Biography
James Edward Oldfield was born 18 March 1821 in Richmond, New South Wales, Australia to James Oldfield (c1781-1824) and Ann Freebody (1796-1882) and died 3 August 1873 Black Creek, New South Wales, Australia of unspecified causes. He married Margaret Hanning (1835-) 29 April 1852 in Tambaroora, New South Wales, Australia.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Rebecca Oldfield (1854-) | |||
| Louisa Augusta Oldfield (1857-1943) | 5 September 1857 Puttabucca, Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia | 30 June 1943 Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia | Thomas Edmund Tanner (1851-1915) |
| James Edward Oldfield (1860-1911) | |||
| Henry William Oldfield (1862-1913) | |||
| Charles M Oldfield (1864-) | |||
| Joseph F Oldfield (1867-1891) | |||
| Arthur John Oldfield (1870-1874) | |||
Death
(From the Murrurundi Times of Saturday.)
His Worship Dr. W. H. Wood held an inquiry at Yarraman, on Monday, touching the death of a man named Edward Oldfield, in the employ of Messrs. Hodges and Rowland, who had died on the previous day. About three weeks since the deceased met with an accident by cutting his foot with an adze. The wound was attended to, and appeared to have healed up, and the deceased resumed his occupation as a shepherd. The healing, however, seems to have but temporary, as the sore again broke out, and most excessive suppuration look place, which tended to weaken his already debilitated constitution so much that he eventually sank. When his illness assumed something serious, a messenger was sent to Murrurundi to his employers, and Mr. Rowland, without delay, humanely dispatched Dr. Wood to attend the man, but he died before he arrived. The medical gentleman attributes death to fatty degeneration of the heart and other chronic diseases accelerated by the effects of the wound referred to.
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