The D'Arcy Archive
1836–1899

Martha Wakefield

Of England.

FamilyNo record yet ties them to their parents or their children, so the relationships above are the family tree's. 1 record that names them has been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →

Martha Wakefield1836–1899in the tree
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

None of the 9 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

Born1836England
Died23 APR 1899Maryborough, Queensland
Buried—Maryborough Cemetery, Maryborough, Queensland (Plot: Monumental L, Grave 410)

Counted here with the Wakefield family · that family →

Family

Parents

James Wakefield · Hannah SANIGER

Brothers and sisters

Eliza Wakefield (b. 1832) · Ellen Wakefield (b. 1834) · Hiram Wakefield (1837–1905) · Aaron Wakefield (1840–1896) · Miriam Wakefield (1840–1909) · Jabez Wakefield (1843–1903) · Zillah Wakefield (1846–1900)

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. But 1 record naming Martha Wakefield has been read, and it is set out below. How claims are labelled →

Every entry naming Martha Wakefield in the register →

What the records say

Every record this archive has read that names Martha Wakefield. The name is unique in this tree, so these are his or hers. The whole register →

marriage · 31 July 1887, to PHILIP MILLINGEN — the only Martha Wakefield marriage in the Queensland index

recordQueensland marriage index 1887/B/11632 · the source ↗

Everywhere Martha appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutMartha Wakefield in prose, gathered automatically — 6 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 →

What changed

…ied 23 April 1899, 1899/C/3288 — and names her parents as JOHN WAKEFIELD and a HUGHES. No Martha Wakefield dies in Queensland at all between 1855 and 1960. Another man's daughter had been grafted onto James and Hannah. Filed two errors:…

The Wakefields

…r list as a question about emigration. It was not a question about emigration. documented Martha Wakefield — resolved, and against the tree. Tested in the free Queensland index, which took minutes. The answer is better than either side…

What Has Been Read

…chive were involved. 14 Sep 2026 Queensland historical death index — free found something Martha Wakefield, whom this site said might never have existed MARTHA HURFORD died 23 April 1899 (1899/C/3288) — the tree's date to the day — and…

Reading the archive against itself

…and the question was never framed that way. Six generations at Berkeley → Question 6 And Martha Wakefield, which went the other way This site says Martha “may never have existed”: named on five pages, searched at Bristol under every sp…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…ry event the page was built on. Where it was corrected → 14 September 2026 was Wrote that Martha Wakefield “may never have existed” and that she was “not in the family tree either”, after searching for her in Bristol. She is in the tree…

The work list

…ows remain: Elizabeth Pitt, Joseph D'Arcy's Hampshire marriage and Richard Darcy of 1784, Martha Wakefield at Bristol, and the 1804 Cornet — which is not a null at all but a record found and discarded, and is mislabelled. All five uncon…

Written about here

Pages of this archive where Martha is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.

Sources attached in the tree

  • Backhouse Web Site — Martha Hurford (born Wakefield)

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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