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Family of Edward Ayerst and Elizabeth Ayerst

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

Husband: Edward Ayerst

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

Wife: Elizabeth Ayerst

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)

Child 1: Edward Ayerst

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

Child 2: Jane Ayerst

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

Child 3: Ann Ayerst

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)

Note on Husband: Edward Ayerst (1) - shared note

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

Note on Husband: Edward Ayerst (2)

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

Note on Wife: Elizabeth Ayerst

Possible death record for Elizabeth Ayerst:

1878 S Quarter in GREENWICH Volume 01D Page 615 (aged 69, b.1809)