James Oatley

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iain Frazier on 28th December 2023

Family connections for James (Oatley) are: OATLEY There remains some confusion with (Bogg) & (Stokes) here. James (Oatley) was born about 1770, perhaps in Stafford, & became a clock & watch maker. He had a history of stealing & spent 6years imprisoned in the hulks. He seems to have had a first relationship with Mary (Stokes her second (2of4) relationship). He was living at Stafford when tried for stealing household goods at Southampton Assizes on 7 3 1814, sentenced to death reprieved to Life, held at Winchester Castle & arrived in NSW as a convict on 27 1 1815 after a voyage of 5months on MARQUIS OF WELLINGTON. He was employed firstly as a mechanic, lived with his family & became watch & clockmaker at George St Sydney - & became keeper of the Town Clock & was commissioned to make a clock for the turret of Prisoners Barracks Macquarie St which was completed in June 1819. He was issued his Conditional Pardon on 25 10 1821.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] .. Smees records show that he married firstly Mary Ann (Bogg) in Staffordshire. Mary Ann (Bogg) arrived in NSW with her child following her husband on 18 6 1815 after a voyage of 6.5months on NORTHAMPTON. see Mary (Stokes) just below. James (Oatley) & Mary Ann (Bogg) produced 2children: 1.Emma Selina (Bogg) was born in 1811 in Staffordshire. She arrived in NSW with her mother on 18 6 1815 after a voyage of 6.5months on NORTHAMPTON. She seems to have taken her step fathers name (Lycett) see just below. 2.Robert (Bogg) was born on 17 2 1815 at sea & arrived in NSW with his mother on 18 6 1815 after a voyage of 6.5months on NORTHAMPTON. .. [Mary (Stokes maybe Mary Ann (Bogg)) had a first (1of4) relationship with Joseph (Lycett perhaps his first relationship). She was arrested in London & tried with Joseph (Lycett) for forgery. She was placed on bail early in 1811 to care for offspring before being acquitted at Ludlow Shropshire Assizes on 10 8 1811.>>>] [Joseph (Lycett/Lysaght) was born in 1774 in Litchfield Staffordshire & became a portrait & miniature painter. He was arrested in London & tried with Mary (Stokes) for forgery at Ludlow Shropshire Assizes on 10 8 1811, sentenced to 14years, held at Shrewsbury Gaol & hulks at Portsmouth from July 1812. He successfully sought custody of his daughter Mary Ann. He arrived in NSW as a convict on 7 2 1814 after a voyage 6months on GENERAL HEWITT; where his daughter joined him-to be placed in Female Orphan School. He was appointed as clerk at a police office. He was convicted in 1815 of forging 5shilling bills, sentenced to 3years & sent to Newcastle penal settlement, as Josh (Lyaght) on 8 7 1815 on LADY NELSON. On 8 11 1817, as (Lyatt) he was given a pass to visit Sydney-a measure of his trust. On 14 11 1817, as (Lyatt) he was wounded by natives at Port Stephens. He designed a church for the Governer which was built in 1818 & painted the altar piece & perhaps three-light window which still survives in the bishop's vestry of Newcastle Cathedral. He was issued his Conditional Pardon in about 1818. He returned to Sydney in 1819 & continued painting & drawing-with the Governors personal approval. He was issued his Absolute Pardon on 28 11 1821; he seems to have become chronically alcoholic. He associated secondly with ??? (???) whom he perhaps married. He acquired substantial money & in September 1822 he took his daughters to England on SHIPLEY. In 1824 & 1825 he started publishing his drawings. While living near Bath he forged some notes on the Stourbridge Bank & was arrested; he cut his throat & when recovering in hospital on 9 2 1828 he is said to have torn open the wound and killed himself age54; he was father of perhaps 2children.] [Some details taken from this Website] [Mary (Stokes) & Joseph (Lycett) produced perhaps 2children:] [1.Mary Ann (perhaps (Lycett) & perhaps not child of Mary (Stokes)] was born about 1804. She arrived at Botany Bay NSW in company with Ann (Hubbard) - her mother was on the same ship - on 9 1 1814 after a voyage of 5months on WANSTEAD to join her father. From 1815 she was placed in the Female Orphan School until 1821. She was taken to UK by her father in 1822.] [..Ann (Hubbard), at age about 24, had come to NSW to join her husband George (Hubbard) who had been tried for high treason (assistance to French prisoners during Napoleonic Wars) at Shropshire Assizes & arrived in NSW on 7 2 1814 after a voyage of 11months on GENERAL HEWETT-from entry on this Website.>>>] [..Ann & George (Hubbard) produced 2children-Sarah Sophia on 12 8 1816 & Catherine in 1818.] .. [>>>Ann (Hubburd/Hibbert) married secondly Thomas (Wright 1810 INDIAN) in 1818 & produced another child-Ann in 1817; She married thirdly John (Glass) in 1829.] .. 