Welcome to my Family Story and Family Tree. The Stories. 1. Introduction to Rod Ayres’s family tree. 2. What train of events brought about this family with six Ayres siblings, in York? 3. The Scruton lineage in the York area, from 1819 to convergence with the Ayre lineage. 4. The Ayre(s) lineage in North Yorkshire, from 1819 to convergence with the Scruton lineage. 5. Observations made while discovering the Cook lineage in North Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire, from mid 1600s 6. A line of some of the pre-Victorian ancestors on the Cook lineage from mid 1600s to 1841. 7. The story of my great great granddad, William Cook. 8. My great grandparents on the Ayres line. 9. Around and about The Swinegate Quarter in Victorian Times and in 2014. 10. The Ayres family in York’s Swinegate Quarter, from 1891 to1900. 11. The mysteriously unrecorded disappearance of my great grandfather, William John Ayre. 12a. What happened to William John Ayre. 12b. Susannah and her husband William Scott after their marriage in 1909. 13. In 1910, my great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Ayre married William Ward, her second husband. 14. Where Ayres siblings were at 1911 census. 15. After 1911, Granddad’s brother, Alfred. 16. My granddad’s brother, Albert Ayres post 1911, and his decendants. 17. My granddad (Charles) Ernest Ayres, from 1911 to 1918 when he married. 18. A brief history of my grandmother’s lineage, the Blythin line. 19. My great aunts, i.e. my grandmother, Myfanwy’s siblings. 20. About Ernest and Myfanwy and their own descendants from 1918 onwards. 21. Granddad’s brother, John Robert Ayres, Bob, (1900-1961) 22. Philip Ayre(s) from his birth in Q2-1845 until he died in December 1916.