James Oatley (New South Wales politician)

He was born in Sydney, the second son of Staffordshire watchmaker and ex-convict James Oatley and his wife Mary.

His father had arrived in Sydney with a life sentence on the Marquis of Wellington in January 1815.

He was appointed to the Cooks River Road Trust in 1849, and was a member of the Australian Patriotic Association, and Officer of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

[2] Following the death of his first wife Eleanor, Oatley married Margaret Curtis on 29 September 1870 at St Peter's church, Cooks River, and they had one daughter.

[1] Oatley died at his Bourke Street home in Woolloomooloo on 31 December 1878(1878-12-31) (aged 61) and was buried at Camperdown Cemetery.