oconnor=ayres

[akon66]

Hi hope this will ring some bells with some one....my great grandad. I 1st find him on a marrige cert in 1897 in chacombe just outside banbury....marrying grt gran mary Elizabeth bennett.....name william oconnor.....fathers name William oconnor
iv searched high and low for him using that info.....and on future census....born 1873/4 Manchester or liverpool.....never founf the right one.....turns out his real name was william/billy ayres and came to chacombe on a travelling boxing booth.....any one have any ideas how or where to start looking.....limited info i know but its the final piece of info im stuck on

[Pamelawagster]

Possible.

1881 census

Born Broughton,Manchester. Although Broughton is in Salford just outside Manchester City centre.


Class: RG11; Piece: 1499; Folio: 91; Page: 30;


1891 transcribed as Aures

Class: RG12; Piece: 1169; Folio: 110; Page: 21


Possible birth reg

William Henry Ayers MMN - Dore
1874
Jan-Feb-Mar
Salford Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 51

[akon66]

Yes iv seen this one sure his father frm Charlbury. .....had sister clare/clara.....but im sure he died in Oxford

[Pamelawagster]

The marraige of William Richard Ayers to Elizabeth DORE matches the maiden name on the birth reg of William Henry.

[akon66]

Im sure that they we're living in st giles Oxford and william Henry ayres died st barnabus parish....cant remember the yr....

[akon66]