Miriam Wakefield
Of St Paul, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
DocumentedProved by 10 records. 6 records that name them have been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →
6 of the 17 relationships shown here are written in a record this archive has read; the other 11 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →
The record
| Born | 11 APR 1840 | St Paul, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England |
| Died | 12 AUG 1909 | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Buried | — | Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland (Port. GP5, Sect. 42A, Grave 78) |
registered The died date above is confirmed by the Queensland civil register — registration 1909/C/1054, naming her parents as James Wakefield and Hannah Saniger. Sources →
direct line
Counted here with the Wakefield family · that family →
Family
Parents
James Wakefield · Hannah SANIGER
Married
William Hartley Sneyd · 15 NOV 1859 at Queensland, Australia
Brothers and sisters
Eliza Wakefield (b. 1832) · Ellen Wakefield (b. 1834) · Martha Wakefield (1836–1899) · Hiram Wakefield (1837–1905) · Aaron Wakefield (1840–1896) · Jabez Wakefield (1843–1903) · Zillah Wakefield (1846–1900)
Children
Thomas George Sneyd (1859–1927) · Louisa Miriam Sneyd (1861–1927) · Catherine Isabel Sneyd (1864–1947) · Arthur William Hartley Sneyd (1866–1922) · Ernest Ephraim Sneyd (1869–1946) · Ada Zillah Sneyd (1872–1921)
Where this comes from
7 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. her sworn deposition, DR103140; Qld death reg. 1909/C/1054; Qld death reg. 1927/B/2729; Qld death reg. 1922/B/37152; Qld death reg. 1946/B/8931; NAA B2455 8088453, next of kin.
What the records say
Every record this archive has read that names Miriam Wakefield. The name is unique in this tree, so these are his or hers. The whole register →
died 12/08/1909 · parents: Hannah Saniger · James Wakefield
recordQueensland death index 1909/C/1054 · the source ↗
married William Hartley Sneyd · 15 November 1859 · Brisbane — she was nineteen
recordQueensland marriage index 1859/B/255 · the source ↗
aged 1 · born in Gloucestershire
record1841 census, HO107/374, ED 13 p.10, Drivers Fields, St Paul, Bristol · the source ↗
birth registered June quarter 1840 · Bristol district · volume 11, page 183 — the only Miriam Wakefield registered in England between 1839 and 1843
recordFreeBMD, GRO birth index · the source ↗
daughter, aged 10, SERVANT · already in work three years before she sailed
record1851 census, Drivers Fields, St Paul, Bristol — HO107/1949 f.478 p.14 sch.66 (FindMyPast) · the source ↗
as MIRIAM SNEYD, widow · sworn deposition naming his father “Samuel Sneyd, Gaol Governor” and his mother Catherine
recordQSA coronial file ITM2736504 (DR103140), read in full · the source ↗
Everywhere Miriam appears in this archive
Every page of this site that writes aboutMiriam Wakefield in prose, gathered automatically — 16 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 →
…w how, when, or on what. The passenger register gives all three — and a fourteen-year-old Miriam Wakefield shipped as a domestic servant. The families they married Sneyd, Atkinson, Murdoch, Atwell, Blum, Keeling, Creech, Matson, Wakefie…
…ershire, England 5 more generations Hannah SANIGER 1805–1873 Berkley, Gloucester, England Miriam Wakefield 1840–1909 St Paul, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Arthur William Hartley Sneyd 1866–1922 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia No pa…
…line in a Queensland death register The whole Saniger claim hangs on a single fact: 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 a…
…archive says about Gloucestershire hangs on one line in a Queensland death register: 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…
…y pages about them. The Sneyds → Wakefield Out of Bristol, into Queensland Could be drawn 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 spe…
…39 Gloucestershire records spanning 1790–1900, no Saniger ever marries a Wakefield. Found Miriam Wakefield's birth registration in FreeBMD: June quarter 1840, Bristol, volume 11, page 183 — the only one in England in five years. Control…
…a Chew Magna will of the 1820s would be found. Context → 12 Open GRO birth certificate — Miriam Wakefield, Jun quarter 1840, Bristol, vol 11 page 183 General Register Office, gro.gov.uk (an account, no visit) · £2.50 as a PDF Reference…
…r , born at Berkeley, Gloucestershire , 12 October 1679 — reached through Hannah Saniger, Miriam Wakefield's mother, on the Bristol side. Edward Cotton , born at Ashton-under-Hill, Gloucestershire, 6 January 1687. Lydia Lyon , born at M…
…e James anywhere. 13 Sep 2026 Queensland historical BDM index — marriages found something Miriam Wakefield's marriage, and her siblings' Miriam Wakefield married WILLIAM HARTLEY SNEYD on 15 November 1859 at Brisbane, registration 1859/B…
…–4 Martha Blum 1904 Lutwyche, Portion GP5, Section 42A, Grave 78 — with her mother-in-law Miriam Wakefield Ivy Miriam Sneyd 1979 Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens, Holland Park Kenneth Lindsay D'Arcy 2010 Centenary Memorial Gardens, Sumner A…
…re family. Its only link to that family is one line in a Queensland death register naming Miriam Wakefield 's mother as Hannah Saniger . Searching for Hannah by name had failed. