Notes A birth registration was found for Elsie Ayre: Year of Registration: 1892; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: Islington; County: Greater London, London, Middlesex; Volume: 1b; Page: 352.
In 1901, Elsie Ayre, 9 years of age, was residing at 24 Londesborough Road, Stoke Newington, London, England. Other family members included: Arthur Ayre, 4; Frederick Ayre, 45, baker / bread maker; Frederick Ayre, 10; Maud Ayre, 7; and Myria Ayre, 40. (Source: 1901 Census of England; Class: RG13; Piece: 206; Folio: 60; Page: 34.)
In 1910, Elsie Ayre, 17 (along with her sister, Maud Ayre, 15) arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a group of 395 children en route to Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. (Their brother, Arthur Ayre, had previously arrived in 1909 on the Dominion.)
In 1911, Elsie Ayre, 19, is shown as a domestic to Sylvester G. and Mary Elizabeth McFane in South Dumfries, Brant, Ontario, Canada. Her date of birth is shown as March 1892, her birthplace as Ireland and her immigration year as 1910.
On February 21, 1912, in Dumfries, Brant, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Elsie Ayre, 19, born in Dublin, Ireland, daughter of Frederick Ayre and Marie Annie McClellan; and Sheldon M. Grier, 27, born in Oxford, Ontario, Canada, son of John Grier and Elizabeth Annie Paynter.