James Wakefield

died 08/07/1857 · father: Richard Wakefield — a generation the archive did not have

recordQueensland death index 1857/B/135 · the source ↗

aged 35 · mason journeyman · born in Gloucestershire

record1841 census, HO107/374, ED 13 p.10, Drivers Fields, St Paul, Bristol · the source ↗

aged 48 · MASON · county Gloucester · arrived Brisbane 16 Dec 1854 on the General Hewitt

recordQSA S13086/ITM18474, passenger register, image DR38490 · the source ↗

head, aged 45, MASON · born at STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

record1851 census, Drivers Fields, St Paul, Bristol — HO107/1949 f.478 p.14 sch.66 (FindMyPast) · the source ↗

baptised at STROUD 6 APRIL 1806 · father RICHARD WAKEFIELD, mother ELIZABETH WEBB — matching the birthplace the 1851 census gives him, and naming a generation this archive did not have

recordEngland Births & Baptisms 1538-1975, Stroud (FindMyPast) · the source ↗

…Hartley Sneyd 1838–1902 Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia Before Gloucestershire, 1799 James Wakefield 1799–1857 Gloucestershire, England 5 more generations Hannah SANIGER 1805–1873 Berkley, Gloucester, England Miriam Wakefield 1840…

…: 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 archive has no connection to Gloucestershire whatever. So the obvious thing is to f…

…: 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 couple in England. On 13 September 2026 somebody looked in the census. They are a…

…rd · Portsea St Mary, 21 June 1779 Hampshire Marriages WARD — confirmed Hannah Saniger m. James Wakefield · Bristol, 17 October 1831 England Marriages 1538-1973 WAKEFIELD — confirmed Thomas Saniger m. Catherine Cotton · Berkeley, 10 Ap…

…h's birthplace outright: BERKELEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Found the marriage: Hannah Saniger to James Wakefield, Bristol, 17 October 1831. The first English record of it, and the first English record of any kind to give her the surname. Lear…

…ristol, kept the same trade for thirty years, and took six of his children to Queensland. James Wakefield has appeared on five pages of this archive and had none of his own. Until this morning he was a name, a trade and a county. He no…

…s the thread running through the whole surname. William Saniger is a journeyman smith and James Wakefield a journeyman mason. And Chew Magna, says Collinson, had been “a large clothing town” — the same trade that runs through every San…

…n. No Martha Wakefield dies in Queensland at all, 1855–1960, and no Wakefield death names James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger as a Martha's parents — though the index carries Ephraim 1868, Aaron 1896, Zillah 1900, Hiram 1905 and Miriam…

…From a FamilySearch-derived index rather than the parish book, and there is more than one James Wakefield in Gloucestershire. father of James, baptised Stroud 6 April 1806 inferred Elizabeth Webb And a Matilda WEBB, aged two, is living…

…annah. Nothing here connects the Saniger landholders of Berkeley to the woman who married James Wakefield and went to Queensland. That join remains where it was: in a Bristol chapel register, or in Berkeley's own book after 1677.

…mber 1854 the General Hewitt put into Brisbane with 394 souls aboard, and among them were James Wakefield , his wife Hannah, and six of their children — including Miriam , then fourteen. This was found the long way round. Queensland St…

…eensland at all, 1855–1960 And no Wakefield death anywhere in the index gives the parents James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger for a Martha. So both sides of the old argument were wrong. Martha Hurford was real. She was not this family's…

…y ordering twelve RG 4 volumes. The target: Hannah Saniger, born about 1805–1815, married James Wakefield, and had her first children baptised — somewhere — in Bristol. This page is wrong, and it is kept here for that reason. Everythin…

…in her daughter Elizabeth's baptism, 19 May 1782. → ELIZABETH WEBB , of Stroud Mother of James Wakefield, baptised 6 April 1806 — and a Matilda WEBB, aged two, was living in his house at Drivers Fields in 1841. → MARTHA GOLDING Marrie…

…clesiastical parish St Barnabas The household, complete Name Relation Age Occupation Born James Wakefield Head 45 Mason Stroud, Gloucestershire, England Hannah Wakefield Wife 45 — BERKELEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND Hiram Wakefield Son…

…rd dying on exactly that date — and names her parents as JOHN Wakefield and a HUGHES, not James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger. So she was real, she was not this family's, and none of that required leaving the desk. how I searched the co…