2.Emma Selina (Lycett) was baptised in April 1812 at Shrewsbury Shropshire. She arrived in NSW with her mother on 18 6 1815 after a voyage of 6.5months on NORTHAMPTON. She may have spent some years in Female Orphan School. She was taken to UK by her father in 1822. She returned to NSW as an assisted immigrant in 1833 & was reunited with her mother. She married George (Slater) in Sydney in 1833. .. >>>Mary (Stokes) seems to have had a third (3of4) relationship with an unknown we are told, but see just below, & produced another child:>>> 1.Robert (???) of uncertain parentage was born in April 1814 near Rio de Janeiro on board NORTHAMPTON & arrived in NSW on 18 6 1815. He was adopted by James (Oatley). .. [>>>Mary (Stokes) is shown on this Website as arrived in NSW free posing as Mrs Sarah (Oatley) with her children on 18 6 1815 after a voyage of 6.5months on NORTHAMPTON. However, Smees records show her as Mary Ann (Bogg), see just above. She married thirdly Charles (Howell) in 1832 (posing as Mrs (Johnstone) widow). She was reunited with her daughter Emma in 1833. She died in 1838 at the home of her husband in Brickfield Hill, mother of perhaps 8children.] [However, Smees records show that Mary (Stokes) arrived at Botany Bay NSW free on 9 1 1814 after a voyage of 5months on WANSTEAD (her daughter was on the same ship)] [Charles (Howell) ] .. James (Oatley) & Mary (Stokes/Bogg) produced 5children: girls then boys 1.Emma Selina (Oatley) = just above 2.Robert (???/Oatley) = just above 3.James (Oatley/Oakley) was born on 16 4 1817 & baptised on 18 5 1817 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. (He is also recorded as born on 7/17 6 1817 & baptised on 7 9 1817 at St Phillips CofE Sydney.) He became apprenticed as a coachmaker. In March 1837 his father made bequests in his Will. In 1847 he was licensee of Sportsman's Arms Hotel Pitt/Goulburn Streets Sydney. He was member of old City Council & alderman of new Municipal Council from 1857-& mayor in 1862. He was Legislative Assembly member for Canterbury in 1864-69. He died on 31 12 1878 age61 at his home in Bourke St Woolloomooloo & was buried at Camperdown cemetery.] 4.Frederick Augustus (Oatley) was born on 30 4 1819 & baptised on 23 5 1819 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. In 1839 he took over the watchmaking business after death of his father. In March 1837 his father made bequests in his Will & in September 1839 he was also bequested 'Newton' 40acres. He died in 1890 age71. 5.George (Oatley) was born on 16 12 1820 & baptised on 7 1 1821 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He died on 30 5 1821 age5m in Sydney & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney. .. >>>James (Oatley) had a property arrangement on 10 5 1831 for an Elizabeth St property with Mary Ann (Cowell)-in October 1831 he was granted 175acres at Hurstville, 30 acres in August 1833 & 40acres in December 1835-the suburb of Oatley is named after him. He married secondly Mary Ann (Cowell/Cowle her third marriage (3of4) 36years age difference) on 16 9 1833 (or 1838).>>> Mary Ann (Cowell/Cowle) was born in 1805 near Ballaugh Isle of Man & baptised on 21 4 1805; she became a needlewoman. She was tried with her sister & brother in law for stealing ribbon & lace of Mrs (Clarke) at Castletown Douglas Isle of Man on 27 8 1822, sentenced to 7years, held at Castle Rushen Gaol Delivery, removed on 18 4 1823 on MAJESTIC to Liverpool & arrived in NSW as a convict on 5 10 1823 after a voyage of 4months on MARY; she was Protestant 5'6" fair freckled complexion brown hair chestnut eyes. On 4 9 1824 she was assigned to Anne (Evans) in Phillip St & in 1825 was working for Mrs (Peate) in Sydney. She had a first (1of4) relationship with Robert (Ivory)). She married secondly (2of4) Robert (Bogg his second marriage) emancipist with permission on 10 7 1826 at St Phillips CofE Sydney & produced 1child. She is recorded in 1825 with son Robert (Ivory) in Sydney & in 1828. She was issued her Certificate of Freedom 29/1831 0n 27 8 1829. She bought land in Elizabeth St Sydney & assigned it to James (Oatley) on 10 5 1831. In March 1837 her husband willed a house in Parish of St Lawrence Sydney & 'Newton' farm 40acres (which he annulled in September 1839 due to her adultery) to her-she had left her husband about March 1838, probably to live with James F. Hulle (whom she later married in 1841 at St Johns CofE Parramatta).>>> [Some details taken from this Website] .. Mary Ann (Cowell/Bogg) & James (Oatley) are recorded as producing another 1child: 1.??? (Oatley) was born in 1839. .. >>>Mary Ann (Cowell) married fourthly William F (Hulle) in 1841 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 28 2 1842 of intemperance age37 mother of 3or5known children & was buried at St Johns CofE Parramatta. William F (Hulle) blacksmith arrived in Australia from Hanover Germany as an immigrant in 1835 on WARRIOR. References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Family History Group of Bathurst Inc.'Bathurst Pioneers-Register of Pioneer Families Of Bathurst NSW And District <1900'

