William Ayris 1820-1881

Author: gambles
Date published: 03/11/2026
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William Ayris

1820-1881

William was born on the 28th March 1820. He was baptised on the 5th April 1821, in Marcham, Berkshire, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ayris.

Thomas and Elizabeth also had the following children baptised in Marcham:

William, 1816 (died 1819)

Martha, 1819

Albert, 1825

Eliza, 1828

Frederick, 1830 (died 1843)

The 1841 census records William (20), living in Marsham, with his father Thomas (45), a Farmer, his mother Elizabeth (50) and his siblings, Martha (20), Albert (15) and Eliza (10) and Frederick (10).

In 1851 William (30), was recorded working as a Brickmaker, he was still living at home, in Marcham, with his father Thomas (59), also a Brickmaker, his mother Elizabeth (62), his sister Martha (31), a Schoolmistress and his brother Albert (25).

The 1861 census records William (40) as a Brickmaker, employing 3 men, at Brick Kiln, South Hinksey, Oxfordshire.

William married in 1861

Marriage details:

Place: South Hinksey, Oxfordshire

Date: 19th December 1861

Groom: William Ayris, aged 40, bachelor, occupation, Brickmaker, abode, South Hinksey

Bride: Mary Alice Hill Danby, aged 44, spinster, abode, South Hinksey

Fathers: Thomas Ayris, a Farmer (no record for father of the bride)

(Mary Alice was born c1816, in Iffley, Oxfordshire)

The 1871 census records William (50) and Mary (51) (recorded as Alice) lodging in Stockcross, Berkshire. (no occupation or place of birth recorded for either of them)

By 1881 William (60) was working as a Painter, living in Mayor’s Lane, Newbury, with Mary Alice (64).

William died aged 60, in 1881, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19th April.

 

 

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