Harriet Louisa (Roberts) Oaten (abt. 1848 - 1884)

Born about 1848 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Wife of Charles Oaten — married 25 Feb 1865 in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 6 Mar 1884 at about age 36 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

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Harriet was born in 1848 at Hobart. She was the daughter of Thomas Roberts and Sarah (?) Harriet Louisa Roberts moved to Melbourne circa 1863.^[1] Harriet lived in January 1865 at at 32 Lennox Street in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond.^[2] She was a domestic in February 1865.^[3]

She married Charles Oaten, a carter born in London, son of John Oaten and Charlotte Amelia Pellett, a civil service at the Registry Office on Saturday, 25 February 1865 at the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Harriet had to get prior permission from a JP due to her age. It's not clear why they chose a civil service over a religious one. The wedding certificate was also signed by Helen Messinger Wallis. Others who almost certainly attended the wedding include Charlotte Amelia Pellett as mother of the groom and John Oaten as father of the groom. Harriet and Charles went on to have six children together, three of whom lived into their adulthood.^[4] She presumably lived with her spouse Charles at at 126 Gertrude Street in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in November 1865. This house was a 2 room house.^[5]

Harriet and Charles Oaten, aged 22 became the parents of Charles Henry Oaten on Monday, 22 January 1866 at at 124 Gertrude Street in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.^[6],^[7]

The Oaten family moved frequently between rented houses in Fitzroy in the late 1860's and early 1870's. In January 1867 they were in a two-room brick house at 75 St. David Street, before moving on to 16 Alma Street (a three-room brick house) and then next door at number 14 - back to a two room house. Both of these houses were owned by George Butler who lived at number 20.^[8],^[9],^[10]

On circa 1870 her son George died at the approximate age of 4.

Charles had a number of jobs after he was married. He was initially a clerk in November 1865, then described himself as a carrier in 1867, a chimneysweep in 1869, then a drayman in 1872 (which he was to remain for the rest of his working life).^[11],^[12],^[13],^[14],^[15],^[16]

The young Oaten family moved to a four room wooden house in Victoria Parade in 1871. This house was just off the street, close to the corner of Young Street.

In 1871 they moved to Valiant Street in the neighbouring suburb of East Collingwood for a short while then to Hunter Street Collingwood. It was only when the family moved to Sackville Street in Collingwood in 1873 that they put down roots and stayed for 15 years.^[17],^[18],^[19],^[20],^[21]

They initially lived in a wooden house on Sackville Street, right on the corner of Smith Street This house was rented from John Tulloch who lived next door. However, in about 1875 they moved two doors up to a house initially rented from a Miss Scott, and then from Thomas Latham, a clerk who briefly lived next door.^[22],^[23],^[24],^[25] Charles (and presumably his spouse Harriet) lived at at 14 Sackville Street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood.^[26]

Harriet provided information on the death of her sister Lucy Young, on 23 July 1875, at at 10 Market Street in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.^[27] She presumably lived with her spouse Charles at at 14 Sackville Street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood.^[28]

Harriet died on 6 March 1884 at Collingwood of convulsions and exhaustion that had been happening for one year.^[29] Her body was interred at Melbourne General Cemetery on 7 March 1884 at the Melbourne suburb of Carlton. The funeral was officiated by a Church of England minister. She is buried in plot MGC-COE-Comp-FF-No-318.40,^[30]

Sources

1. ↑ Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1884 No.975.
2. ↑ Victoria, Marriage Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1865 No.1121.
3. ↑ Victoria, Marriage Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1865 No.1121.
4. ↑ Victoria, Marriage Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1865 No.1121.
5. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] Gertrude Street.
6. ↑ Victoria, Birth Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1866 No.1592 (index only).
7. ↑ Victoria, Birth Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1888 No.10476.
8. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] St. David Street.
9. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] Alma Street.
10. ↑ Sands Directories,Victoria, Australia (various dates), 1870 p.534.
11. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] Gertrude Street.
12. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] St. David Street.
13. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] Alma Street.
14. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] Victoria Parade.
15. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Hunter Street 1872.
16. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Sackville Street 1889.
17. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Fitzroy [copy of VPRS 4301] [1858-1901] Victoria Parade.
18. ↑ Sands Directories,Victoria, Australia (various dates), 1872 p.366.
19. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Hunter Street 1872.
20. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Hunter Street 1872.
21. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Sackville Street 1887.
22. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Sackville Street.
23. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Sackville Street 1881.
24. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Sackville Street 1879.
25. ↑ Victoria, Rate Books, 1855-1963 City of Collingwood [copy of VPRS 377] [1864-1901] Sackville Street 1877.
26. ↑ Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1884 No.975.
27. ↑ Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1875 No.10015.
28. ↑ Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1884 No.975.
29. ↑ Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1884 No.975.
30. ↑ Victoria, Death Certificate, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages 1884 No.975.