The trees
Every family this archive follows, and the two grafts that carry almost all of its claimed depth.
A tree with invented joins in it is worse than no tree, so none of these has any. Each line is drawn in the form its own evidence supports. This archive's difficulty is unusual: almost all of its claimed depth rests on two grafts, and one of them is disproved.
Our line, drawnThe line this archive is about, as a chart — every generation it can name, and every place it stops.Open the chart →The name the archive carries, and one thread of thirteen. An officer of the 39th Regiment was ordered to New South Wales: a child was born at Chatham in 1825 and the next at Parramatta in 1827, and those two birthplaces are the only proof of the crossing there is.
The spine, generation by generation →The family tree runs this line back through a Major-General, a man said to have been born in St James's Palace, the Earls of Holderness, and finally Hornby Castle in the 1560s. Six of the fifteen generations stand up. The rest hang on one link.
A legitimate male descent from the 4th Earl is excluded by the peerage record, so the claim reduces to an illegitimate son nobody has found. 71 people reach this archive only through it.
Where it stops being evidence →Followed into the right registers, and found to be wrong. Not unproven — disproved.
Kept on the site, because a disproved claim published is worth more than a disproved claim deleted. Remove both grafts and 145 people remain, reaching the middle of the eighteenth century.
How both grafts were tested →Hannah Saniger's people, out of Berkeley and Chew Magna. This is the deepest thing the archive holds that does not depend on a graft.
No chart has been drawn. The line is argued in prose across four pages instead.
The Saniger line →Ivy Miriam Sneyd's people, of Boulia and Brisbane, and a weaver at Hanley above them. Samuel Charles Sneyd was a soldier, a constable and a gaol governor in one life.
No chart of this family has been drawn — only pages about them.
The Sneyds →Miriam Wakefield sailed on the General Hewitt in 1854 and gave sworn evidence at an inquest in 1902 — one of the few women in this archive who speaks in her own words.
No chart of this family has been drawn.
The Wakefields →The form is checked, not asserted: a line counts as drawn only where this archive actually publishes a chart of it. Five rows across the seven archives claimed to be drawn on the strength of a page title alone, and were demoted when the check went in.