PHOTOGRAPHS RELATED TO THE FAMILY OF MABEL AYERS

Miss Ayers was contacted through the Family History Research Course held at Manchester Polytechnic. See attached sheet for further information about depositor's family.

Miss Ayers is one of five sisters, daughters of William Arthur Ayers and his wife Harriet née Rogerson. Miss Ayers used to work as a Secretary for the Electricity Board on Cheetwood Road.

Miss Ayers's father was born in 1883, in Heavitree, a district of Exeter. His father, Nicholas Rogers Ayers, had been in business as a Fly Proprietor, but failed. He came to Manchester in 1885 and worked for the Manchester Carriage Co., driving horse-drawn cabs, living in Cheetham Hill. Nicholas Ayers had married Eliza Bolt from Sidmouth, who used to wait on at functions. Besides the depositor's father, William, their children were: Annie, Gertie, Frances, Edith and Harry.

On her mother's side, Miss Ayers's grandfather was Joseph Rogerson, born 1840, died 1891, a warehouseman, who lived in the Heaton Park area of Manchester. He married Mary Ann Ashton, born 1847. Their children were: Zilpha, Ada, a weaver who worked near Agecroft, starting at six in the morning and finishing at six in the evening, Harriet, the depositor's mother, born 1882, died 1953, a small ware weaver, Ethel, also a weaver, Elsie, a secretary with the Bentinck Motor Company where she met her husband. She had taught herself shorthand and book-keeping and was also a very keen singer. There were also two brothers; Frank, who was a bit of a layabout, not holding down any particular job, and Joe, who was a Railway Clerk.