James Wakefield
6 of the 9 relationships shown here are written in a record this archive has read; the other 3 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →
The record
| Born | 1799 | Gloucestershire, England |
| Died | 8 JUL 1857 | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
direct line
Counted here with the Wakefield family · that family →
Family
Married
Hannah SANIGER · 17 OCT 1831 at Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Children
Eliza Wakefield (b. 1832) · Ellen Wakefield (b. 1834) · Martha Wakefield (1836–1899) · Hiram Wakefield (1837–1905) · Aaron Wakefield (1840–1896) · Miriam Wakefield (1840–1909) · Jabez Wakefield (1843–1903) · Zillah Wakefield (1846–1900)
Where this comes from
6 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. Qld death reg. 1909/C/1054; Qld death reg. 1905/B/5782; Qld death reg. 1896/C/3402; Qld death reg. 1903/C/5058; Qld death reg. 1900/C/3322; named together on five children's death registrations.
Everywhere James appears in this archive
Every page of this site that writes about James Wakefield, gathered automatically — 7 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.
…: when Miriam Wakefield died in Brisbane in 1909, the registrar wrote her parents down as James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger . Remove that line and the archive has no connection to Gloucestershire whatever. So the obvious thing is to f…
…: when Miriam Wakefield died in Brisbane in 1909, the registrar wrote her parents down as James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger . Nobody had ever found that couple in England. On 13 September 2026 somebody looked in the census. They are a…
…stration, naming her father John Saniger — entered by the clerk as “John Jenniger”. Found James Wakefield's registration, naming HIS father Richard Wakefield: a new generation. Found Miriam's marriage to William Hartley Sneyd, 15 Novem…
…, with the register scan. The ship GENERAL HEWITT, Brisbane, 16 December 1854, 394 souls. James Wakefield 48, a MASON — matching the 1841 census's “Mason Journeyman” — with Hannah 48, Jabez 11, Zillah 8 and Ephraim 5; Hiram 16 a plumbe…
…annah. Nothing here connects the Saniger landholders of Berkeley to the woman who married James Wakefield and went to Queensland. That join remains where it was: in a Bristol chapel register, or in Berkeley's own book after 1677.
…mber 1854 the General Hewitt put into Brisbane with 394 souls aboard, and among them were James Wakefield , his wife Hannah, and six of their children — including Miriam , then fourteen. This was found the long way round. Queensland St…
…g's. Miriam Wakefield's are known only because the Queensland death register names them — James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger — and that single line is what carries the deepest documented branch in the whole archive back to a Gloucester…
Written about here
Pages of this archive where James is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.
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