The D'Arcy Archive
1870–1904

Martha Blum

written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

5 of the 13 relationships shown here are written in a record this archive has read; the other 8 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →

The record

Born 25 JUL 1870 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Died 19 DEC 1904 Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Buried Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland (Port. GP5, Sect. 42A, Grave 78)

registered The died date above is confirmed by the Queensland civil register — registration 1904/C/1454, naming her parents as John Blum and Mary Ann O'Brien. Sources →

direct line

Counted here with the Blum family · that family →

Family

Parents

John Blum · Mary Ann O'Brien

Married

Arthur William Hartley Sneyd · 20 JAN 1891 at Muttaburra, Queensland

Brothers and sisters

Ann Elizabeth Blum (1868–1951) · John Blum (1872–1898) · Mary Ann Blum (d. 1875)

Children

Ivy Miriam Sneyd (1891–1979) · Arthur Hartley Sneyd (1893–1916) · Vivian Claude Sneyd (1895–1949) · Kenneth Seigfried Sneyd (1898–1935) · Amy Nesta Sneyd (1900–1941) · Beryl Marie Sneyd (1904–1905) · Julia Hetty Sneyd (b. 1892)

Where this comes from

5 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. Qld death reg. 1949/B/20695; Qld death reg. 1935/B/26753; Qld death reg. 1905/C/3798; Qld death reg. 1904/C/1454.

Every entry naming Martha Blum in the register →

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Everywhere Martha appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes about Martha Blum, gathered automatically — 4 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.

Open Questions

…is held with the dealings. His land → newly opened · 10 Sep 2026 Do Miriam Wakefield and Martha Blum share a grave? The tree gives both women the identical plot — Lutwyche Cemetery, Portion GP5, Section 42A, Grave 78 . Martha died…

Brisbane

…wong Cemetery Arthur William Hartley Sneyd 1922 Toowong, Portion 4, Section 35, Grave 3–4 Martha Blum 1904 Lutwyche, Portion GP5, Section 42A, Grave 78 — with her mother-in-law Miriam Wakefield Ivy Miriam Sneyd 1979 Mt Thompson Mem…

The Sneyds

…nsland interior. Muttaburra, 1891 Arthur William Hartley Sneyd (b. Brisbane 1866) married Martha Blum (b. Rockhampton 1870) at Muttaburra on 20 January 1891 — six hundred kilometres inland, in the central-west sheep country. Boulia…

The Women

…l Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane 6 Ida Kathleen Atkinson 1869–1937 Brisbane South Brisbane 4 Martha Blum 1870–1904 Rockhampton Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane 7 Ivy Miriam Sneyd 1891–1979 Boulia — the remotest birthplace in the archive Mt…

Written about here

Pages of this archive where Martha is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.

What is written about Martha

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

interred -- Lutwyche Cemetery, Por GP5, Sect 42A, #78 [20-12-04] Also interred in the same grave is, her mother-in-law, Miriam WAKEFIELD

Sources attached in the tree

  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-3002046_OYYV7CYD23VJJSN63EXHW7CDRVKQZIY_OYYV7CYD23VJJSN63EXHW7CDRVKQZIY/martha-sneyd-born-blum

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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