Caroline Ayerst (1860 - 1932)

Born 12 Apr 1860 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of William Davies — married 18 Jun 1879 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 15 Nov 1932 at age 72 in North Riding Infirmary, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Note

Note: #N1131

Sources

• WikiTree profile Ayerst-89 created through the import of Cowell-Davies_2010-11-06_2011-02-27_2011-10-17.ged on Oct 18, 2011 by Owen Davies. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Owen and others.

Notes

Note N1131

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Marriage Cert says 'Harst' but registration of Grandfather Owen's birth says 'formerly Hirst' and she 'made her mark' on the certificate so was not literate (she spent her childhood in an orphanage) - hence Ayerst, Hirst, Harst - just various registrars guessing at what she was pronouncing.

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Birth

Births Jun 1860

AYERST Caroline Stockton 10a 32

IGI extracted entry (parish registers of St Hilda's, Middlesbrough)

Caroline AYERST

Christening: 20 May 1860 Middlesbrough, Yorkshire

Father: John AYERST

Mother: Caroline

Batch No.: C060811

Dates: 1858 - 1878

Source Call No.: 0894250

1860 CAROLINE Ayerst M-V-027-0-0092 Middlesbrough

CAROLINE AYERST Female

Christening: 20 MAY 1860 Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England

Parents:

Father: JOHN AYERST Family

Mother: CAROLINE

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C060811 1735 - 1771 0573984 Film 1238602 Film

C060811 1813 - 1834 0573984 Film 6910109 Film

C060811 1840 - 1858 0894249 Film NONE

C060811 1858 - 1878 0894250 Film NONE

Sheet: 00

Name: Caroline Ayerst

Gender: Female

Baptism/Christening Date: 20 May 1860

Baptism/Christening Place: MIDDLESBROUGH,YORK,ENGLAND

Father's Name: John Ayerst

Mother's Name: Caroline

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C06081-1

System Origin: England-ODM

Source Film Number: 894250

Reference Number:

Born 12 April 1860 at 14 Crowther Street Middlesbrough.

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Marriage

Name: Caroline Harst

Year of Registration: 1879

Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun

District: Middlesbrough (1875-1968)

County: Yorkshire - North Riding

Volume: 9d

Page: 784

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Death

1932 CAROLINE M-M-62-0-307 Middlesbrough

Deaths Dec 1932 Davies Caroline 75 Middlesbro' 9d 650

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005

about Caroline Davies

Name: Caroline Davies

Death Registration Month/Year: 1932

Age at death (estimated): 75

Registration district: Middlesbrough

Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding

Volume: 9d

Page: 650

Death recorded by Thomas Bailey, son-in-law (husband of Mary J)

Lived at 1 The Grove, Hemlington, Middlesbrough.

William Davies & Caroline Davies (nee Ayerst) are both buried in Linthorpe Cemetery, grave 11867A, together with David Davies who was buried on the 8 March 1932 aged 10. The grave appears unmarked and I could not identify the exact location.

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1861 England Census about Caroline Ayerst

Name: Caroline Ayerst

Age: 1

Estimated birth year: abt 1860

Relation: Daughter

Father's Name: John

Mother's Name: Caroline

Gender: Female

Where born: Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Middlesbrough

Town: Middlesbrough

County/Island: Yorkshire

Country: England

Registration district: Stockton

Sub-registration district: Yarm

ED, institution, or vessel: 13

Neighbors: View others on page

Household schedule number: 87

Household Members: Name Age

John Ayerst 44

Caroline Ayerst 38

Caroline Ayerst 1

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 3688; Folio: 35; Page: 17; GSU roll: 543172.

