Hi Cathy,
Are you still working on FH
I was never able to find an Elizabeth Oxley but I found
1836 Marriage: 14 Mar 1836 St Chad, Rochdale, Lancashire, England
James Warhurst - Black Smith of Saddleworth
Elizabeth Hobson - (X), Spinster of Saddleworth
Witness: William Buckley; John Harrison
Married by Banns by: W. J. Hobson Curate
Register: Marriages 1836, Page 41, Entry 123
Source: LDS Film 1484380
1837 William 8 Sep 1837 chr 22 Oct 1837 Saddleworth Yorkshire James and Elizabeth Warhurst
1841 Rochdale James Warhurst b. 1811, Elizabeth b. 1816, Joseph b.1840, Wm b. 1838
1857 James 40, Joseph 17, William 20 (blacksmiths) emigrated 1857 on the 'Excelsior' from Liverpool James wife is supposedly Elizabeth Oxley If James arrived in 1857 with his son Joseph and no wife did she died before they left England or is still in England he may have gone for a holiday