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.

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