John Saniger
Of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.
DocumentedProved by 1 record. 5 records that name them have been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →
1 of the 4 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read; the other 3 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →
The record
| Born | 15 MAY 1769 | Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England |
| Died | 10 MAR 1824 | Berkeley, Gloucester, England |
direct line · generation 8 counting back from the present day
Family
Parents
Thomas Saniger · Catherine Cotton
Married
Lydia Jones · TO 1797 at Berkley, Gloucester, England
Children
Hannah SANIGER (1805–1873)
Where this comes from
1 of the relationships drawn above is written in a record this archive has read. Qld death reg. 1873/C/603 — entered “John Jenniger”.
What the records say
Every record this archive has read that names John Saniger. The name is unique in this tree, so these are his or hers. The whole register →
of Berkeley, YEOMAN · release of 2 November 1601 with John Smithe of Panthurste — the earliest Saniger this archive has found
recordGloucestershire Archives D2957/41 (catalogue description) · the source ↗
baptised at Berkeley 18 MAY 1769, father THO'S Saniger · the tree gives his birth as 15 May 1769
recordBerkeley St Mary the Virgin, after 1677 (FindMyPast — England Births & Baptisms / Marriages; National Burial Index, Gloucestershire FHS) · the source ↗
buried at Berkeley St Mary the Virgin, 16 JANUARY 1825, AGED 55 · the tree says 10 March 1824, ten months early
recordBerkeley St Mary the Virgin, after 1677 (FindMyPast — England Births & Baptisms / Marriages; National Burial Index, Gloucestershire FHS) · the source ↗
baptised at Berkeley 18 SEPTEMBER 1803, father JNO Saniger · Hannah's brother
recordBerkeley St Mary the Virgin, after 1677 (FindMyPast — England Births & Baptisms / Marriages; National Burial Index, Gloucestershire FHS) · the source ↗
THE SURNAME'S HOME PARISH LOOKS LIKE STONE, NOT BERKELEY · across six printed volumes of Gloucestershire marriage registers the name appears THIRTY-SIX TIMES, and TWENTY of them are at STONE, the parish adjoining Berkeley, in the 1670s to 1690s — Morice Saniger & Margarett Heskins, Samuell Sanigar & Mary Morgan, William Sanigar & Bridget Bayley, John Cole & Elizabeth Sanigar, Richard Jones & Mary Sanigar · the rest are at THORNBURY, CAM and DURSLEY · THIS IS SURNAME DISTRIBUTION AND NOT DESCENT: not one of the thirty-six is shown here to be a relative, and none is a John marrying a Lydia
recordPhillimore, Gloucestershire Parish Registers: Marriages, six volumes read in full text — Internet Archive gloucestershirep15phil and others · the source ↗
Everywhere John appears in this archive
Every page of this site that writes aboutJohn Saniger in prose, gathered automatically — 22 in total. This counts pages, not records: the lists and registers are skipped on purpose, so a person can be well documented and appear here once or not at all. How claims are labelled →
…70, living on her own means the tree says Hannah's mother was Lydia — and that her father John Saniger died in 1824 and here it gets interesting The street is the detail that settles it. The tree records Jabez Wakefield born on 14 F…
…arriage this archive searched for under eight spellings and recorded as not existing. And John Saniger, 1827, Ann, Rodborough standing beside John Sanigor, 1827, Ann, Rodborough — one wedding indexed under two forms, one of them the…
…The tree says he died about 1819. buried 24 Jan 1819 Berkeley St Mary the Virgin AGED 75 John Saniger Born about 1769. The tree says he died on 10 March 1824 — ten months out. buried 16 Jan 1825 Berkeley St Mary the Virgin AGED 55…
…and nothing else however the query was phrased. One vowel. And with it, the whole family John Saniger's children at Berkeley John Saniger's children, all baptised at Berkeley, all naming him as father: Ann Sanigar 1798 William Sani…
…four spellings, three of them in Berkeley hundred alone, at Halmore, Hinton and Saniger . John Saniger of Saniger appears in the Berkeley estate deeds from 1601. Before that the archive has deeds about land and almost nothing about…
