Peter John Thomas Ogier (Oshyer) 
Peter was born on September 30th, 1867 in Piette, Saint Peter Port, Island of Guernsey and his christening took place on May 17th, 1868 in Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales.1 2 Birth Notes
Family name at Birth 30-Sep-1867 in Paris Street (Piette), Saint Peter Port, Island of Guernsey, was Ogier.
Family name at Welsh census in 1881, was recorded as Oshier.
Family name upon arrival in Australia, was Oshyer.
Death Notes
Peter died as a result of a heart attack which caused him to fall into a well on their small farm on Queenslander Creek, Charters Towers, Qld. It is jokingly said that Janet gave him a little push because of his philandering. He died 26.8.1937. Buried at Charters Towers, North Queensland - section 25 - plot 62 - grave 8866 - Anglican.
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Not long before his death the Australian Electrol Rolls of 1936 has Peter J T Oshyer (Engine driver), living in Giru Qld, with his son James Henry O. (labourer) and daughter-in-law, Beatrice Maud nee Stephenson (home duties).
Qld Death Cert No. 1937/C3176 states that Peter John Thomas OSHYER died in Queensland in 1937. His father's name was Peter James OGIER and his mother's name was Mary OGIER (nee Averson).
Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) - Friday 27 August 1937 - News item...
“FELL DOWN WELL.
Charters Towers Fatality.
CHARTERS TOWERS, August 26.
Although Ambulance men battled for his life by the application of resuscitation methods, Peter Thomas John Oshyer, a well-known resident of Charters Towers, failed to survive a fall down a 12ft. deep well near his home on the Broughton Road this afternoon. Oshyer, an old aged pensioner, 70 years of age, went to the well at about four o'clock, it is understood, with the intention of bailing water. When he failed to re-appear, members of his family became anxious and an investigation revealed his body in the water. With the assistance of neighbours he was brought to the surface, and the Ambulance Superintendent performed artificial respiration, but without success.”
The Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld) - Friday 27 August 1937
"FUNERAL NOTICE The Relatives and Friends of Mrs. P. J. T. Oshyer and family are notified of the death of the late Mr. Peter John Thomas Oshyer. The cortege will leave the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. W. J. McAllister, Slater Street at 3 p.m. THIS DAY (Friday, August 27, 1937).
ESTATE HERBERT HALL UNDERTAKER."
General Notes
Peter John Thomas Oshyer...
Peter was born to Peter James Ogier and Mary Aveson on the 30th of September 1867 in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey. When Peter was 6 months old the family moved to Caerphilly Wales where a local minister christened Peter. Peter’s mother Mary died, when he was 7, of Phthisis Debility (consumption), after she had spent 2 years in hospital following the birth of her 4th child Martha. Martha passed away when she was 4 months old of Bronchitis convulsions.
Maria, Peter and Thomas were in the workhouse for a while, after their Mother died. Their father (Peter James Ogier) having abandoned them and gone back to Guernsey. They never heard from him again. After a while their grandmother Maria, now Fergerson (nee Warner), fostered and raised them.
It may have been during the time in the workhouse that the surname changed from Ogier to Oshier. The name Ogier was very uncommon at the time and spelt phonetically it would have come out as Oshier. In the 1881 census of Wales the name is recorded as Oshier, Peter was 13 at this time and was employed as a ‘door boy in the coal mine’.
When Peter John Thomas was 18 he migrated to Australia from London on the 'Silhet' on the 9th of October 1885, with it arriving in Maryborough Queensland on the 8th of January 1886. His name on the passenger list is recorded as Oshier but all subsequent spellings of the name is Oshyer. His occupation on leaving London was documented as a farm labourer. He met and married his first wife Mary Ann James in Eidsvold in 1889. They had 9 children — one dying at the age of 5 months. Mary Ann passed away in 1909. Peter then married Anne Eva James (nee Cracknell) in 1911 — this marriage did not last. Peter then had 6 children to Janet McAllister, who had been employed as the children's Nanny after the death of Mary Ann.
Peter died, aged 69 years, on the 26th of August 1937 after a fall down a well on his property at Queenslander Creek Charters Towers. His occupation at the time was listed as an Engine Driver. Peter is buried in the Charters Towers Cemetery
The above information is from contributions by Nonie Burton, Muriel Williams, Cheryl and Gaynor Simpson
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- b.1691 d.1755
- b.27 Mar 1757 in The parish of St Sampson on the Isle of Guernsey, Channel Islands d.1824
- b.27 Aug 1814 in Le Pierce, Guernsey d.1870
- b.1773 in Catel, Guernsey d.28 Aug 1844 in Sur la Piece, St Sampson, Guernsey
- b.13 Feb 1844 in Rue des Monts, Piette, Saint Peter Port, Guernsey d.06 Feb 1883 in County Hospital, Catel, Guernsey
- b.06 Mar 1815 in Guernsey d.22 Dec 1901
- b.30 Sep 1867 in Piette, Saint Peter Port, Island of Guernsey d.26 Aug 1937 in Queenslander Creek, Charters Towers, Qld
- b.30 Jul 1843 in Paragon Street, Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire, England d.24 Sep 1874 in Eglwysilan near Caerphilly area of Glamorgan, South Wales
- b.1821 in Hull, Yorkshire, England d.Sep 1895 in Bedwas, South Wales
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Details of Peter's family with Mary Ann James
Details of Peter's family with Anne Eva Cracknell
Details of Peter's family with Janet Elizabeth McAllister
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