14 Crown Street, Middlesbrough

1861 census

RG9; Piece: 3688; Folio: 35; Page: 17

John AYERST Head Mar 44 Mariner M. S. Kent Chatham

Caroline AYERST Wife Mar 38 Kent Chatham

Caroline AYERST Daur 1 Yorkshire Middlesbrough

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1871 England Census about Caroline Ayrest

Name: Caroline Ayrest

Age: 10

Estimated birth year: abt 1861

Relation: Charity Child (Child)

Mother's Name: Teresa

Gender: Female

Where born: Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Holbeck

Ecclesiastical parish: Holbeck

County/Island: Yorkshire

Country: England

Registration district: Holbeck

Sub-registration district: Holbeck

ED, institution, or vessel: 25

Household schedule number: 14

Household Members: Name Age

Teresa Newcomen 59

Frances Pattison 50

Julia M Bridges 29

Ellen Williams 35

Ann Brierly 34

Ann Hayward 50

Annie E Sewell 25

Emma L Frost 29

Mary E Sussex 22

Elizabeth Booth 31

Martha Bragg 32

Mary Cole 38

Emma Thomas 41

Marianne Thirlwell 52

Mary E Morgan 16

Charlotte Born 16

Kate Ann Young 13

Ellen Lykes 13

Emily Travis 13

Caroline Beesley 6

Caroline Ayrest 10 ****

Christiana Smailing 12

Ada Mathews 4

Eliza Fluck 11

Mary Edwards 14

Mary J Martin 12

Harriet Robinson 7

Isabel M Cormick 7

Agatha N Cormick 13

Rose A Saplsh 10

Fanny Campbell 15

Ada A Dixon 12

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 4523; Folio: 5; Page: 4; GSU roll: 848474.

Convent of the Holy Rood, 17 Malvern Road, Holbeck, Leeds.

The Convent of the Holy Rood was part of the Leeds Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church.

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1881 England Census about Carolin Davis (Caroline Davies)

Name: Carolin Davis

Age: 24

Estimated birth year: abt 1857

Relation: Wife

Spouse's name: William

Gender: Female

Where born: Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Linthorpe

County/Island: Yorkshire

Country: England

Street Address: 11 Robinson Street

Condition as to marriage: Married

Registration district: Middlesbrough

Sub-registration district: Middlesbrough

ED, institution, or vessel: 51

Neighbors: View others on page

Household Members: Name Age

William Davis 24

Carolin Davis 24

Mary Jane Davis 1

Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 4856; Folio: 67; Page: 22; GSU roll: 1342169.

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1891 England Census about Caroline Davies (married my GGF William Davies in 1879)

Name: Caroline Davies

Age: 34

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857

Relation: Wife

Spouse's Name: William

Gender: Female

Where born: Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Merrington

Ecclesiastical parish: Tudhoe Grange

Town: Easington Lane

County/Island: Durham

Country: England

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Auckland

Sub-registration district: Bishop Auckland

ED, institution, or vessel: 33

Neighbors: View others on page

Household Members: Name Age

William Davies 37

Caroline Davies 34

Mary J Davies 11

William Davies 9

Owen Davies 5

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 4072; Folio 100; Page 35; GSU roll: 6099182.

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1901 England Census about Caroline Davies

Name: Caroline Davies

Age: 42

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859

Relation: Head

Gender: Female

Where born: Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Middlesbrough

Ecclesiastical parish: St Paul

County/Island: Yorkshire

Country: England

Registration district: Middlesbrough

Sub-registration district: Middlesbrough

ED, institution, or vessel: 37

Neighbors: View others on page

Household schedule number: 211

Household Members: Name Age

Caroline Davies 42 - 1859

William Davies 19 - 1881

Owen Davies 14 - 1886

John T Davies 8 - 1893

Elizabeth Davies 5 - 1896

David Davies 3 - 1898

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 4578; Folio: 125; Page: 39.

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1911 census

Owen Davies (b. Linthorpe, Middlesborough) was living with his mother Caroline (age 51, widow) possible wife Sarah Jane (age 20 b. Thornaby), brothers John Thomas age 18 and David age 13 at 40 Gauntlet St Middlesbrough in 1911.

The census shows Caroline had 7 children - 6 living and one deceased, which almost ties in exactly with list of children - except one is missing.

