William Hartley Sneyd
Fount-room Overseer, Queensland Government Printing Office — a contractor later
6 of the 21 relationships shown here are written in a record this archive has read; the other 15 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →
The record
| Born | 30 September 1837 | Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 11 SEP 1902 | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Buried | — | Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Port. GP5, Sect. 42A, Grave 77) |
| Trade | Fount-room Overseer, Queensland Government Printing Office — a contractor later |
registered The died date above is confirmed by the Queensland civil register — registration 1902/B/2776, and it gives his date of birth as 30 September 1837. Sources →
- born: 30 September 1837 — the tree says 1838. His Queensland death registration 1902/B/2776 records the date of birth outright, and this archive briefly published 1838 against it and was wrong. Set out in full →
- occupation: Fount-room Overseer, Queensland Government Printing Office — a contractor later — the tree records no trade at all. The Blue Books have him in the Government Printing Office on £225, in the public service from 1 February 1862 and last listed in 1890. Set out in full →
direct line
Counted here with the Sneyd family · that family →
Family
Parents
Samuel Charles Sneyd · Catherine Margaret Mulcahy
Married
Miriam Wakefield · 15 NOV 1859 at Queensland, Australia
Brothers and sisters
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) · Robert Mcdowell Sneyd (1862–1937) · Hugh Herbert Hanley Sneyd (1869–1935) · Edith Blanche Sneyd · Annie Ada Sneyd
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
6 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. Qld death reg. 1902/B/2776; her sworn deposition, DR103140; Qld death reg. 1927/B/2729; Qld death reg. 1922/B/37152; Qld death reg. 1946/B/8931.
Everywhere William appears in this archive
Every page of this site that writes about William Hartley Sneyd, gathered automatically — 15 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.
…at all. documented And the marriage this whole archive turns on. Miriam Wakefield married William Hartley Sneyd at Brisbane on 15 November 1859 , registration 1859/B/255 . She was nineteen — this site had said twenty-one. Corrected → Her bro…
…ration, naming HIS father Richard Wakefield: a new generation. Found Miriam's marriage to William Hartley Sneyd, 15 November 1859, and corrected her age from twenty-one to nineteen. Added 14 records and 9 recorded relationships to the regist…
…ng is how an archive overcorrects. Where it was corrected → 13 September 2026 She married William Hartley Sneyd at Brisbane on 15 November 1859, aged nineteen — Queensland marriage registration 1859/B/255. It said Said Miriam Wakefield “marr…
…found in its place; and the 1902 coronial file confirms the Australian join under oath — William Hartley Sneyd's widow names his father as "Samuel Sneyd, Gaol Governor". His birth is now documented outright: the Queensland death registratio…
…tate Archives, Runcorn · copy fees, none digitised Arthur Hartley Sneyd's 1916 intestacy; William Hartley Sneyd's 1873 insolvency — a wholly new fact; four wills, one of which may be the gaol governor's; two police staff files that are proba…
…Governor of Brisbane Gaol from 1859. Died at Enoggera, 4 July 1885; buried Toowong. 1837 William Hartley Sneyd · Kempsey, New South Wales The emigrant generation's first Australian-born child, and Ivy Miriam Sneyd's grandfather. The Sneyds…
…504 (DR103140), an inquest nobody in the family knew existed. Also the 1873 insolvency of William Hartley Sneyd, Arthur's 1916 intestacy, four wills, two police staff files and nine land dealings. → Queensland historical BDM index found some…
…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. The army record Private 1463, 80th Foot, Mounted Polic…
…than with her parents, with an occupation against her name. Five years later she married William Hartley Sneyd at Brisbane. The women → And one thing it pointedly does not give. Hannah's county is a ditto mark under her husband's Gloucester…
…736504 , digital representation DR103140 : the 1902 magisterial inquiry into the death of William Hartley Sneyd . Eighteen images, no text layer, read and transcribed in full from the originals on 9 September 2026. It supplies four sworn dep…
Queensland State Archives · downloaded and read 9 September 2026 The Inquest, 1902 William Hartley Sneyd was found dead in Victoria Park, Brisbane, on 12 September 1902. The coronial file has been read in full, and it is published her…
…next of kin, "FATHER, THOMAS GEORGE SNEYD, Landsborough, Queensland" . Thomas George was William Hartley Sneyd's eldest son — so this man is first cousin to Arthur and Vivian. documented Service number 3891 Unit 9th reinforcements, 31st Bat…
…nd ended as Governor of Brisbane Gaol . His story → The Australian generations are solid. William Hartley Sneyd was born at Kempsey, New South Wales, on 30 September 1837 — his Queensland death registration ( 1902/B/2776 ) records the date o…
…and separates from New South Wales. Samuel Sneyd becomes Governor of Brisbane Gaol → 1862 William Hartley Sneyd enters the public service, 1 February — the Government Printing Office → 1864 Paul Cole Atkinson installs the first organ at All…
…840–1909 Born in Bristol on 11 April 1840 and registered there that June quarter; married William Hartley Sneyd at Brisbane on 15 November 1859, aged nineteen. Sixty-two years later she stood in the Brisbane Police Court and gave the single…
Written about here
Pages of this archive where William is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.
Sources attached in the tree
- Travers Web Site — William Hartley Sneyd
- FamilySearch Family Tree — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-1096152464/william-hartley-sneyd-in-familysearch-family-tree
- Backhouse Web Site — William Hartley 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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