AINLAY

From Normandy to England, England to Canada, Canada to the United States, the movement of the Ainlay name was ever westward for eight centuries until Ernest Ainlay repatriated the surname to Ontario, Canada in the early-20th century. Contact with this branch of the family tree has been lost by the sun-led Ainlays, and any information which might help fill in the gaps of this part of the history would be most gratefully appreciated. E-mail can be sent to Thomas Ainlay Jr. by clicking HERE.

Honoring the surnames of spouses as middle names of children is something of a tradition of in the Ainlay family. Ernest Hartley Ainlay's middle name is obviously taken from the maiden name of his mother, Jane T.E. Hartley, and he passed it along to his first-born son, Warren Hartley Ainlay. In honor of his own wife, their second son Gary was given the middle name Draper. In the 1950s, Ernest Hartley Ainlay was working as an executive at the National Trust Company of Toronto and residing on Indian Road in Port Credit, Ontario, according to his first cousin, Albert "Alex" Ernest Ainlay. More information about this branch of Ainlay name-bearers would be most welcome, indeed.

All that been passed on as family knowledge of John Henry Ainlay is that he lived on Clifton Avenue in Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada and owned a garage in the 1950s. He and his wife, Verna, had two daughters at that time.

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