Eliza Ann WIRTH [Eliza Ann OAKLEY]

1874 - 1968  (93 years)

• Name	Eliza Ann WIRTH
  Known As	Eliza Ann OAKLEY
  Birth	02 Nov 1874	Portland, Victoria, Australia   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	30 Jan 1968	Kew, Victoria, Australia   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I17537	NZ Genealogy Project
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Johann Nicolaus WIRTH [Nicolaus],   b. 27 Jul 1833, Rothselberg, Rhine-Westphalia, Germany d. Aft 1898 (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Eliza EVANS,   b. 1838, Tooting, Surrey, England d. 23 Mar 1890, Portland, Victoria, Australia (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	06 Jun 1858	Geelong, Victoria, Australia   [2, 5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F5887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Wainfleet CROSSLEY [Frank],   b. 07 Dec 1866, Plaistow, Essex, England d. 25 Aug 1932, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	1900	Victoria, Australia   [1, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Beatrice Emily CROSSLEY [Trix],   b. 13 Jul 1901, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia d. 18 Apr 1991, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia (Age 89 years)   2. Wainfleet William CROSSLEY,   b. 1903, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia d. 1904, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia (Age 1 year)   3. Lilian Louise CROSSLEY,   b. 1903, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia d. 1903, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia (Age 0 years)   4. Horace Edward CROSSLEY,   b. 01 May 1904, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia d. 20 Oct 1973, Mortlake, Victoria, Australia (Age 69 years)   5. Leslie William CROSSLEY,   b. 1907, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia d. 27 Feb 1965, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 58 years)   6. Evelyn May CROSSLEY,   b. 1908, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia d. 1909, Penshurst, Victoria, Australia (Age 1 year)   7. Francis Eric CROSSLEY [Eric],   b. 09 Apr 1910, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia d. 26 Mar 1979, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 68 years)   8. Charles Clifford CROSSLEY [Cliff],   b. 02 Jul 1912, Panmure, Victoria, Australia d. 12 Jun 1992, Victoria, Australia (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F5874	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 02 Nov 1874 - Portland, Victoria, Australia Marriage - 1900 - Victoria, Australia Death - 30 Jan 1968 - Kew, Victoria, Australia  = Link to Google Earth
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  SURNAME WIRTH and OAKLEY According to the Victoria birth registrations, Eliza Evans and Nicolaus WIRTH had eleven children between 1859 and 1879. Eliza remarried in 1883, to Thomas OAKLEY, and indicated that Nicolaus had died in 1869 and there were two surviving children from the marriage. Her two eldest sons (Nicholas James and Thomas William aged 24 and 20 years) continued to use their father's surname. However the other seven living children (aged 16-5 years when she remarried) used the surname of their step-father, and when their marriage was registered they used the surname OAKLEY. No record of Nicolaus Wirth's death has been located yet, although he was sentenced for begging in 1898. It is possible that the father of some of the youngest children of Eliza Evans was Thomas Oakley. The surname OAKLEY has been used by genealogists, as evidenced by family trees published on ancestry.com. For example, the father of Alice Louisa OAKLEY (born 1873) is listed as Thomas OAKLEY in ten family trees. There are no family trees for Alice Louisa WIRTH (born 1873). I have used the surname WIRTH for all the children as this was the name registered at birth. I have also noted that the surname OAKLEY was used. Another Eliza Ann Oakley In April 1895 a case was heard in the Warrnambool Police Court where two men were accused of an alleged outrage on a young woman named Eliza Ann Oakley. Her father, Samuel Oakley from Warrnambool, gave evidence. The accused were discharged after the defence produced evidence that Eliza's description of events was not supported by other witnesses and that she had previously had improper relations with another man. Source: Camperdown Chronicle, 30 April 1895, Page 2. As noted in the report of the trial, this girl's father was Samuel Oakley. She was born in 1876 at Warrnambool, her mother being Elizabeth Tyler according to the Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages website. Frequently this girl has been confused with the daughter of Eliza Evans registered at birth as Eliza Ann Wirth, but subsequently called Eliza Ann Oakley when she married Wainfleet William Crosley in 1900. For example, ancestry.com has 32 family trees incorrectly showing the parents of Eliza Ann Oakley who married Wainfleet William Crosley as Samuel Oakley and Elizabeth Tyler. I initially had this error, until contacted by Wendy Cain who had a copy of Wainfleet William Crosley's marriage registration. She noted that Eliza, the daughter of Samuel Oakley, was involved in a scandal in 1895 and had possibly changed her name and or moved away from Warrnambool. Wendy had been unable to find a death registration for Eliza, but she was listed as "dead" on her father's (Samuel) death certificate in 1923.

  
  

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