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FamilySearchGENiGeneanetNZ Intention to Marry Index (1882-1899)
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSource: Intention to Marry Indexes, by Archives NZ / CC BY
| Bride | Groom | Marriage District | Year | Volume | Page | Entry |
| 🌳 Elizabeth Ward | 🌳 James Ayres | Kaiapoi | 1882 | 27 | 684 | 519 |
Te Papa Collections - People
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://data.tepapa.govt.nz/collection/search?q=type:Person+AND+title:(James+AND+Ayres)
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Tributes Online (obituaries)
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Otago Nominal Index
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Whanganui Council Property Rolls
Ayres, James 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://wdc.whanganui.govt.nz/propertyrolls/data.aspx?id=search
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NZ Presbyterian Marriages
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Shadows of Time
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Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph
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Source: Online Cenotaph by Auckland War Memorial Museum / CC BY 4.0
Alfred James Ayres
Alexander Turnbull Library
Ayres, James 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/imu/request.php
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WWII Military Draft Lists
James Ayres 🔍 ASHFrom 1940-45, men aged 18-46 were selected by ballot for potential service with the Armed Forces under New Zealand's wartime conscription. Twenty-four ballot lists were published in the NZ Gazette.
NOTE: Being listed in a ballot did not necessarily mean the person served in the military. Some had already volunteered, others were found medically unfit, granted deferment or exemption on appeal, or were never called up for active service. These records document those selected for possible service, not confirmed service personnel.
Source: Indexed by Luke Howison from 24 NZ Gazette ballot lists, provided by NZLII
| Registration No | Surname | Forenames | Occupation | Address | Military District | Gazette Ref | Page No | PDF Link |
| 480660 | Ayres | Frederick James | boot-operative | 20 Avon St. | Wellington | Vol 113, 22 Dec 1942 | 3004 | View Page |
WW1 returned soldiers land holdings
James Ayres 🔍 ASHA register of land holdings allotted to returned soldiers from the World War One New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The register gives the file number, regimental number of the soldier, location and acreage of the land, class of land tenure granted, sale plan number, capital value, the amount of rent and the date of Land Board approval and remarks.
Source: Register of returned soldiers land holdings, 1916-1930. Names indexed by Dawn Chambers. Archives NZ reference R5813320 / CC BY
| Surname | Forenames | Folio | Page Link |
| Ayres | Alfred James | 43 | View Register Page |
Sooty NZ (NZ history and genealogical information)
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Transcriptions NZ
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Kura Heritage Collections (Auckland)
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Intention to Marry Project
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Source: NZ Intention to Marry Project - transcribed, searchable Intention to Marry registers, courtesy of Archives New Zealand / Public domain and CC0
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| No | Date of Notice | Names and Surnames of Parties | BDM Match | Condition | Calling or Profession | Age | Dwelling Place | Length of Residence | Marriage Place | Folio | Consent | Date of Certificate | Officiating Minister | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 457 | 4 June 1913 |
James Albert Ayres
Rosina Elizabeth Bell |
Bachelor Spinster |
Printer |
26 23 |
Christchurch Christchurch |
1 year 3 weeks |
Residence of Rev. J. Cocker, Durham St. | 13/3670 | 4 June 1913 | Rev. J. Cocker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 166 | 26 September 1921 |
Alfred James Ayres
Dorris Lucy Holdaway |
Bachelor Spinster |
Farmer Saleswoman |
36 27 |
Dannevirke Palmerston North |
5 years 3 years |
All Saints Church of England Palmerston North | 7537 | 26 September 1921 | Rev H.G.Blackburne, Anglican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NZ Births
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| Registration | Family Name | Given Name(s) | Mother's Given Name(s) | Father's Given Name(s) | Still Birth | |
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| 1939/61275 | Ayres | Ronald James | Elsie May | Leslie Frank | - | Order Product |
