The D'Arcy Archive
1770–1851

Lydia Jones

Of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England.

FamilyAsserted by the family tree. No record has been found for them, and none has been shown against them either. How this archive grades a claim →

Lydia Jones1770–1851direct line · generation 8
marriedJohn Saniger1769–1824tree · direct line
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

None of the 4 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

Born13 MAR 1770Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England
Died7 JUL 1851Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England

direct line · generation 8 counting back from the present day

Family

Parents

Sarah · William Jones

Married

John Saniger · TO 1797 at Berkley, Gloucester, England

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Children

Hannah SANIGER (1805–1873)

Where this comes from

No relationship on this page has been checked against a record — the parents, marriages and children drawn above are what the family tree says. Nothing else has been found for them either way. How claims are labelled →

Every entry naming Lydia Jones in the register →

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Everywhere Lydia appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutLydia Jones in prose, gathered automatically — 9 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 →

Behind the paywall

…e-opened On 16 September a claim carried by every online tree — that John Saniger married Lydia Jones at Berkeley in 1797 — was disproved by opening a transcript and reading one field the result row does not show: the spouse's surn…

One vowel

…a fact AND THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN DATA HOLDS FOUR MORE FIELDS THAT THIS PAGE NEVER MENTIONED: Lydia Jones born 13 MARCH 1770 AT WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, Gloucestershire; parents WILLIAM JONES and SARAH; died 7 JULY 1851 AT BERKELEY. Every on…

What changed

…me and made the family reconstitution possible. LYDIA IS REAL AND HER WEDDING IS NOT. The Lydia Jones who marries at Berkeley in 1798 married a SAWYER, on the transcript rather than the result row. Her death as Lydia Sanigar in 185…

Open Questions

…looking — this register names no mothers. She is still the tree's LYDIA, with the tree's Lydia Jones born 13 March 1770 at Wotton-under-Edge untested because FreeREG does not list the parish. The 1797 marriage would name her; ques…

Errands

…s the cheapest unexploited document in this archive. Context → 37 Answered The baptism of Lydia Jones at WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, about 13 March 1770 — TESTED, and FreeREG cannot answer it Gloucestershire Archives. FreeREG was tested on…

What Has Been Read

…ord not being there. control named 13 Sep 2026 FreeREG — the marriage of John Saniger and Lydia Jones could not be reached About 1795–1804, wherever Hannah was born Cannot be attempted usefully. Hannah was born outside Gloucestersh…

The Sanigers, reconstituted

…ves Asked of all 81 households Found A mother called Lydia the tree names Hannah's mother Lydia Jones None. Not one household in the county empty A father John with a wife Lydia the tree names her father John Saniger None. empty A…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…that corrects it rather than deleted. The tree said The record says John Saniger married Lydia Jones at Berkeley in 1797 There is one Lydia marrying at Berkeley between 1790 and 1810 and she is LYDIA JONES, 8 January 1798 — whose…

The work list

…rriages would also test the FamilySearch tree's unsourced claim that John Saniger married Lydia Jones at Berkeley in 1797 , which is the oldest open question on this archive's direct line. Done 16 September for marriages. Eight spe…

What is written about Lydia

Carried across from the family tree, with its markup stripped. Family testimony, not an independent record — valuable, and labelled.

SANIGER, Hannah b non Australian birth; par John JENNIGER & Lydia ------; arr Moreton Bay 12-Dec-1854 per General Hewitt having sailed from Southampton on Friday 25-Aug-1854; sp James WAKEFIELD (c1806 - 1857), ch Hiram bc1838 d 25-Jun-1905, Aaron bc1840 d 21-Sep1896, Miriam bc1840 d 12-Aug-1909 (m SNEYD), Jabez bc1843 d 8-Feb-1903, Zillah bc1846 d 27-Jun-1900 (m FREDERICK), Ephraim bc1849 d 26-May-1868; d 4-Jul-18738 Mudgerabah, Qld., 67 years old. WAKEFIELD -On the 4th July, at Mudgerabah, Nerang Creek, Hannah relict of the late James Wakefield, and mother of Hiram Wakefield, of this city, aged 69 years. Family Notices (1873, August 6). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), , p. 1.

Sources attached in the tree

  • FamilySearch Family Tree — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-1099507321/lydia-jones-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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