James Robert Eastwood of 69 Park St Dundalk and his youngest brother George Joseph Eastwood were both sons of Samuel Eastwood, who was the eldest son and heir of John Eastwood of Castletown.
James Robert Eastwood was to inherit £3000 from the Armagh and Louth estates, but when Samuel died in 1824 James Robert's uncle Charles (who was in possession of Castletown House and the Estates) denied him his inheritance claiming that James Robert and his brothers were illegitimate.

On the 10th of March 1832 James Robert Eastwood of 69 Park Street, Dundalk, Farmer and Jaunting Car Keeper, was committed to the Sheriff’s Prison in Dublin at the suit of Joseph Elphinson of The Merches, Dundalk, for the sum of £2-6s-2½d (€ 2.92). To have himself released from prison James Robert Eastwood filed for bankruptcy. A schedule of his financial affairs was taken. His debts amounted to £820.

James Robert Eastwood died in tragic circumstances in 1835 as this extract from the London Times of 04 Aug 1835 relates

DREADFUL MURDER IN LOUTH
An inquest was held in Dundalk on Sunday and Monday on the body of James Robert Eastwood, a tithe and rent collector, who died in the Louth Hospital on Sunday morning. He had been employed on Wednesday last by the agent of Robert Hall, Esq.; to sell some goods detained for rent at Carrickedmond, about two miles from Dundalk.
After the sale, the deceased, the agent, and several of the tenants, adjourned to a public house, where they drank rather freely. All of them appeared in good humour, with the exception of one person, who alleged that Eastwood had treated him ill, some time before, regarding the payment of the tithe, which the deceased had been in the habit of collecting.
Eastwood, it is stated, was rather tipsy, but not unable to transact his business.
On his way home to Dundalk, about 5 o'clock in the evening, he was met by four men armed with sticks, who came from the adjoining fields, where a great number of the peasantry were collected. They knocked him down and beat him in a most brutal manner. Scarcely an inch of his body was free from contusions, and his hands, in an ineffectual effort to preserve his head, were beaten to pieces.
The unfortunate victim was, however, able to reach the gatehouse of the Rev. Gervais Tinlay,(Fort Hill) from whence he was conveyed in the gentleman’s jaunting car to the Louth Hospital.
This shocking outrage occurred in a very thickly inhabited part of the country; and although it was witnessed by a number of persons, 13 of whom were examined at the inquest, yet not one could be induced to discover the perpetrators of the murder. Under these circumstances, the verdict of the jury was- "Willful murder by persons unknown."
One of the witnesses, named James Kennedy, has been committed for perjury under the coroner's warrant, and two men, who were working in an adjacent field whilst the murder was perpetrating, have been bound over to give evidence at the assizes.

In 1862 (twenty seven years after this event) George Joseph Eastwood the youngest brother of James Robert began proceeding to regain the estates from James Eastwood the son of Charles. The case Eastwood v Eastwood was long and protracted but in 1878 the final judgement of the House of Lords decreed that James Robert Eastwood had been unjustly denied his inheritance. The Judgement stated that the accusation of illegitimacy was a pretence concocted by his uncle Charles and Charles’s son and heir James Eastwood and John James Bigger of Falmore Hall (both first cousins to James Robert Eastwood) to deny him his inheritance.
Following these proceedings the Eastwood estates were sold off by the Landed Estates Commission and money was set aside from the sale to pay the creditors of James Robert Eastwood.