Aaron Ayers
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Aaron Ayers arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, from England as a newly married man in his mid 20s. He was a hairdresser and tobacconist for two decades before entering the auctioneering business. H
Aaron Ayers wearing the mayoral chain
Ayers, Beauchamp & Co auction building in Cashel Street
The headstone of Aaron and Isabella Eliza Ayers at Linwood Cemetery
William Wilson (mayor)
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William Barbour Wilson, also known as Cabbage Wilson, was the first Mayor of Christchurch in New Zealand in 1868. A nurseryman by profession, he had large landholdings in Christchurch. His reputation
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…Samuel Manning, Samuel Paull Andrews, William Prudhoe and Charles Gray), nine ex mayors (John Ollivier, Henry Sawtell, Fred Hobbs, Henry Thomson, William Wilson, Charles Hulbert, James Gapes, John Anderson and George Ruddenklau) and 13 ex councillors (including Daniel Reese). It was the most keenly contested…
Painting of William "Cabbage" Wilson (probably 1867)
Headstone for Wilson and his son William John in the Linwood cemetery