Ayres Family History & Genealogy

Sister of Katherine, mother of Dorothy Ferguson (b. 1901).

Katherine (Kate) and Isabel (Belle) Ayres are interred in the second and third partitions of a concrete grave near the Trousers Point Road on the property known as Koronavia, Flinders Island, where they both lived with Kate’s husband, William Hay Ferguson. William, the owner of that property since 1888, was interred there first and was Katherine's husband. She was his second wife, the first being Elizabeth Holcroft Ferguson, nee Hay, who lost her life in a shipwreck. Katherine, Belle and William NEVER lived in Moe, Victoria at any time, whatsoever; and this contributor wonders wherefrom that misinformation originated. Katherine Ferguson's granddaughter, Doreen Mabel Ferguson, lived in Moe from 1955 until 1959 and WIlliam & Katherine's second son John Alexander Ferguson and his wife, Dora May Ferguson (née Hammond) are interred together in the Moe Cemetery. This contributor is their eldest grandson and Doreen's eldest son. The Flinders Island Historical Society may have photographs of William and Katherine. I remember once seeing a photograph of them with a horse drawn dray at Koronavia, date unknown. Isabella Ayres is not buried at the cemetery on Koronavia. She died in Tasmania and is buried there. Katherine and Isabella were born at Longford in Tasmania. Bella came to Flinders Island to help her sister with her children as she had been working as a nanny in Tasmania.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Henry Ayres.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Isabella (MacCarmack) Ayres.

Diane Ayres was born on March 22, 1956. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Diane Ayres.

John Ayres was in a relationship with Isabella (MacCarmack) Ayres, and has children Katherine Ferguson and Isabelle Ayres. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Ayres.

Mary Hattie (Ayres) Anderson was born on July 4, 1877 in Kaufman, Kaufman County, Texas United States, and died at age 81 years old in 1958 in Dallas, Dallas County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Hattie Ayres.

Arthur Underwood Ayres, Jr of Santa Barbara, California United States was born on October 10, 1934 in Philadelphia, PA. Arthur Ayres, got married to Elizabeth Ann (Preston) on March 13, 1963 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, and has children Susan Elizabeth Teren and Jennifer Ann Ayres. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Arthur Underwood Ayres, Jr.

Kathleen Elizabeth (Ayres) Gilbert was born on April 24, 1943 at New York, and died at age 62 years old on September 10, 2005 at Gainesville, GA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kathleen Elizabeth Ayres Gilbert.

Martha Ann Heggie Ayres was born on January 1, 1840. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Martha Ann Heggie Ayres.

Carolyn Ann Ayres was the daughter of Herman Clinton and Hazel J (Garnant) Ayres and was married to James "Jimmy" Edward Knight who was born 13 Aug 1944 and died 22 Aug 2013.

Joseph R Ayres of Smith County, TX was born circa 1971. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph R. Ayres.

Dortha Ayres of 236 Bobbies Ln, in Balcones Heights, Texas United States was born on November 29, 1955. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dortha Ayres .

Jennifer Ann Ayres of Santa Barbara, California United States was born on July 9, 1970. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jennifer Ann Ayres.

My mother was an amazing woman. Having been born in Berlin and living in Amsterdam during WWII. She lost her eldest brother to a Nazi death camp and was fortunately able to "escape" Germany. Although English was not her first, or even second, language she spoke it more beautifully than most people who are raised speaking it. Her need and ability to teach young children and make a REAL difference in their lives is what brought her to become the Director of the first daycare center in Bergen County. It was named the Leonard Johnson Day Nursery School after a local pediatrician who worked with children from disadvantaged families. That was the special part about this school. It made a point of being available to families or single parents regardless of what they could pay. It allowed many woman to get off welfare because there was somewhere to take their children while they were at work. The school was open until 5:30 so parents didn't have to leave work early. My mother also recognized that within the local school districts, at that time, there were no programs for children with slight learning disabilities. She helped form and became president of Parents for Extended Education in Schools. Forcing the school board in our town to examine their programs and make adjustments.......and they did. My grandmother was a Polish Jew and my grandfather was a German Lutheran and at that time my grandfather saw the handwriting on the wall and my mother went to a Lutheran grammar school. She had to practice any Jewish rituals to their home when no one else was there. My grandfather was the Director of the largest circus in Europe and they had performers stay with them on many occasions....but the secret was safe. After searching for the "church" or religion that best reflected her feelings she and my father became Unitarian Universalists and it's a religion that she totally embraced. "A thinking 'man's' religion" was the way she described it. My mother would give the food from our table and the shirt off our backs if there was someone in more need than we were......and we weren't wealthy by any means. It was thrift store clothes for us and yet when friends needed a place to stay they came to us. Over my childhood a number of my parents' friends stayed with us for extended periods of time. I know there is so much more to say about my mother. Her resilience, tenacity, strength of character, kindness, compassionate and so much more. If anyone has a story to share about my mother I would LOVE to have you share them. A tough act to follow, as I always said. Miss her every day.

