Oscar Vincent Pooley (1877)

Born 1877 in Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Oscar Vincent Pooley was born at Reading, Berkshire, England in the March quarter of 1877.^[1]

Oscar Vincent Pooley, age 3 years, was christened at St. Marys, Reading, Berkshire, England, 24 Jul 1879. Mother Elizabeth Simmons Pooley, father Charles Pooley.^[2]

Oscar Pooley is an Anzac who served in the Boer War.

Oscar Vincent Pooley, farmer at Colac, joined the 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen/Australian Imperial Regiment (A.I.R.) (regimental number 282) and sailed from Port Melbourne on the "Victorian" on 1 May 1900 for South Africa.^[3][4]

Oscar married Esther Dorothy Fourie at Johannesburg 6th December 1911.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XXW-213 : 1 October 2014), Oscar Vincent Pooley, 1877; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Reading, Berkshire, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
2. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7HL-D62 : 21 March 2020), Oscar Vincent Pooley, 1879.
3. ↑ https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1436882
4. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9539784
5. ↑ "South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Marriages, 1870-1930," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPW8-RVK3 : 27 September 2019), Oscar Vincent Pooley and Esther Dorothy Fourie, Johannesburg, Johannesburg; citing Marriage, , NARS "Civil registration (marriages - coloureds), Transvaal and Swaziland, 1898-1927." The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria.