The D'Arcy Archive
1812–1858

Catherine Margaret Mulcahy

Housemaid

Catherine Margaret Mulcahy 1812–1858 direct line · generation 7
married Samuel Charles Sneyd 1810–1885 tree · direct line
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

1 of the 12 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read; the other 11 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →

The record

Born 1812 Cork, Cork City, Cork, Ireland
Died 25 JUL 1858 Adelaide St, North Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Buried Paddington Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Trade Housemaid

direct line · generation 7 counting back from the present day

Family

Parents

Thomas Mulcahy · Ellen Regan

Married

Samuel Charles Sneyd · 13 FEB 1837 at Camden, New South Wales, Australia

William Foote

Children

William Hartley Sneyd (1838–1902) · James Goulbourn Sneyd (1840–1925) · John Braidwood Sneyd (1842–1908) · Ellen Mary Sneyd (1844–1893) · Joseph Samuel2 Sneyd (1846–1905) · Emma Martha Sneyd (1847–1922) · Samuel Hartley Hanley Stafford Sneyd (1851–1901) · Elizabeth Margaret Sneyd (1853–1908) · Arthur Oliver Sneyd (1855–1896)

Where this comes from

1 of the relationships drawn above is written in a record this archive has read. Qld death reg. 1902/B/2776.

Every entry naming Catherine Margaret Mulcahy in the register →

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Everywhere Catherine appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes about Catherine Margaret Mulcahy, gathered automatically — 6 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.

Errands

…which the site states as fact and has never seen. Then Richard Atkinson of Limerick, and Catherine Margaret Mulcahy of Cork, whose parents are unknown. Context → blocked by Cloudflare, 13 September 2026 04 PROB 11/1991/312 — the will of John Mad…

How Far Back

…April 1811. Came to New South Wales in 1832 with the 4th (King's Own) Regiment ; married Catherine Margaret Mulcahy at Camden, 13 February 1837. As a sergeant he and Private Richard Smith shot and shot a bushranger dead near the Vale of Clwydd o…

Sergeant Sneyd

…out six years earlier. The other soldier in this family → On 13 February 1837 he married Catherine Margaret Mulcahy at Camden . Their first child, William Hartley Sneyd — this archive's direct ancestor — was born at Kempsey the following year. T…

The Inquest, 1902

…his mother as Catherine — Samuel Charles Sneyd, Governor of Brisbane Gaol from 1859, and Catherine Margaret Mulcahy, whom he married at Camden in 1837. The link is no longer an inference. He was born on 30 September 1837 — and this archive got t…

Timeline

…er been read → 1832 Samuel Charles Sneyd arrives with the 4th (King's Own) → 1837 Marries Catherine Margaret Mulcahy at Camden, 13 February → 1839 The Chubb capture — a sergeant of the Mounted Police → 1849 Major George Pitt D'Arcy dies at Parram…

The Women

…ut of To Children Jean Ward 1754–1823 South Leith, Midlothian — Scotland Chatham, Kent 10 Catherine Margaret Mulcahy 1812–1858 Cork Adelaide Street, North Brisbane 9 Jane Creech 1830–1885 Limerick 1 North Quay, Brisbane 9 Eliza Keeling 1837–1918…

What is written about Catherine

Carried across from the family tree, with its markup stripped. Family testimony, not an independent record — valuable, and labelled.

* '''Residence''': St Mary Islington West, Middlesex, England - 1841
Mention in this document that Catherine was buried at Paddington Cemetery. Also mentions the problem that occurred during the funeral:http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Christ-Church-Anglican-memorial-reserve-Milton-Brisbane/THEPADDINGTONCEMETERY.htm

Sources attached in the tree

  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1500313_OYYV7U53YSNTGKXJNRKIM3DMRNP542I_OYYV7U53YSNTGKXJNRKIM3DMRNP542I/catherine-margaret-sneyd-born-mulcahy
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1500593_OYYV7U53YSNTGKXJNRKIM3DMRNP542I_OYYV7U53YSNTGKXJNRKIM3DMRNP542I/margaret-sneyd-born-hyland
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1500021_OYYV7SDH3GHANEJZNC67GWMRRTQ7Q4I_OYYV7SDH3GHANEJZNC67GWMRRTQ7Q4I/catherine-margaret-sneyd-born-mulcahy

These are the citations the family tree carries. Where this archive has checked one against the original, it says so on the relevant page. Method →

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