Isabella Eliza Ayers

MR. AARON AYERS, who was Mayor and Councillor of the City of Christchurch, was born in 1836 in Gloucester, England. Arriving in Lyttelton per ship “Gananogue” in 1860, Mr. Ayers was for twenty years a hairdresser and tobacconist in Christchurch. In 1880 he became an auctioneer, and was afterwards the senior partner in the firm of Ayers, Beauchamp and Co., Cashel Street. He was a member of the Linwood Borough Council. Mr. Ayers was married in 1859 to a daughter of Mr. F. F. Williams, of London, and there are four sons and four daughters living. Mr. Ayers died on the 15th of September, 1900. Source: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1903) https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3...