Birth: 4 October 1838 St Mary, Sandwich, Kent, UK
Father: Thomas Ayres 1801-1845
Mother: Elizabeth Knott 1802-1895
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 22 December 1859 Holy Trinity, Southampton, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Mary Toop Dowland 1837-1922
Death: 4 October 1918 Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, UK
Henry Bailey Ayres 1860-1942
Edward Ayres 1862-1949
Ella Mary Ayres [Abraham] 1867-1942
Agnes Matilda Ayres [Flux] 1872-1950
Charles Oswold Ayres 1874-1950
Clara Ethel Ayres [Morey] 1875-1963
One other died before 1911
Birth of Edward Ayres in FreeBMD in October-December 1838 in Eastry (5 127).
In the 1841 census as Edward Ayres aged 2, born in Kent, and living with Thomas and Elizabeth Ayres (parents?) and Thomas Ayres (brother?) in St Mary, Sandwich, Kent.
His father died in Eastry in 1845.
In the 1851 census as Edward Ayres aged 12, born in Sandwich, Kent, and living with his widowed mother (Elizabeth) and housekeeper for Thomas Star (aged 31, born in Wednor, Somerset, widowed, and a platelayer for the E Railway Company) and his son (William aged 11 months and born in St Lawrence, Kent) in Maustone Road, Thanet St Lawrence, Kent.
Marriage of Edward Ayres and Mary Toop Dowland in FreeBMD in October-December 1859 in Southampton (2c 14).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Edward Ayres and Mary Troop Dowland on 22 December 1859 at Holy Trinity, Southampton, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as Edward Ayres aged 22, born in Sandwick (sic), Kent, a national school master, and living with his wife (Mary J), widowed mother (Elizabeth) and son (Henry B) in Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire.
In the 1871 census as Edward Agers (sic - in the index, Ayres on the original) aged 32, born in Sandwick (sic), Kent, a national school master, and living with his wife (Mary), two sons (Edward and Henry), daughter (Mary), and a servant (Lucy Jerrems aged 16, and born in Middleton, Northamptonshire) in Teddesley Street, Walshall, Staffordshire.
In the 1881 census as Edward Ayres aged 42, born in Sandwich, Kent, superintendent of the District Royal Albert Orphan Asylum, and living with his wife (Mary), son (Oswald), and three daughters (Agnes M, Ethel C and Ella M) at the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum, Collingwood Court, Frimley, Surrey.
In the 1891 census as Edwd Ayers (sic - on the original) aged 52, born in Sandwich, a schoolteacher, and living with his wife (Mary), son (Chs), daughter (Cara Edith), and a girl servant (Maria Ayres (sic - in the index, Sutton on the original) aged 21, single and born in Islington) at Woodland Villa, Erith, Kent.
In the 1901 census as Edward Ayres aged 62, born in Sandwick (sic), Kent, a board school teacher, and living with his wife (Mary), brother (Fred Ayres), daughter (Clara), and a servant (Alice Hills aged 16 and born in Gravesend, Kent) at Woodland Villa, Lower Abbey Road, Erith, Kent.
In the 1911 census as Edward Ayres aged 72, born in Sandwich, Kent, a teacher ex pensioned, married for 51 years with seven children, six living, and living with his wife (Mary), daughter (Clara E Morey who was the head of the household) and granddaughter (Winifred E Morley) in nine rooms at Clackmore, Radclive, Buckinghamshire.
Death of Edward Ayres in FreeBMD in October-December 1918 aged 80 in Buckingham (3a 2157).
Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Edward Ayres born in Sandwich, Kent on 4 October 1838, parents Thomas Ayres and Elizabeth Knott, his marriage to Mary Toop Dowland on 22 December 1859 at Holy Trinity, Southampton, six children, and his death in Buckingham in 1918, two adding 4 October 1918.
Edward Ayres was the father of Clara Ethel Ayres, wife of Frederick William Morey, husband of Hilda Annie Gibbins, my seventh cousin once removed.
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