The D'Arcy Archive
1840–1909

Miriam Wakefield

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

6 of the 17 relationships shown here are 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 11 APR 1840 St Paul, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Died 12 AUG 1909 Brisbane, Queensland
Buried Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland (Port. GP5, Sect. 42A, Grave 78)

registered The died date above is confirmed by the Queensland civil register — registration 1909/C/1054, naming her parents as James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger. Sources →

direct line

Counted here with the Wakefield family · that family →

Family

Parents

James Wakefield · Hannah SANIGER

Married

Joseph Samuel1 Sneyd

William Hartley Sneyd · 15 NOV 1859 at Queensland, Australia

Brothers and sisters

Eliza Wakefield (b. 1832) · Ellen Wakefield (b. 1834) · Martha Wakefield (1836–1899) · Hiram Wakefield (1837–1905) · Aaron Wakefield (1840–1896) · Jabez Wakefield (1843–1903) · Zillah Wakefield (1846–1900)

Children

Thomas George Sneyd (1859–1927) · Louisa Miriam Sneyd (1861–1927) · Catherine Isabel Sneyd (1864–1947) · Arthur William Hartley Sneyd (1866–1922) · Ernest Ephraim Sneyd (1869–1946) · Ada Zillah Sneyd (1872–1921)

Where this comes from

7 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. her sworn deposition, DR103140; Qld death reg. 1909/C/1054; Qld death reg. 1927/B/2729; Qld death reg. 1922/B/37152; Qld death reg. 1946/B/8931; NAA B2455 8088453, next of kin.

Every entry naming Miriam Wakefield in the register →

See this generation on the spine →

Everywhere Miriam appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes about Miriam Wakefield, gathered automatically — 14 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.

Twelve generations, and two claims too far.

…w how, when, or on what. The passenger register gives all three — and a fourteen-year-old Miriam Wakefield shipped as a domestic servant. The families they married Sneyd, Atkinson, Murdoch, Atwell, Blum, Keeling, Creech, Matson, Wakefie…

Berkeley, Gloucestershire

…line in a Queensland death register The whole Saniger claim hangs on a single fact: 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 a…

Drivers Fields, 1841

…archive says about Gloucestershire hangs on one line in a Queensland death register: 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…

What changed

…39 Gloucestershire records spanning 1790–1900, no Saniger ever marries a Wakefield. Found Miriam Wakefield's birth registration in FreeBMD: June quarter 1840, Bristol, volume 11, page 183 — the only one in England in five years. Control…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…November 1859, aged nineteen — Queensland marriage registration 1859/B/255. It said Said Miriam Wakefield “married at twenty-one”. It is She married William Hartley Sneyd at Brisbane on 15 November 1859, aged nineteen — Queensland marr…

Open Questions

…ld settle it , and it 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…

Errands

…king what to do. The queue, in order of what would change most 01 GRO birth certificate — Miriam Wakefield, Jun quarter 1840, Bristol, vol 11 page 183 THE CHEAPEST DECISIVE DOCUMENT ON THIS SITE General Register Office, gro.gov.uk (an a…

How Far Back

…r , born at Berkeley, Gloucestershire , 12 October 1679 — reached through Hannah Saniger, Miriam Wakefield's mother, on the Bristol side. Edward Cotton , born at Ashton-under-Hill, Gloucestershire, 6 January 1687. Lydia Lyon , born at M…

What Has Been Read

…here. → Queensland historical BDM index — marriages found something 13 Sep 2026 Searched: Miriam Wakefield's marriage, and her siblings' Miriam Wakefield married WILLIAM HARTLEY SNEYD on 15 November 1859 at Brisbane, registration 1859/B…

Brisbane

…–4 Martha Blum 1904 Lutwyche, Portion GP5, Section 42A, Grave 78 — with her mother-in-law Miriam Wakefield Ivy Miriam Sneyd 1979 Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens, Holland Park Kenneth Lindsay D'Arcy 2010 Centenary Memorial Gardens, Sumner A…

The Sanigers, reconstituted

…re family. Its only link to that family is one line in a Queensland death register naming Miriam Wakefield 's mother as Hannah Saniger . Searching for Hannah by name had failed. Repeatedly → So instead of searching for her, the county w…

The Inquest, 1902

…lop was the Undertaker, he was a Contractor, he was married at Brisbane when 22 years, to Miriam Wakefield. Thomas George 41, Louisa Miriam 39, Catherine Isabel 37, Arthur William Hartley 35, Ernest Ephraim 33, Ada Zillah 30 — and the w…

The Sneyds

…of his sixty-fifth birthday, and was buried at Lutwyche Cemetery, Kedron , where his wife Miriam Wakefield and his daughter-in-law Martha Blum lie too. This archive briefly published 1838 and was wrong → What replaced it The real line,…

The Women

…t. And yet the single most valuable document in this archive is a woman's testimony. When Miriam Wakefield stood up in the Brisbane Police Court in September 1902 and said " his father's name was Samuel Sneyd, Gaol Governor, his mother'…

Written about here

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

Sources attached in the tree

  • Travers Web Site — Miriam Sneyd (born Wakefield)

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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