Birth: 30 April 1916 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Father: Charles Reginald Ayres 1884-1947
Mother: Mabel Fanny Catchpole 1883-1957
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 17 January 1944 St George and St Mary, Cockington, Devon, UK
Wife: Dorothy Mary Symonds 1923-a1948
Marriage: July-September 1962 Totnes, Devon, UK
Wife: Kathleen Swindells 1917-1985
Death: 15 July 1983 9 Manor Gardens, Paignton, Devon, UK
By Dorothy
Judith M Ayres [Rogers] 1945-a1972
Gillian M Ayers [Bailey] 1948-a1971
Birth of Douglas Tennant Aynes (sic - in the index) in Manitoba Vital Statistics Branch on 30 April 1916 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, parents married, mother Mabel Danny Catchpole (1916b 019414).
In the 1916 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta as Douglas Ayres aged 0, born in Manitoba, and living with his parents (Charles and Mabel), two brother (Charles), and three sisters (Betty, Judith and Nona) at 527 Richmond, 09, Winnipeg South, Manitoba, both parents born in England and immigrated in 1902.
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Douglas T Ayres aged 5 months arrived Liverpool on 16 September 1916 on the Adriatic, White Star Dominion Line from New York accompanied by his parents (Chas R and Mabel F), brother (Charles E) and three sisters (Fanny C, Judith J and Ruby L) from Canada to ?, Sheepcote Road, Harrow, Middlesex.
His sister was born on 11 April 1919 and registered in April-June 1919 in Hendon.
In the 1921 census as Douglas Jennan (sic - in the index, Tennant on the original) Ayres aged 5 years 2 months, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, both parents alive, and living with his parents (Charles Reginald and Mabel Fanny), brother (Charles Edward), three sisters (Edith Isabel, Margaret Daphne, and Ruby Lora), and two aunts (Gertrude Clara and Rosamond Maud Calepde) in eight rooms at Lee Farm Buklington, Newton Abbot, Bickington, Devon.
I cannot locate him in the 1939 register.
Marriage of Douglas T Ayres and Symonds in FreeBMD in January-March 1944 in Newton A (5B 257). His wife's entry is in Newton (8C in the index, 5C on the typed original 257) Newton is in Lancashire, Newton Abbot in Devon.
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current for the marriage of D T Ayres, father Charles Ayres, and Dorothy Mary Symonds on 17 January 1944 in Torquay.
Entry in Find my Past Miss D M Symonds SergL Douglas Tennant Ayres RAF Regiment youngest Mr and Mrs C R Ayres of Arundel House Hatfield Broad Oak Herts was married at Cockington Church Torquay yesterday to Dorothy Mary Symonds WL-A elder daughter of Mr and Mrs F Symonds Heston in Torbay Express and South Devon Echo 18 January 1944.
His two daughters were registered in January-March 1945 and January-March 1948 in Newton Abbot.
Marriage of Douglas T Ayres and Kathleen Swindells in FreeBMD in July-September 1962 in Totnes (7A 1821).
His wife died on 23 March 1985 at 9 Manor Gardens, Paignton.
Death of Douglas Tennant Ayres, born 20 April 1916, in FreeBMD in July-September 1983 in Torbay (21 930).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Douglas Tennant Ayres died 15 July 1983 in Paigton probate 19 October 1983 in Bristol. "Ayres, Douglas Tennant of 9 Manor Gdns Paignton died 15 July 1983 Administration with Will Bristol 19 October £52510".
There are fifteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Douglas Tennant Ayres.
Douglas Tennant Ayres was the brother of Fanny Elizabeth Ayres, wife of William J Boxall, my second cousin once removed.
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