Oscar Edwin SHEARER
Surname: SHEARER
Christian Names: Oscar Edwin
Date & Place of Birth:
1888 Birkenhead, SA
Given Name(s): Oscar Edwin
Last Name: SCHERER
Birth Date: 1888, April 10
Gender: M
Father: Jacob SCHERER
Mother: Jane REVES
Birth Place/Residence: Birkenhead
District: Port Adelaide
Symbol:
Book/Page: 414/260
Service Number: 1889
Service Unit: 13th Reinforcements, 3rd Light Horse
Date & Place of Enlistment: 11/10/15 Adelaide
Profession prior to Enlistment: Mail Contractor
Embarkation: 12/1/16 per Borda
Date of Return to Aust. & Date of Discharge:
15/5/19 per Orari from Kantara, Egypt Disemb 26/6/19
Discharged 19/8/19
6/3/18 Admitted to hospital with Ptomaine poisoning disch 18/3/18 to rest camp.
24/7/18 Admitted to hospital with Malaria, Port Said
21/9/18 Rejoined Unit at Moascar, Egypt
Next of Kin (NOK) Details
Address: Kingscote, KI (mother)
Later changed to c/- Mrs Rasmussen, 46 John Street, Wayville
Service
Egypt: 1/3/16 Disembarked Heliopolis
Rank : Trooper
15/2/19 promoted to Lance Corporal
Kingscote Honour Board
Kingscote Monument
Penneshaw Honour Board
Penneshaw Memorial
KI CONNECTION:
Education Level – 6th Class Public School
Member Kingscote Rifle Club (5 years)
On return to Australia intended to become a farmer. Took an AIF course in Book Keeping at the end of the war (see doc on file).
Marriage index
Groom Given Name(s): Oscar Edward
Groom Last Name: SCHERER
Bride Given Name(s): Dorothy Jean
Bride Last Name: FRANKLIN
Marriage Date: 1929, June 22
Marriage Place: St Albans Church Kingscote KI
Groom Age: 36
Groom Approx. Birth Year: 1893
Groom Marital Status: S
Groom Father: Jacob SCHERER
Bride Age: 17
Bride Approx. Birth Year: 1912
Bride Marital Status: S
Bride Father Name: Allen FRANKLIN
District: Encounter Bay
Symbol: S
Book/Page: 319/886
Death index
Given Name(s): Oscar Edwin
Last Name: SCHERER
Death Date: 17 Oct 1971
Gender: M
Age: 83y
Approx. Birth Year: 1888
Marital Status: M
Relative 1: Dorothy Jean SCHERER [W]
Relative 2:
Residence: Clearview
Death Place: Clearview
District: Port Adelaide
Symbol:
Book/Page: 143A/7833
https://www.genealogysa.org.au/
Mother = Jane Charlotte Reeves, daughter of Augustus Reeves and Emily Calnan (nee Young).
See newspaper article about his community farewell: Island Volunteers. (1916, January 8). The Kangaroo Island Courier (Kingscote, SA : 1907 - 1951), p. 3. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18950621
Oscar was the grandson of Charlotte & Samuel Reeves of Reeves Point.
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8080782&S=1 plus 32 more documents
Family
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Descendants of :
Jacob SCHERER
Generation 1
1. Jacob SCHERER was born ABT 1850 in Hamburg, Germany and died 18 Jan 1892 in Port Adelaide, SA. He married Charlotte Jane REEVES 16 Feb 1882 in Adelaide, SA. She was born 27 Dec 1861 in Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA and died 31 Aug 1934 in Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA, daughter of Augustus REEVES and Eliza Jane YOUNG.
Children of Jacob SCHERER and Charlotte Jane REEVES:
i. Arthur Augustus SCHERER was born 30 Mar 1882 in Glanville, SA and died 01 Apr 1910 in Kangaroo Island, SA
ii. Florence Edith SCHERER was born 02 Nov 1885 in Birkenhead, SA and died 18 Mar 1981
iii. John SCHERER was born 26 Apr 1887 in Birkenhead, SA and died 26 Apr 1887 in Birkenhead, SA
iv. Oscar Edwin SCHERER was born 10 Apr 1888 in Birkenhead, SA and died 17 Oct 1971 in Clearview, SA
Children of Jacob SCHERER and Sarah Jane MASON:
v. Thomas Footit SCHERER was born 19 Jan 1879 in Alberton, SA
Generation 2
2. Oscar Edwin SCHERER was born 10 Apr 1888 in Birkenhead, SA and died 17 Oct 1971 in Clearview, SA. He married Dorothy Jean FRANKLIN 22 Jun 1929 in Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA. She was born 13 Oct 1912 in Plympton, SA, daughter of Allen Lewis (Alan) FRANKLIN and Nellie Edith BARBER.
Other events in the life of Oscar Edwin SCHERER
Occupation: 1930, Sailmaker, 1931 Baker
Electoral roll: BET 1939 & 1943, American River, Kangaroo Island
Children of Oscar Edwin SCHERER and Dorothy Jean FRANKLIN:
i. Norma Dorothy SCHERER
ii. Judith Marie SCHERER was born 20 Oct 1930 and died 28 Jan 1971 in Woodville, SA. She married Thomas Douglas Maxwell (Doug) WILLSON Jun 1954 in Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, SA. He was born 27 Dec 1930 and died 27 Dec 2017 in Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, SA, son of Thomas Owen Nicholas WILLSON and Evelyn Millicent BUICK.
iii. Edwin Arthur SCHERER
iv. John Lewis SCHERER
v. Jeanette SCHERER
Last updated : 1 June 2021