| 1882/11029 | Ayres | Alfred James | Maggie | Charles Abraham Buenos | - | Order Product |
| 1867/22015 | Ayres | Frederick James | Charlotte | James | - | Order Product |
| 1857/6598 | Ayres | James | Elizabeth | William | - | Order Product |
Archives NZ
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://archway.howison.co.nz/ajax/simple.php?search=%22james%22+ayres&simple_view=1
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Source: Archives NZ Collections Search / CC BY / via Archway
Dunedin High Court > Dunedin Letters of Administration files
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| ARTHUR James - Barshaw, Renfrew and Carlung, Ayr, Scotland - Merchant | 1886 | Dunedin | Open |
Wellington High Court > Wellington probate files [third sequence]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| AYRES Frederick James | 1963 | Wellington | Open | |
| Ayres, Ronald James | 1994 | Wellington | Open |
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Miscellaneous Arbitration Files, Auckland
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Land valuation files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Application for consent to sale - James Stuart Hamilton to Esther Eliza Ayres. Walter St, Takapuna | 1944 | Auckland | Open |
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Compensation Files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Compensation Court - James William Edward Ayre of National Park, Fitter-Welder v A. & T. Burt Limited | 1974 | Auckland | Restricted |
Christchurch High Court > Christchurch Probate files
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| AYRES James Albert - Christchurch - Printer | 1956 | Christchurch | Open |
Legislative Department > Women's Suffrage Petition 1892 [Digitised Sheets]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Digitised 1892 Women Suffrage Petition Roll - Sheet 287 - Region: Wellington [Digital Copy] | 1892 | Digital | Open |
Wellington High Court > Wellington divorce files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Wood, George Henry v Wood, Ellen Lucretia and Ayres, William and Quinn, James | 1908 ‑ 1909 | Wellington | Open |
Roxburgh Warden's Plaints
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Complaint - William Knight and Matthew Richardson v James Ayre | 1863 | Dunedin | Open |
New Zealand Post Limited, Headquarters > Dead Classification Cards
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Ayres, Frederick James - Born 1901 | 1915 ‑ 1917 | Wellington | Open |
Ministry of Transport, Auckland Regional Office > Auckland ship registration files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| James Cosgrove - Official Number 143936 - registered 1918, London - built Ayr | 1918 | Auckland | Open |
Palmerston North High Court > Palmerston North Probate files [second sequence]
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| AYRES Alfred James | 1964 | Wellington | Open |
New Zealand Defence Force, Personnel Archives > Military Personnel Files
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| AYRES, Alfred James - WW1 11/2024 - Army | 1914 ‑ 1919 | Wellington | Open |
Justice Department > Coroners Inquests, case files
| Name | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| Coroners Inquests Unnecessary - ... John Ayres, ; Alice Maud ; ... | 1959 | Wellington | Open |
| Coroners inquests Unnecessary - ... Townsley, Fred; Ayres, Colin Raynor; Grainger, ... | 1962 | Wellington | Open |
| Coroners Inquests Unnecessary - Case Files - Ayres, James Albert | 1956 | Wellington | Open |
| Coroners inquests unnecessary - ... Guy Aldwin; Ayres, Amelia; Yaxley, Arthur ... | 1961 | Wellington | Open |
High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Auckland probates
| Name | Scan | Year(s) | Held At | Access |
| LEGGAT James - Ayr, Scotland - Master Plasterer | 1964 | Auckland | Open | |
| AYRE Lionel James - Auckland - Retired Stationery | 1960 | Auckland | Open |
Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://dict-bio.howison.co.nz/ash_search/?s=James+Ayres
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Our Stuff - Denise & Peter's NZ history site
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Source: Our Stuff by Denise and Peter on Rootsweb / "All information, lists and stories on this site may be freely linked to"
John 4 L ? 1 Ayres James 25 Middlesex Bricklayer Charlotte 23 Bergin Thomas 32 Leicester Labourer Hepseba ? 28 Jane 9 William 6 Thomas 4 Bornard Richard William 45 Surrey Gardener
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/genealogy/Cameo.htm
NZ Genealogy Research Made Easy
James Ayres 🔍 ASHRetrieved at 8:42am, 7 June 2026 in 0.946 seconds
Source: New Zealand Genealogy Research Made Easy, by Barbara Andrew / "pages may be freely linked"
