Jeffrey Wayne OATES is a fourth generation Australian, descendant of Martin Oates
 who, at age 9 years, migrated to Victoria, Australia from Cornwall England in
 1858 with his mother Elizabeth and two brothers on board the clipper, Champion
 of the Seas.  Martin Oates' father was Thomas Oates a miner, in St Agnes Cornwall.

Martin Oates married Agnes Mathilda Rohlk in 1876 and when Martin died
in 1902, his wife and family moved to Perth Western Australia.
One of Martin's sons was Otto Astmas Oates, who married
 Ellen Rose Salenburger in 1913 and their son Herbert Otto Oates,
 was the father of Jeffrey.

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