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Where did the Scottish Ayers family come from? What is the Scottish Ayers family crest and coat of arms? When did the Ayers family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Ayers family history?
Scottish history reveals Ayers was first used as a surname by the Strathclyde-Briton people. It was a name for someone who lived in the city of Ayr in South-Western Scotland.
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- Known spelling variations
- Early movement of the family name during the Middle Ages
- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
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It is only in the last few hundred years that rules have developed and the process of spelling according to sound has been abandoned. Scottish names from before that time tend to appear under many different spelling variations. Ayers has been spelled Ayer, Air, Ayre, Ayers and others.First found in Ayrshire, where the family has held a family seat from ancient times. One of the first on record was Reginald Ayr, who was Clerk of Ayr in 1287 and Albinus Ayr had a charter of lands from King Robert the Bruce in 1315.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the Life In Ireland!
Some of the Ayers family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 229 words(16 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Ayers. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Unwelcome in their beloved homeland, many Scots sailed for the colonies of North America. There, they found land and freedom, and even the opportunity to make a new nation in the American War of Independence. These Scottish settlers played essential roles in the founding of the United States, and the shaping of contemporary North America. Among them:
Ayers Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Thomas Ayers and Mary Ayers, age 15, who arrived in Boston in 1635
- Robert Ayers, who arrived in Rhode Island in 1664
Ayers Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Charles Ayers, aged 53, who arrived at Ellis Island, in 1893
- Clinton P. Ayers, aged 31, who arrived at Ellis Island, in 1893
Ayers Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century
- Clinton P. Ayers, aged 45, who arrived at Ellis Island from Belfast, in 1903
- Carrie Ayers, aged 35, who arrived at Ellis Island from London, in 1903
- Beatrice Ayers, aged 25, who arrived at Ellis Island from Cornwall, in 1903
- Clara Ayers, aged 22, who arrived at Ellis Island from Glasgow, in 1904
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- John G. K. Ayers (1837-1913), American Union Army soldier, who received a Medal of Honor on August 31 1895 for Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party"
- Edward L. Ayers (b. 1953), American historian
- Roy Ayers (b. 1940), American funk, soul and jazz vibraphone player
- Alvino Dorrance "A.D." Ayers (1850-1921), American Major League baseball umpire
- Rufus A. Ayers (1849-1926), Virginia lawyer, Attorney General of Virginia
- William Charles "Bill" Ayers (b. 1944), American elementary education theorist
- Sir Henry Ayers (1821-1897), former Premier of South Australia, eponym of Uluru/Ayers Rock
- Kevin Ayers (b. 1944), British rock singer
- Michael Richard Ayers FBA (b. 1935), British philosopher, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Oxford
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- Ancestors of Silas Ayers and Mary Bryam Ayers by Charles H. Ayers.
- The Ayers Family: Descendants of William Eayers of Londonderry, New Hampshire by Azuba Ruth Ward.
- The Story of the Ayers Family: Pioneers in the Middle West by Allan Joy Searle.
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Our PDF Coat of Arms + Extended History product is the whole package all in one. With a full color Coat of Arms along with a very detailed History, full symbolism, bibliography and settlers listed by the centuries.
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- Bain, Robert. The Clans and Tartans of Scotland. Glasgow & London: Collins, 1968. Print. (ISBN 000411117-6).
- Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
- Paul, Sir James Balfour. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland Second Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1903. Print.
- Urquhart, Blair Edition. Tartans The New Compact Study Guide and Identifier. Secauccus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1994. Print. (ISBN 0-7858-0050-6).
- Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- Le Patourel, John. The Norman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Print. (ISBN 0-19-822525-3).
- Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
- Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
- Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies Scotch-Irish and German. Harrisburg: L.S. Hart, 1886. Print.
- Leeson, Francis L. Dictionary of British Peerages. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1121-5).
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