Elizabeth Ann (Preston) Ayres of Santa Barbara, California United States was born on December 3, 1938 to Ralph C Preston and Deborah (Steer). She has siblings Kathleen (Preston) Knight and John Preston. Elizabeth Ayres married Arthur Underwood Ayres, Jr on March 13, 1963 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and has children Susan Elizabeth Teren and Jennifer Ann Ayres. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elizabeth Ann (Preston) .

Lew Ayres - Biography Born December 28, 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Died December 30, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA (complications from a coma) Birth Name Lewis Frederick Ayer III Height 5' 9½" (1.77 m) Mini Bio (1) Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his films again, but quietly he achieved the Medical Corps status he had requested, serving as a medic under fire in the South Pacific and as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Phillipines. His return to film after the war was undistinguished until Johnny Belinda (1948) - his role as the sympathetic physician treating the deaf-mute Jane Wyman won him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Subsequent movie roles were scarce; an opportunity to play Dr. Kildare in television was aborted when the network refused to honor his request for no cigarette sponsorship. He continued to act, but in the 1970s put his long experience into a project to bring to the west the philosophy of the East - the resulting film, Altars of the World (1976), while not a box-office success, won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award. Lew Ayres died in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1996, just two days after his 88th birthday. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Bruce Cameron Spouse (3) Diana Hall (7 February 1964 - 30 December 1996) ( his death) ( 1 child) Ginger Rogers (14 November 1934 - 20 March 1941) ( divorced) Lola Lane (15 September 1931 - 3 February 1933) ( divorced) Trivia (16) Died in his sleep after being in a coma for several days. Born at 12:15am-CST Following his death, he was interred next to Frank Zappa at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Zappa's grave is unmarked but to the right of Ayres. Had portrayed the title character for the syndicated radio show "The Story of Dr. Kildare" (1950-1951). Big Band musician before becoming an actor. His instruments were tenor banjo, long-neck banjo and guitar. Had one son with Diana Hall: Justin Ayres. As a child, he wanted to be a doctor. His wife, Diana Hall, is a former flight attendant. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 22-23. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6385 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Radio at 1724 Vine Street in Hollywood, California. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, which made him rather unpopular at the studio. Had played the Vice-President of the United States twice (in Advise & Consent (1962) and The Man (1972)), the President twice (in Advise & Consent (1962) and Earth II (1971)), and the Galactic President (in Battlestar Galactica (1978)). Appears in three Best Picture Oscar nominees: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), State Fair (1933) and Johnny Belinda (1948), with All Quiet on the Western Front the only winner. He was a lifelong conservative Republican. In 1960, MGM toyed with the idea of doing an all-male remake of 1939's The Women which would have been entitled, Gentlemen's Club. Like the female version, this would have involved an all masculine cast and the plot would have involved a man (Jeffrey Hunter) who recently discovers among his comrades that his wife is having an affair with another man (Earl Holliman) and after going to Reno to file for divorce and begin a new life, he later finds himself doing what he can to rectify matters later on when he discovers that the other man is only interested in money and position and he decides to win his true love back again. Although nothing ever came of this, it would have consisted of the following ensemble had it did: Jeffrey Hunter (Martin Heal), Earl Holliman (Christopher Allen), Tab Hunter (Simon Fowler), Lew Ayres (Count Vancott), Robert Wagner (Mitchell Aarons), James Garner (Peter Day), Jerry Mathers (Little Martin), James Stewart (Mr. Heal), Ronald Reagan (Larry), Troy Donahue (Norman Blake), and Stuart Whitman (Oliver, the bartender who spills the beans about the illicit affair). On August 28, 2018, he was honored with a day of his film work during the TCM Summer Under The Stars. Personal Quotes (5) To me, war was the greatest sin. I couldn't bring myself to kill other men. [on the closing scene in All Quiet on the Western Front, in 1984]: And everyone remembers that, they always say to me: "Oh, but I remember the butterfly scene!" I kind of analyzed why they remember that so well and it seemed to be that in a subliminal way, in a kind of another sense, the butterfly, which emerges from being only a caterpillar, is a little bit like - maybe they don't think that way - men reaching for his soul. I never had a great talent, but I suppose I must have had something to hang around for 50 years. I don't have any proclivity for acting. It was always difficult for me to learn my lines, which is something that should come easily to any actor. I considered myself a Hollywood success, but there was something wrong with that success. I had everything, yet I had nothing. I had my books, my home, my companions, my music. But somehow, I was lonely." I've always tried to make characters real and vulnerable. How I do this I'd be hard-pressed to say, but when you do achieve it, when you are totally credible, the audience can forget itself and live through you on the screen. An audience needs to forget itself, if only for a little while.

Lillian Narcissas (Ayres) Donner-Schneider was born in 1903 in Maryland United States, and died in Bonita Springs, Lee County, FL. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lillian Narcissas (Ayres) Donner-Schneider .

Ellen Ayres was born in April 1860 in Alabama United States. She was in a relationship with Mack Ayres, and has a child Mary Hattie Ayres. Ellen Ayres died in Kaufman, Kaufman County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ellen Womack.

John Henry Ayres Jr was born to John Henry Ayres and Louise Esaias, and has siblings Charles Julius Ayers and Louise Ayres. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Henry Ayres Jr.