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."

Birth Notes

Qld Birth Cert no. 1892/C007450
Born: 1892 at Hacket Terrace, Charters Towers Qld

Death Notes

Died: 01-August-1946 at Charters Towers Qld

Charters Towers Cemetery Burial register states that Janet Elizabeth McGREGOR died on the 01-Aug-1946, aged 50, and was buried on the 02-Aug-1946. Janet was buried her eldest son James (Jimmy) Henry Oshyer.

Her father's name was recorded as William McALLISTER while her mother's name was recorded as Isabella Cairns McALLISTER (nee Bell).

Birth Notes

Born: 1911 at Charters Towers, Queensland

Qld Birth Cert No. 1912/C7092 states that the birth was registered in Queensland, in 1912, of James Henry McALLISTER (later to be known as Oshyer). His mother's name was listed as Janet Elizabeth McALLISTER but his father's name was not listed at this time.

Death Notes

Jimmy eventually died from Epilepsy resulting in a fractured skull on the 26th March 1945.
Burried in the Charters Towers Cemetery, beside his mother Janet McGregor nee McAllister.
Qld Death Cert No. 1945/C695 states that James Henry OSHYER died in Queensland in 1945. His father's name was Peter John Thomas OSHYER and his mother's name was Janet McALLISTER.

Death Notes

Born: 1913 at Charters Towers, Queensland
Died in Charters Towers Q.

Birth Notes

Born: 1915 at Charters Towers, Queensland

Death Notes

Death Notes

Born: 1917 at Charters Towers, Queensland

Birth Notes

Russell William Peter ("Bill") was born on the 28th April 1919 at South Street, Charters Towers. "Bill" grew up in Charters Towers and married Kathleen Nance O'Neill on the 1st August 1942. They had 4 children Nonee Lorraine, Marilynn Nance, Merle Charisse and William Bernard. Kathleen passed away in 1954 of a ruptured aorta. - Info provided by Nonee Burton

Death Notes

Bill was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma in the mid 1990's and developed Pneumonia in October 1995, which lead to his death at the Charters Towers Hospital on the 20th October 1995 at the age of 76. - Info provided by Nonee Burton.

Birth Notes

Born: 23 Mar 1922 at South Street, Charters Towers, Queensland

Death Notes

Died: 1999 at Townsville, Queensland, Australia