…in the text is a bride or groom described as «of Berkeley» in somebody else's parish. No John Saniger marries any Lydia in any of the six, against a control of THIRTY-SIX SANIGAR MARRIAGES PRINTED ACROSS THE SERIES, so the surname…
…stion 3 and blocked. Open since 2026-09-13. · attempts are in this register → 3 Where did John Saniger and Lydia marry, about 1797? Blocked One marriage, and it names Lydia What is known Lydia is named by no record this archive has…
…xercise — the same reason [the work list](/worklist/) exists. 01 Answered The marriage of John Saniger and Lydia, Berkeley, about 1797 — ANSWERED, and they do not do lookups Gloucestershire Archives replied 14 September 2026. Andrew…
…on Hannah Saniger b. 23 Jul 1805 Berkeley Langford Family Site · FamilySearch Family Tree John Saniger b. 15 May 1769 Berkeley Guthrie Web Site · FamilySearch Family Tree Thomas Saniger b. 23 Aug 1744 christened Berkeley Saniger Web…
…hen a subsidy man.” The survey Eleven men, three spellings Name Trade Tithing Age Stature John Saniger labourer Halmore [Berkeley] A20 lower stature Richard Saniger fuller Wotton-under-Edge A40 lower stature John Saniger weaver Wood…
…, and Bristol Archives have now read this one and confirmed it: the entry that would put John Saniger's name beside his son's marriage does not exist and never did. What is still unseen is any document tying this Thomas to the one…
…same time. The family tree says Hannah was born at Berkeley on 23 July 1805, daughter of John Saniger who died there in 1824. The 1841 census says she was not born in Gloucestershire, and Berkeley is in Gloucestershire. Those two s…
…ndMyPast — Gloucestershire Wills & Administrations 1801-1858 does not cover it A will for John Saniger of Berkeley, or any Saniger of the direct line Two Saniger-variant entries in 14,195: Abraham Synegar, cardmaker of Dursley, admi…
…lse. named as father in a Berkeley baptism of 12 October 1679 documented Catherine Cotton John Saniger's mother. Searched across the whole county for a baptism and found none — she appears only to marry. married Thomas Saniger at Be…
…Thomas de Swonhungre granted land in WESTFELD in the early 14th century (BCM/A/1/65/18). John Saniger released three acres in WESTFIELD, Saniger, in 1601. Edward Saniger exchanged three-quarters of an acre in WESTFIELD in 1716. One…
…two parents This site says of Hannah Saniger's mother: “FamilySearch's shared tree gives John Saniger a wife LYDIA JONES, 1770–1851 … It is not sourced.” True as far as it goes. What the page does not say is how much detail sits be…
…e household in the county empty A father John with a wife Lydia the tree names her father John Saniger None. empty A Hannah baptised anywhere One , at Stinchcombe on 2 July 1730 — daughter of Benjamin and Sarah, seventy-five years t…
…on, now at Birmingham, and not yet read 1600–1649 3 1601 Tudor and Stuart Gloucestershire John Saniger of Berkeley, yeoman — the earliest dated document naming the surname 1608 Tudor and Stuart Gloucestershire Eleven men of the surn…
…bout whether your query can match the name. And Lydia is still nobody's wife on paper. No John Saniger marries at Berkeley between 1792 and 1804, though his children are baptised there from 1801. The woman the tree calls Hannah's mo…
…her since 13 September. now She was four blocks further up the same page, in the table of John Saniger's children, as ANN SANIGAR 1798. One vowel apart, the same index entry, on the same screen. how I opened a record set that named…
…was christened five weeks later. Catherine Cotton is a name this archive had never held. John Saniger baptised Berkeley 18 MAY 1769 · father THO'S Saniger Tree: b. 15 May 1769, Berkeley — Buried at Berkeley 16 January 1825, aged 55…
…misreadings, including « Sainger should read Saniger » . The man living in the hamlet is John Saniger of Saniger , his name and his address the same word, and the muster holds three spellings in 1608, not four. Now correction 31 .…
Sources attached in the tree
- Guthrie Web Site — John Saniger
- FamilySearch Family Tree — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-886451072/john-saniger-in-familysearch-family-tree
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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