See also
Husband: | Edward Ayerst (1809-aft1867) | |
Wife: | Elizabeth Ayerst (c. 1812- ) | |
Children: | Edward Ayerst (1830-1882) | |
Jane Ayerst (1831-1917) | ||
Ann Ayerst (1833- ) | ||
Marriage | 20 May 1829 | St.Mary Magdalen, Gillingham, Kent |
Name: | Edward Ayerst | |
Sex: | Male | |
Father: | John Ayerst (1774-bef1841) | |
Mother: | Elizabeth Betts (c. 1783- ) | |
Birth | 1809 | Sutton Valence, Kent |
Baptism | 8 Feb 1809 (age 0) | St Mary the Virgin, Sutton Valence, Kent |
Occupation | 12 Mar 1830 (age 20-21) | Clerk, Hoxton Square, Shoreditch |
Occupation | 11 Sep 1833 (age 23-24) | Ship agent, Earle Street, Shoreditch |
Census | 1841 (age 31-32) | Clerk, King Row, St Mary Newington, Lambeth |
Emigration | 1844 (age 34-35) | from Moved to Australia (see notes) |
Occupation | 25 Dec 1852 (age 42-43) | Ship agent (on Jane's marriage certificate) |
Death | aft 1867 (age 57-58) | Australia |
Name: | Elizabeth Ayerst | |
Sex: | Female | |
Father: | - | |
Mother: | - | |
Birth | c. 1812 | Chatham, Kent |
Census | 1841 (age 28-29) | Wife in household (aged 25) |
Census | 1851 (age 38-39) | School mistress, Wellclose Sq, Aldgate, Middlesex (aged 39, b. Chatham, married, husband absent) |
Name: | Edward Ayerst | |
Sex: | Male | |
Birth | 6 Feb 1830 | Shoreditch, Middlesex |
Baptism | 12 Mar 1830 (age 0) | Saint Leonards, Shoreditch |
Census | 1841 (age 10-11) | Living with parents |
Occupation | c. 1854 (age 23-24) | Enlistment in H M Army; served for 21 years until 1876 |
Occupation | 20 Sep 1867 (age 37) | Serving in the 3rd Battalion 60th Rifles, Madras |
Occupation | 23 May 1876 (age 46) | Discharged from 60th Royal Rifle Corps (Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions) |
Occupation | 8 Aug 1877 (age 47) | Blacksmith, admission to St George’s Workhouse, Mint Street (born 1830) |
Residence | 9 Feb 1880 (age 50) | Admission to Greenwich Workhouse, Woolwich Road |
Occupation | 9 Feb 1880 (age 50) | Smith, no home (Sister, Mrs Otten, 26 Windsor Terrace, Beckton) |
Census | 1881 (age 50-51) | Blacksmith, pauper, Kensington District Workhouse (widower; birthplace = Gillingham) |
Occupation | 1882 (age 51-52) | Gas stoker (on death certificate) |
Death fact | 1882 (age 51-52) | 1882 Dec Qtr, St Saviour Southwark, 1d/78 (aged 52) |
Death | 10 Oct 1882 (age 52) | Walworth Infirmary, Walworth, Surrey |
Cause: Hepatic cirrhosis, dropsy |
Name: | Jane Ayerst | |
Sex: | Female | |
Spouse: | John Hermann Otten (c. 1831-1900) | |
Birth | 26 Dec 1831 | Shoreditch, Middlesex |
Baptism | 27 Jan 1832 (age 0) | Saint Leonards, Shoreditch |
Census | 1841 (age 9-10) | Living with parents |
Census | 1851 (age 19-20) | Seamstress, Wellclose Sq, Aldgate, Middlesex (in mother's household) |
Census | 1871 (age 39-40) | Wife in household |
Census | 1891 (age 59-60) | Wife in household |
Census | 1901 (age 69-70) | Living with daughter Hannah & Charles Thick, East Ham (widow) |
Census | 1911 (age 79-80) | Inmate (formerly housewife), West Ham Union Workhouse, Low Leyton, Essex (widow) |
Death fact | 1917 (age 85-86) | 1917 Mar Qtr, West Ham, 4a/75 (aged 84) |
Residence | 1917 (age 85-86) | Roman Road, East Ham (on death cert.) |
Death | 10 Mar 1917 (age 85) | Forest Gate Sick Home, Essex |
Name: | Ann Ayerst | |
Sex: | Female | |
Spouse 1: | Charles Frederick Green (c. 1834-bef1862) | |
Spouse 2: | Robert Ward (c. 1835-1887) | |
Birth | 13 Aug 1833 | Shoreditch, Middlesex |
Baptism | 11 Sep 1833 (age 0) | Saint Leonards, Shoreditch |
Census | 1841 (age 7-8) | Living with parents |
Census | 1851 (age 17-18) | Living with mother |
Census | 1871 (age 37-38) | Dressmaker, wife in household |
Census | 1881 (age 47-48) | Wife in household |
Census | 1891 (age 57-58) | Tailoress, High Street, Hornchurch, Essex (widow) |
Census | 1901 (age 67-68) | Tailoress, 151 Malmesbury Road, Bow (Annie Ward, widow, aged 64, birthplace Finsbury) |
Marriage register, Gillingham, 20.5.1829:
Edward Ayerst of St Mary Newington, bachelor, and Elizabeth Ayerst of this parish, spinster, by licence
Witnesses: Thomas Ayerst, D Bensted
Evidence for Edward Ayerst's move to Australia:
Missing Friends: Information is requested respecting Edward Ayerst, whose brother, John Ayerst, resides in Water Lane, Lower Thames Street, London, and whose uncle, William Ayerst, resides in Sutton, Kent. He left England for Australia about 16 years ago and is said to have been connected with a steam mill in Melbourne.
Tasmania, Reports of Crime for Police Information, 1866; from the Victoria Police Gazette, 27.9.1866
Missing Friends: A second enquiry has been made respecting Edward Ayerst, and the following additional particulars are now given. He had been employed as clerk by Messrs. Wilkin & Walker, Benet’s Place, Gracechurch Street, London. His first employment was that of clerk to a Mr. Parsons, owner of a steam mill. There is a possibility of his having assumed the name of Austin.
Tasmania, Reports of Crime for Police Information, 1867; from the Victoria Police Gazette, 27.12.1866
Missing Friends: Information is requested respecting Edward Ayerst, who left England for Australia in the year 1844. Prior to leaving England he was employed as employed as clerk to Messrs. Wilkin & Walker, of London. An Englishman. This inquiry is made at the instance of his son, Edward Ayerst, who is now serving in the 3rd Battalion 60th Rifles, Madras.
The South Australian Police Gazette, 20.9.1867
Possible death record for Elizabeth Ayerst:
1878 S Quarter in GREENWICH Volume 01D Page 615 (aged 69, b.1809)