1911 Census

DAVIES CAROLINE F 1860 51 Middlesbrough Yorkshire North Riding

1911

Owen Davies (b. Linthorpe, Middlesborough) was living with his mother Caroline (age 51, widow) possible wife Sarah Jane (age 20 b. Thornaby), brothers John Thomas age 18 and David age 13 at 40 Gauntlet St Middlesbrough in 1911.

DAVIES, Caroline Head Widow F 51 1860 Middlesboro Linthorpe

DAVIES, Owen Son Married M 24 1887 Iron Worker Middlesboro Linthorpe

DAVIES, Sarah Jane Daughter In Law Married

1 years F 20 1891 Thornaby

DAVIES, John Tohmas Son Single M 18 1893 Iron Worker Roller Gear Middlesboro Linthorpe

DAVIES, David Son M 13 1898 School Middlesboro Linthorpe

RG number:

RG14 Piece:

29280 Reference:

RG14PN29280 RG78PN1696 RD535 SD3 ED17 SN12

Registration District:

Middlesbrough Sub District:

Middlesbrough West Enumeration District:

17 Parish:

Middlesbrough

Address:

40 Gauntlet St Middlesbrough County:

Yorkshire (North riding)

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This may be the correct Caroline Ayerst's mother's remarriage in 1867 and death in 1868, that may have led to her daughter, Caroline Ayerst, being sent to a Leeds orphanage.

England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915

about Caroline Ayerst

Name: Caroline Ayerst

Year of Registration: 1867

Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec

District: Stockton

County: Durham, Yorkshire - North Riding

Volume: 10a

Page: 138

Marriages Dec 1867

AYERST Caroline Stockton 10a 138

SMITH Marshall Stockton 10a 138

Death Registration - This is Caroline's mother after remarriage to Marshall Smith? This may be her mother's death that led to Caroline being sent to the orphanage.

Sept qtr 1868 at Stockton reg district of a Caroline SMITH born c1823

Perhaps Caroline's stepfather (Marshall Smith) did not want the responsiblity of her upbringing and she was placed in a convent home when she was very young and was not completely sure of her real father's christian name but knew he was a mariner.

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This is Caroline Ayerst with her own family. Caroline's father, John, is listed as a 'Mariner MS (merchant service)'. Caroline Harst, on her marriage certificate recorded her father (who she claimed was William) as a 'seaman merchant service'. I have no answer to why she may have changed John to William, other than she may have been ashamed of and wished to hide her 'charity child' history to avoid any chance of being traced back. Perhaps she simply just didn't remember her family, as she had been sent to the orphanage at a very young age, and the only part she recalled was that her father was a seaman.

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1861 England Census about John Ayerst - cannot find in 1871 census

Name: John Ayerst ***** this is Caroline's 'natural' father

Age: 44

Estimated birth year: abt 1817

Relation: Head

Spouse's name: Caroline

Gender: Male

Where born: Chatham, Kent, England

the only record of a John Ayerst to die between 1861 & 1871 is;

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 about John Ayerst

Name: John Ayerst

Year of Registration: 1862

Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec

District: Rotherhithe

County: Surrey

Volume: 1d

Page: 409

Deaths Dec 1862

AYERST John Rotherhithe 1d 409

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1861 England Census about Caroline Ayerst - also missing from 1871 census

Name: Caroline Ayerst ***** this is Caroline's 'natural' mother

Age: 38

Estimated birth year: abt 1823

Relation: Wife

Spouse's name: John

Gender: Female

Where born: Chatham, Kent, England

I can find no record of them marrying.

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Caroline Ayrest appears in the 1871 as a 'charity child' in a Holbeck, Leeds orphanage census but dissapears from the records by 1881 census.

Caroline Harst does not appear in any records until her 1879 marriage claiming to be 22 years old and from then she in all census until death.

The record records Caroline Ayerst's mother as Teresa**, but Teresa is in fact head of the orphanage and is recorded as the 'mother' of all the children in the orphanage.

Convent of the Holy Rood, 17 Malvern Road, Holbeck, Leeds.

