Oswald James Augustus Weakley ⁵

  General Notes:

No issue.

Info ex Dorri Roughley:-
* He appeared as a Scholar on the census in 1871 in Grahamstown Villa, Mary Street, Kings Norton.
* He appeared as a Scholar on the census in 1881 in Ash Furlong Hall Classical School, Sutton Coldfield, Warickshire.
* He was educated on 4 Oct 1884 in The Mason College, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Prizes Practical Chemistry
* He appeared as a Photographic Dealer on the census in 1891 in 144 Meadow Street, Moss Side, Lancs.

  Birth Notes:

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Kings Norton RD.

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  Death Notes:

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Cause of his death was Phthisis -1 1/2 years, Haemoptysis. Phthisis is a Greek term for tuberculosis; around 460 BC, Hippocrates identified phthisis as the most widespread disease of the times involving coughing up blood and fever, which was almost always fatal.

  Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• General Comment. ²³ Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared as a Scholar on the census in 1871 in Grahamstown Villa, Mary Street, Kings Norton.
• He appeared as a Scholar on the census in 1881 in Ash Furlong Hall Classical School, Sutton Coldfield, Warickshire.
• He was educated on 4 Oct 1884 in The Mason College, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Prizes Practical Chemistry.
• He appeared as a Photographic Dealer on the census in 1891 in 144 Meadow Street, Moss Side, Lancs.
• He worked as a Proprietor on 7 Mar 1897 in Berlin Wool Shop, Brighton, Sussex.
• He had an estate probated Lewes on 31 Mar 1897.12 Granted to Eliza Weakley, widow, effects £283 12s 2d - occupation given as Chemist.

• General Comment. ²³ Dorri Roughley Writes:-

"There seems to be something a little strange about Oswald and his wife Eliza Burgess. I have had a look at Eliza's life, and have yet to fully record it on my system. She appears to have grown up in a riverside inn, the Navigation Hotel, on the River Weaver, at Over, Winsford, Cheshire. By the time she was 11 her father had died, leaving her mother, Hannah, to run the inn, it is probable that they did not actually own the inn, but paid rent to a landlord. An inn like this would have had boat people as it's main clients, as this river had been adapted to take boats and barges from the salt mines and chemical works and at this point is known as the River Weaver Navigation. Last time I was in the area (about 7 years ago) I saw cargo boats still using the river as the mines and some of the works still exsist. Generally 'Hotels' like this did not have a very good reputation. The Navigation Hotel no longer exsists so I cannot judge it by it's size, and I have not found anything to suggest that it was anything but an inn for the boat people. By 1891 the family had moved to Stretford, which is now part of Manchester, and Eliza was working as a shop assistant. Stretford is not too far from Moss Side where Oswald was 'caught' on the 1891 census.

By now Oswald's father James had retired to Hastings. I get the general feeling that James was a very wealthy man, richer than his brother Samuel. This is reflected in the very 'good' marriage his daughter Ada had made to James Meers in 1884. So I wonder what James thought of his new daughter-in-law, who did not come from a well to do background. On the wedding certificate she declared that her father was a Hotel Proprietor. Within a year of the marriage Oswald had died of TB which he had been suffering from for 18 months. I would have expected James to have supported his widowed daughter-in-law, but it appears he did not. In the 1901 census she is working as Draper's assistant in Putney, London, and living in the shop's accommodation, effectively back to what she doing before her marriage. I cannot find any trace of her after 1901.".

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Oswald married Eliza Burgess, daughter of Thomas Burgess and Hannah Taylor, on 10 Jun 1896 in Parish Church of Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, England. (Eliza Burgess was born calculated 27 Nov 1869 in Salford, Cheshire, England, christened on 2 Jan 1870 in Witton-cum-Twambrooks, Cheshire, England and died on 27 Jun 1935 in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.)

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