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D Wong on 28th September 2014

Oatley, James (1770–1839) James Oatley (1770-1839), watch maker and settler, was a clock and watch maker of Stafford, England, when at the age of 44 he was convicted at the Southampton Assizes on 7 March 1814 and sentenced to transportation for life. He arrived in Sydney in the Marquis of Wellington on 27 January 1815. His wife Mary came free in the Northampton on 18 June, (Prior to Oatley’s arrest in England, there is evidence that he lived with Mary Stokes. Mary had been tried with Joseph LYCETT in 1811 for possession of forging equipment and unfinished bank notes, but found to be innocent. Lycett was banished from England as a convict on the ship "General Hewitt" in 1813. In 1814 while Lycett was in Sydney & Oatley was being held in the hulks, Mary Stokes fell pregnant and gave birth to a son, Robert, later adopted and raised by Oatley who denied paternity. To gain a free passage to Australia, Mary Stokes posed as Sarah Oatley, legal wife of James, and travelled to Sydney on the ship Northampton in 1815, with a daughter, Emma). Oatley and Mary Stokes lived together in Sydney and their first child, James Jnr., was born in 1817, and another son, Frederick, in 1819. Oatley set up in business as a watch and clock maker in George Street opposite the site of the present Town Hall. Governor Lachlan Macquarie appointed him keeper of the town clock and commissioned him to make a clock for the turret of the Prisoners' Barracks being built by Francis Greenway in Macquarie Street; for this service Oatley was paid £75 in June 1819. He was also reputed to have made at least six grandfather clocks, and on 25 October 1821 was conditionally pardoned. He was granted 175 acres (71 ha) in the Hurstville district in October 1831, 300 acres (121 ha) in August 1833 and 40 acres (16 ha) in December 1835, the last having been ordered in 1824 by Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane. The suburb of Oatley is named after him. James and Mary Stokes separated and they both married; Mary to Charles Howell in 1832 (posing as a widow and calling herself Mrs Johnstone); and Oatley to Mary Ann Bogg in 1833. Mary Stokes (as Howell), died in 1838 at the home of her husband in Brickfield Hill. Mary Ann Bogg arrived as a convict girl in 1823 on the ship Mary III (1) with her sister Jane (Quayle), after both were found guilty of stealing lace from a drapery at Douglas on the Isle of Man and given seven year sentences to NSW. After being assigned to two Sydney settlers, and giving birth to an illegitimate child, Robert Ivory, Mary Ann was given permission to wed the ex-convict widower Robert Bogg at St Phillip’s Church in 1826. Robert was then aged about 52 and his new wife only 21. They had a child James, who died young, and Mary Ann became a widow in May 1829 after Robert Bogg’s death. Less than one year later, Mary Ann mortgaged a house in Elizabeth Street, Sydney to James Oatley, for the sum of £180 ($360). The couple wed in September 1833. Oatley wrote a will in March 1837 stating: I give and bequeath to my lawful wife MARY ANN OATLEY ..., a Stone built house and Premises lying and situated in the Parish of St Lawrence, in the Town of Sydney ... at the date hereof tenanted by Mr Bates. Also a Farm of Land now called "Newton" containing 40 Acres,... Also the whole of the House hold Furniture, Wearing Apparel, Plate and Books which may be on my Estate named "Snugborough" at the date of my decease. Oatley also made bequests to his sons, but in September 1839 he made an addition to the will: CODICIL to this the last Will ...of James Oatley, of Sydney, Watchmaker....And whereas in consequence of the extreme ill conduct of my wife MARY ANN OATLEY who absconded from me about eighteen months past and is at the date hereof living in a state of adultery, I hereby revoke, cancel and make null and void a certain bequest made by me to her in the said Will, of an Estate of land called "Newton" containing forty acres... He then stated he wanted to give that land to his adopted son Frederick Oatley. Mary Ann had left her husband about March 1838, probably to live with James F. Hulle (who she later married in 1841). He died on 8 October 1839 and was buried in a vault on his farm, Snugsburough, near Punchbowl. His third son Frederick (1819-1890) took over the business in George Street. The second son James was born on 17 June 1817. He was apprenticed to a coach-builder and when 30 was licensee of the Sportsman's Arms Hotel at the corner of Pitt and Goulburn Streets. He was a member of the old City Council and, when it was reconstituted as the Municipal Council in 1857, he was elected an alderman and in 1862 mayor. He was member for Canterbury in the Legislative Assembly in 1864-69. He died on 31 December 1878 at his home in Bourke Street, Woolloomooloo, and was buried at Camperdown cemetery.