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Ayres, Henry (1833)

Ayres, Henry

Carmarthen, Wales; cabinet maker (fl. 1833)

Son of a Swansea joiner, he set up in Carmarthen shortly after 1800. In 1812 he spent time in gaol for debt and his stock was sold off. The insolvency notice described him as ‘cabinet maker and joiner’. Business resumed by 1815 and in 1833 Ayres and fellow cabinet maker David Morley jnr were signatories of a petition for electoral reform. His business closed in 1839 and he died in London in 1843. His son and partner Daniel Ayres had moved to Swansea by 1850.

Source: Bebb, Welsh Furniture (2007), II, pp. 185, 228 & 286.