The Convent of the Holy Rood was part of the Leeds Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church

1871 England Census about Caroline Ayrest

Name: Caroline Ayrest

Age: 10

Estimated birth year: abt 1861

Relation: Daughter

Mother's Name: Teresa **

Gender: Female

Where born: Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Holbeck

Ecclesiastical parish: Holbeck

County/Island: Yorkshire

Country: England

Registration district: Holbeck

Sub-registration district: Holbeck

ED, institution, or vessel: 25

Household schedule number: 14

Household Members: Name Age

Teresa Newcomen 59

Frances Pattison 50

Julia M Bridges 29

Ellen Williams 35

Ann Brierly 34

Ann Hayward 50

Annie E Sewell 25

Emma L Frost 29

Mary E Sussex 22

Elizabeth Booth 31

Martha Bragg 32

Mary Cole 38

Emma Thomas 41

Marianne Thirlwell 52

Mary E Morgan 16

Charlotte Born 16

Kate Ann Young 13

Ellen Lykes 13

Emily Travis 13

Caroline Beesley 6

Caroline Ayrest 10 ***

Christiana Smailing 12

Ada Mathews 4

Eliza Fluck 11

Mary Edwards 14

Mary J Martin 12

Harriet Robinson 7

Isabel M Cormick 7

Agatha N Cormick 13

Rose A Saplsh 10

Fanny Campbell 15

Ada A Dixon 12

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LEEDS ORPHANAGE

Teresa Newcomen Head Of The Community (Head) Head Of The Community (Head) 59 abt 1812 Female Mexico London England

Frances Pattison Sister-in-law 50 abt 1821 Female Hornby Yorkshire England

Julia M Bridges Sister-in-law 29 abt 1842 Female Walmer Kent England

Ellen Williams Visitor 35 abt 1836 Female Doncaster Yorkshire England

Ann Brierly Visitor 34 abt 1837 Female Rochdale Lancashire England

Ann Hayward Assistant 50 abt 1821 Female Middlesex London England

Annie E Sewell Assistant 25 abt 1846 Female Bradford Yorkshire England

Emma L Frost Visitor 29 abt 1842 Female add Essex England

Mary E Sussex Servant 22 abt 1849 Female Exeter Devon England

Elizabeth Booth Patient 31 abt 1840 Female Leeds Yorkshire England

Martha Bragg Patient 32 abt 1839 Female Waterton Yorkshire England

Mary Cole Patient 38 abt 1833 Female Ilsworth Yorkshire England

Emma Thomas Patient 41 abt 1830 Female Holbeck Yorkshire England

Marianne Thirlwell Patient 52 abt 1819 Female Impossible To Tell - Paralized, Caenest Opeak

Mary E Morgan Daughter 16 abt 1855 Female Oswestry Shropshire England

Charlotte Born Daughter 16 abt 1855 Female Newbiggin Cumberland England

Kate Ann Young Daughter 13 abt 1858 Female London Middlesex England

Ellen Lykes Daughter 13 abt 1858 Female Richmond Yorkshire England

Emily Travis Daughter 13 abt 1858 Female Thornscue Yorkshire England

Caroline Beesley Daughter 6 abt 1865 Female Manchester Lancashire England

Caroline Ayrest Daughter 10 abt 1861 Female Middlesborough Yorkshire England ****

