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Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« on: Monday 07 December 09 17:16 GMT (UK) »
 :) Does anyone have Fred Ayres the rocking horse carver on the their life line?    Trying to find where he lived in 1850,s.?

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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #1 on: Monday 07 December 09 17:20 GMT (UK) »
a few sites on the web have him as born c1864 ( died c1940 ? )

Frederick Henry Ayres.

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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #2 on: Monday 07 December 09 17:37 GMT (UK) »
I have a Fred Ayres in my mother's tree, slightly (perhaps too?) early as his children were born in the late 1860s onwards. The location is the Cambridge area, probably Bottisham. Regarding a death for Fred in the 1940s, if my Fred is the rocking horse guy it would not be impossible as the Ayres line seem to be very long lived with many exceeding 90 at death.
Ayres Brignell Cornwell Harvey Shipp  Stimpson Stubbings (all Cambs) Baumber Baxter Burton Ethards Proctor Stanton (all Lincs) Luffman (all counties)

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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #3 on: Monday 07 December 09 17:40 GMT (UK) »
Manufacturing of the Rocking Horses was in London

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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #4 on: Monday 07 December 09 17:48 GMT (UK) »
Though some of my Ayres's did live in London, Fred seems to have stayed in the Cambridge area, so that would rule him out.
Ayres Brignell Cornwell Harvey Shipp  Stimpson Stubbings (all Cambs) Baumber Baxter Burton Ethards Proctor Stanton (all Lincs) Luffman (all counties)

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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #5 on: Monday 07 December 09 18:07 GMT (UK) »
very elusive on the census  :(

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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #6 on: Monday 07 December 09 19:51 GMT (UK) »
I think "1864-1940" are the dates of the business.

Fred H. Ayres (probably who married Elizabeth Bacon in Islington in 1866) is in Islington in 1871 as "croquet manufacturer" and in 1881 as "Turner (artz)".

He was not solely a manufacturer of rocking horses but also of toys and games; in 1888 he was taken to court for selling a game called "Annex" by the patent holder of "Reversi" with the claim that the game and box design were too similar (they decided in his favour).

In 1877 he writes a letter to the Times about a game called "Go Bang" - there was a supposed case of poisoning linked to the coloured counters used and as the original publisher of said game he wanted to make it clear that there were no poisonous materials used in the game as supplied by him.

www.historicaldirectories.org shows him in various listings, as a cabinet maker (1882), lawn tennis manufacturer (1891), chess, draft, and cribbage board maker (1895 and 1899). After his death the company was continued under the name "F. H. Ayres".
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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 08 December 09 08:42 GMT (UK) »
HI

according to the 1851 census he was at home with his parents in Amwell Clerkenwell.


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Blakeley in Batley West Yorks
Turner in Hanging Heaton West Yorkshire
Dann last known area Soothill West Yorks
Hirst in Hanging heaton W Yorks
Moss in Morley and Leeds
Parker in Morley W Yorks
Parker in Hull E Yorks
Tilburns in Morley W Yorks

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Re: Fred Ayres Rocking horse genius
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 08 December 09 11:32 GMT (UK) »
ah, that would explain it - saw the dates in a couple of headlined sites, but only clicked on this one.

http://www.therockinghorseman.co.uk/history-of-the-rocking-horse

looking around today, Ebay has some detail:

FREDERICK HENRY AYRES WAS SITUATED AT 111 ALDERSGATE STREET, LONDON

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