Talk:James Oatley

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I have personal copies of the will of James Oatley [also available at the Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney] and the marriage certificate of Marianne to Jeremiah Borrett and of her death certificate. The Death Index states erroneously that Marianne's mother was Sophia, but no name for her mother was given on the death certificate. Marianne's death notice in the Sydney Morning Herald [see TROVE Index, National Library of Australia] was inserted by her half-brothers James, jnr and Frederick; Robert has no mention at all. (I was looking for information on James and Frederick Oatley when I found the death notice of Marianne. Naturally I sought more details, now here on Wikipedia.) I have sighted personally an available copy of the 1825 Muster of New South Wales [available in major libraries], with its detailed structure of the Oatley household. The 1828 Census was fundamentally a head count of each household, with no attention paid to the internal structure of the household.

Information on James Oatley and his first wife, Sarah Bennett, is available on the website of the Marist Brother's School, Penshurst, New South Wales. This very informative document is well worth finding and reading. I have taken a personal interest in James Oatley and have quite a collection of information on him. Whipstick (talk) 05:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]