in very humble walks of life; in Fulwood were Eyves, who were shoemakers, laborers, and butchers, but the descendants of the main branch for a time lived at Greaverstown in Ashton on Ribble, Anne, the daughter of Oswald Eyves having married John France of that place.