Around the age of 12, Ayliffe, with a brother and two sisters, were placed in the guardianship of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (18 December 1751 – 11 November 1837), who was also executor of their father's will, and their surnames were changed to the earlier form of "Ilive".
[2] Ayliffe somehow completed his BA degree in 1800, and what formal qualifications he had to practise medicine are unclear, though he was styled "surgeon", and taught what he knew to his sons.
[2] The Earl died on 11 November 1837 and Col. George Wyndham (5 June 1787 – 18 March 1869), who inherited everything except the title, settled £40,000 on Ayliffe in the form of land in South Australia selected by Frederick Mitchell: some 160 acres (65 ha) in the Adelaide foothills near Sturt Creek (sections 12, 13 and 14, Hundred of Adelaide),[3] some 600 or 700 acres (240 or 280 ha) near Clare, and a large area on Yorke Peninsula, as well as livestock and buildings.
Thomas and (presumably) Hester with their three sons and families emigrated to South Australia on the Pestonjee Bomanjee, arriving in October 1838.
They settled on their foothills property, dubbed "Wyndham Farm", their first residence being a prefabricated wooden structure, a "Manning's portable cottage" or similar,[4] and a substantial house was completed soon after.
[2] He lived at "Wyndham Farm" with his family,[5] and opened a medical practice with his sons George and Henry as T.H., G., & H. Ayliffe, in the former residence of R. Craigie, Angas Street near Drummond's Scotch Secession Church.
Her name appears on the Pestonjee Bomanjee passenger list but, as with their son Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe (c. 1812–1895), that is no proof of her having arrived in South Australia.
Two married daughters (Cecelia, who may have been born as early as 1791, and Frances) remained in England, and their second son (Thomas) Hamilton Ayliffe (c. 1812 – 28 July 1895), though booked on the Pestonjee Bomanjee, did not emigrate until years later; the reason is not clear.
It is also not certain that Thomas Ayliffe's wife Hester was on board; no record of her death, or her being in South Australia have been found.
George Hamilton Ayliffe, in full perhaps George Edward Frederick Hamilton Ayliffe,[8] (1810 – 13 October 1844) and his wife Elizabeth née Sanders (1809 – 26 October 1894) also emigrated on the Pestonjee Bomanjee in 1838, and settled in "Belle Vue" cottage, South Road, St Marys.
[2] His son, also named George Hamilton Ayliffe (25 May 1840 – 2 November 1906), succeeded H. T. Whittell as Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages in January 1889.
[3] In 1873 he went to New Zealand, where he invested in gold mining ventures, then eight years in the Northern Territory, then worked in Adelaide from 1881 or earlier as an auctioneer and commission agent, with offices in Currie Street.
She was the author of many poems printed in the daily Press, such as Want,[12] Christmas Sonnet,[13] The Story of Cree and Cri[14] and published poetry collections: and several novels serialized in South Australian newspapers: Cecelia Hamilton Wyndham Ayliffe (24 August 1838 – 6 November 1915) was born on the Pestonjee Bomanjee.
[20] Cecilia made trips to New Zealand in 1887 and San Francisco in 1889, during which she falsely claimed that she was a correspondent for the London Morning Post.
[18] She subsequently left for England in search of a possible inheritance,[21] but her court case failed due to forged documents; she died on 6 November 1915 in St John’s Wood, Middlesex.
He served as clerk of the Local Court, on the Stockport District Council, and returning-officer for Wooroora and Light for several years.
[27] The list below is not exhaustive, but is expected to include all members of the family likely to be encountered in histories of early European settlement.
Dr. Henry Hamilton Ayliffe (1818 – 24 April 1890) married Esther Sanders (c. 1815 – 11 March 1880) in 1844, lived in Angaston.