Frank WIRTH [Frank OAKLEY]

1867 - 1938  (70 years)

• Name	Frank WIRTH
  Known As	Frank OAKLEY
  Birth	17 Jun 1867	Portland, Victoria, Australia   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	05 Jul 1894  [3]
  	Railway Driver, Western Australia
  Occupation	18 Apr 1907  [3]
  	Railway Driver, Perth, Western Australia
  Death	13 Jun 1938	Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia   [2, 4, 5]
  Burial	Karrakatta, Perth, Western Australia, Australia   [5]
  Person ID	I17586	NZ Genealogy Project
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2020

  
  

  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   [1, 2, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F5887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah CATCHPOLE,   b. 1871, Spring Creek, Victoria, Australia d. 06 Jan 1899, Northam, Western Australia, Australia (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	1891	Victoria, Australia   [1, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Irene Gladys OAKLEY,   b. 1892, Footscray, Victoria, Australia d. 05 Sep 1974, Hilton, Western Australia, Australia (Age 82 years)   2. Catherine Thelma OAKLEY,   b. 1896, Northam, Western Australia, Australia d. 22 Jul 1983, New South Wales, Australia (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F6698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Theresa MURPHY,   b. 1876   d. 16 Aug 1959, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	1903	Perth, Western Australia, Australia   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Theodosia Valerie OAKLEY [Thea],   b. 1904, Midland Junction, Western Australia, Australia d. 07 May 1993, Rockingham, Western Australia, Australia (Age 89 years)   2. Margorie F OAKLEY,   b. 1906, Swan, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  Family ID	F5891	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 17 Jun 1867 - Portland, Victoria, Australia Marriage - 1891 - Victoria, Australia Marriage - 1903 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia Death - 13 Jun 1938 - Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia Burial - - Karrakatta, Perth, Western Australia, Australia  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S27] Victoria BDM Register, Victoria BDM Register, (Department for Victorian Communities, Melbourne, Australia), none. [S1641] Bruce James (bruceJames16 ), Ancestry.com - Public Member Tree - James Family Tree, (Ancestry.com). [S1643] Western Australia, Railway Records, 1879-1946, (ancestry.com). [S1370] Western Australia BDM Indexes, (Western Australia Government, https://bdm.justice.wa.gov.au). [S1228] Western Australia Metropolitan Cemeteries Search, (Western Australia Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au). [S1220] Birth Registration. [S1271] Marriage Registration. Married 6th June 1858 at the Lutheran Church, Geelong; Nicolaus Wirth, Bachelor, born Rothselberg, Bavaria, musician, age 26, resident of Geelong, parents Johannes Wirth, farmer and Catherine Gehm; Eliza Evans, spinster, born Surrey, England, age 21 years, resident of Geelong, parents James Evans, Laborer, and Elizabeth Horton. [S1660] Cheryl Kennedy, Ancestry.com - Public Member Tree - Daniels and Stuart, (Ancestry.com).