January 1887 James Ayres b. 20 April 1857 to William & Elizabeth nee GIBBS ... O.K. James occ: bricklayer of Ferry Rd. Avonside James Ayres b. 8 June 1895 to William & Rose of Kaiapoi
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~babznz/genealogy/ayersmar.html
The Treasury (Coromandel-Hauraki)
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://thetreasury.catalogaccess.com/api/search/advanced
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NZSG Kiwi Collection (non-member records)
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSource: Kiwi Collection copyright The New Zealand Society of Genealogists / with the kind permission of the NZSG
| Name | Date | Record Type |
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| AYRES, Alfred James 🔍 | Auckland War Memorial Museum - Cenotaph | |
| AYRES, Alfred James 🔍 | 29 May 1964 | NZ Probates |
| AYRES, Frederick James 🔍 | 28 Aug 1963 | NZ Probates |
| AYRES, James Albert 🔍 | 25 Sep 1956 | NZ Probates |
Tinui History
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://www.tinuihistory.org/_/search?query=%22Ayres%2C+James%22+OR+%22James+Ayres%22&scope=site
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Masterton Anglican History
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://www.mastertonanglicanhistory.org/_/search?query=%22Ayres%2C+James%22+OR+%22James+Ayres%22&scope=site
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Whakatere Heritage Collections (Ashburton)
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://whakatereheritage.catalogaccess.com/api/search/advanced
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New Zealand Gazette Index
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://gazette.howison.co.nz/search?name=James+Ayres
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Transcribed and indexed with AI tools; verify important info with the original PDF sources (linked)
Source: 1840-2017 New Zealand Gazette (and related periodicals) indexed from various public sources, including VUW, NZLII, gazette.govt.nz, WCC Libraries and Papers Past. Usage/copyright varies: Public domain / Crown copyright / fair use / CC-BY 3.0 NZ
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NZ Marriages (Groom)
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| Registration | Bride's Given Name(s) | Bride's Family Name | Groom's Given Name(s) | Groom's Family Name | ITM | |
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| 1913/4196 | Rosina Elizabeth | Bell | James Albert | Ayres | Order Product |
Intention to Marry
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| 1921/3471 | Dorris Lucy | Holdaway | Alfred James | Ayres | Order Product |
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| 1939/13059 | Gwendoline Sunday Grace | Austin | Frederick James | Ayres | Order Product |
NZ Deaths
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| Registration | Family Name | Given Name(s) | Born (approx.) | Age at Death (approx.) | |
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| 1941/21857 | Ayres | James Roderick | 1881 | 60Y | Order Product |
| 1956/21206 | Ayres | James Albert | 1887 | 69Y | Order Product |
| 1964/28708 | Ayres | Alfred James | 1883 | 81Y | Order Product |
| 1994/42199 | Ayres | Ronald James | 31 March 1939 🔍NZ | 55 years | Order Product |
| 1963/42699 | Ayres | Frederick James | 1902 | 61Y | Order Product |
Masterton Library Wairarapa Archive
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BillionGraves (NZ cemeteries)
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://billiongraves.com/api/1.3/search
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Source: BillionGraves / limited search result excerpts for non-commercial personal research
| Name | Died | Cemetery | Region |
| James A. Ayres | 1 Aug 1956 🔍 📰 | Canterbury Memorial Gardens & Crematorium | Canterbury |
Archives Central (Manawatū-Whanganui)
James Ayres 🔍 ASHSearch URL: https://archivescentral.org.nz/search?keys=%22James+Ayres%22&sort_by=search_api_relevance&sort_order=DESC
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Discover EverAfter (NZ Cemeteries)
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Discover EverAfter manages burial records for several cemeteries around New Zealand
Source: Copyright Plotbox Inc / limited search results excerpts for "personal, non-commercial use"
| Name | Date of Death | Age at Death | Cemetery | Plot Location | Section | Row | Plot No. | Funeral Type |
| Timothy James Burnley AYRES | 24 Feb 1968 📰 | Unknown | Purewa Cemetery, Auckland Region | STILLBORN/NEWBORN/03/019 | STILLBORN/NEWBORN | 03 | 019 | Burial |
| FREDERICK JAMES AYRES | 61 | Karori Crematorium and Chapels, Wellington Region | Cremation |
Intention to Marry