The D'Arcy Archive
1863–1938

Samuel Charles Sneyd

Samuel Charles Sneyd 1863–1938 in the tree
1 brother or sister
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

None of the 2 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read. Every one comes from the family tree. That is not a claim that they are wrong — it is a statement about what has been checked, and on this site the difference is the point. How claims are labelled →

The record

Born 1863 Queensland, Australia.
Died 1938 New South Wales

Counted here with the Sneyd family · that family →

Family

Parents

James Goulbourn Sneyd

Brothers and sisters

Lionel Sneyd (b. 1879)

Where this comes from

No relationship on this page has been checked against a record. Everything here is what the family tree says, which is a claim and not a source. How claims are labelled →

Every entry naming Samuel Charles Sneyd in the register →

Others of the same name

This family reuses forenames relentlessly. These are different people, kept apart on purpose rather than merged into one. Why →

Everywhere Samuel appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes about Samuel Charles Sneyd, gathered automatically — 12 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.

What changed

…r husband's. Searched Hanley — the parish the tree names and nobody had tried — and found Samuel Charles Sneyd's baptism with both parents. Followed up the Madeley marriage of William Sneyd and Mary Blackbourne, which had been in the result…

How they got here

…three are, and the pattern they make is worth looking at directly. 1832 · With a regiment Samuel Charles Sneyd Arrived in New South Wales with the 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot, doing convict-guard duty — the same work that had brought…

Gallery

…his height, his complexion, his eye colour and his religion — everything except a face. → Samuel Charles Sneyd Soldier of the 4th, sergeant of the NSW Mounted Police, chief constable at Moreton Bay, Governor of Brisbane Gaol. Four careers,…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…umented: William Sneyd, weaver, married Mary Blackbourne at Madeley on 27 March 1769; and Samuel Charles Sneyd was baptised at Hanley on 28 April 1811, his father Samuel and mother Elizabeth, exactly as the tree says. It said Said the Engli…

Open Questions

…d, and genuinely empty The 4th Earl of Holderness's will is not in the Prerogative Court. Samuel Charles Sneyd is in no Blue Book from 1870. There is no English baptism for Robert D'Arcy. The London Gazette does not name Vivian Sneyd's Mili…

How Far Back

…e, 22 October 1809. Died at No. 3 Well Street, Hanley, and was buried there in 1855. 1810 Samuel Charles Sneyd · 1810–1885 Born Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent; christened there 28 April 1811. Came to New South Wales in 1832 with the 4th (King's Own…

What Has Been Read

…ngelist, Staffordshire found something 13 Sep 2026 Searched: The parish the tree names as Samuel Charles Sneyd's birthplace, never searched before today FOUND. Samuel Sneyd, born 13 March 1811, baptised 28 April 1811 — father Samuel, mother…

Sergeant Sneyd

Samuel Charles Sneyd, 1810–1885 Sergeant Sneyd A Hanley grocer's son who took the King's shilling, sailed for New South Wales in 1832, shot a bushrang…

The Inquest, 1902

…the join is confirmed from inside the family, with the gaol governorship attached to it. Samuel Charles Sneyd → Third deposition Edward Law, retired, of Hartley Street off Gregory Terrace I know the deceased William Hartley Sneyd for many…

The Sneyds

…ngs to his eldest brother William. The family → documented, and the tree's year corrected Samuel Charles Sneyd, born Hanley 1810, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Found. Hanley, St John the Evangelist — born 13 March 1811, baptised 28 April 1811…

Timeline

…D'Arcy dies at Chatham, 13 May. His will is proved 4 July and has never 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 s…

The Sneyds of the Potteries

…ee makes when it has a marriage date and guesses the child from it. And 1781 fits better. Samuel Charles Sneyd was born at Hanley in March 1811 to a father Samuel. A Samuel baptised in 1781 is thirty when that child arrives; one born in 176…

Sources attached in the tree

  • Buhmann Web Site — Samuel Charles Sneyd

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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