Henry Miller Oakley
active 1891 · Oakley line
Names
- Baptismal name
- Henry Miller
- Given
- Henry Miller
- Surname
- Oakley
The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.
Stories
- subject The Prince Albert gold rush
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- Nothing dated is recorded about them at all, they are here because another record names them.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-068] Thomas Bain's son-in-law - married Frances Geddes Bain - and inspector at the Millwood goldfield. Sent to investigate Prince Albert in June 1891; Justice of the Peace at the diggings, handling claims and disputes.
These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.