Elizabeth Pratley (maiden name Osman, baptised Ann Elizabeth) sentenced to seven days in prison, was born in 1844 in Burford. Her parents were William and Maria (maiden name Faulkner) Osman were married in Witney in 1841. Both had been born in Burford, William in 1822 and Maria in 1824.
Elizabeth had one brother George and four sisters, Mary Anne, Emily, Ellen and Fanny Maria.
Elizabeth married Eli Pratley (the brother of fellow Martyr Mary Pratley’s husband Frederick) in Burford in 1869. He had been born in Ascott in 1846 and was an agricultural labourer. They had three children, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Eli William. Shortly after Elizabeth’s release from prison, the family emigrated to Canada on the S.S.Nyanza, where sadly she died the same year probably of typhus.
Eli returned to Ascott and later married Jane Malins there in 1874. They emigrated to New Zealand on the Crusader later that year with Eli and Elizabeth’s daughter Ellen, accompanied by his brother Frederick and his family.
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