Christiana Smailing Daughter 12 abt 1859 Female Middlesborough Yorkshire England

Ada Mathews Daughter 4 abt 1867 Female Gisbro Yorkshire England

Eliza Fluck Daughter 11 abt 1860 Female Strond Gloucestershire England

Mary Edwards Daughter 14 abt 1857 Female Oswestry Shropshire England

Mary J Martin Daughter 12 abt 1859 Female Oswestry Shropshire England

Harriet Robinson Daughter 7 abt 1864 Female Coatham Yorkshire England

Isabel M Cormick Daughter 7 abt 1864 Female Stockton Durham England

Agatha N Cormick Daughter 13 abt 1858 Female Ipswich Suffolk England

Rose A Saplsh Daughter 10 abt 1861 Female Leeds Yorkshire England

Fanny Campbell Daughter 15 abt 1856 Female Abingdon Berkshire England

Ada A Dixon Daughter 12 abt 1859 Female Holmfirth Yorkshire England

William Morley Head 48 abt 1823 Male Holbeck Yorkshire England

Agnes A C Morley Wife 29 abt 1842 Female Ramsgate Kent England

Isabel D Morley Daughter 16 abt 1855 Female Hunslet Yorkshire England

Eleanor S Morley Daughter 14 abt 1857 Female Hunslet Yorkshire England

Ellen Womersley Sister 13 abt 1858 Female Ramsgate Kent England

Louisa Binner Servant 24 abt 1847 Female Holbeck Yorkshire England

Joseph L Tempest Head 35 abt 1836 Male Holbeck Yorkshire England

Sarah Tempest Wife 34 abt 1837 Female Armley Yorkshire England

Charles W Tempest Son 12 abt 1859 Male Holbeck Yorkshire England

Annie Tempest Daughter 10 abt 1861 Female Holbeck Yorkshire England

Frederick Tempest Son 6 abt 1865 Male Holbeck Yorkshire England

Benjamin R Tempest Son 3 abt 1868 Male Holbeck Yorkshire England

Hannah F Atkinson Servant 19 abt 1852 Female Leeds Yorkshire England

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FACTS

I cannot find any birth record for Caroline Harst or Hirst, as she alternatively gives her name on her marriage and children's birth certificates. However, it is clear she was illiterate (she is recorded as 'making her mark' on my Grandfather's birth certificate) and so any record is simply the registrar's guess at her sounding her name. There is very strong evidence that her name was really Caroline Ayrest.

Her age also differs on census, in 1891 she gives her age as 34(=b.1857) but in the 1901 census (10 years later) she gives her age as 42 (=b.1859) and in the 1911 census she gives her age as 51(=b.1860), and on her 1879 marriage certificate Caroline give her age as 22 (=b.1857), so she may have been innumerate as well.

As an added complication, my father's 'red book' calls her Victoria and claims she subsequently lived in Milton Street Mbro, with her daughter Cissy (but he lists her only daughter as Elizabeth). But I can find no trace of this Victoria in any records.

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SUPPOSITION

I suggest that Caroline Hirst/Harst is in fact Caroline Ayerst, who was born in Middlesbrough in 1860 to John and Caroline Ayerst. John (father) died in 1862 and Caroline (mother) subsequently remarried to Marshall Smith in December 1867 and died one year later in 1868.

This Caroline Ayerst (later Davies) was with her family John and Caroline in the 1861 census but appears in the 1871 census as a 'charity child' in the orphanage Convent of the Holy Rood, Holbeck, Leeds. Perhaps Marshall Smith (her 'new' father) did not wish to take responsibility for another man's child and so placed Caroline in an orphanage after her mother's death. Certainly all the dates and records fit. These facts are all supported by records detailed above.

Therefore the marriage registration for Caroline AYERST in 1867 could perhaps be Caroline HARST's mother and the widow of the John Ayerst, a Mariner, I found in the 1861 census with daughter Caroline aged one. The death registration I found in 1868 for a Caroline SMITH could be this Caroline AYERST who married Marshall SMITH in 1867 and her age given at death put her birth c1823 which is exactly the birth date of the Caroline AYERST in the 1861 census, wife of John Ayerst.

I tried to follow through the subsequent census records for the Caroline AYERST born c1859/60 that I found in the 1861 with parents John & Caroline and in the 1871 as a charity child at the convent and could not find her, but if this Caroline did turn out to be Caroline HARST I would not be able to find her under her maiden name of AYERST because by 1881 she was presumably married to William DAVIES in 1879.

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Is this a sister?

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915

about Sarah Eliza Ayerst

Name: Sarah Eliza Ayerst

Year of Registration: 1859

Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar

District: Stockton

County: Durham, Yorkshire - North Riding

Volume: 10a

Page: 42

Deaths Sep 1859

AYERST Sarah Eliza Stockton 10a 28

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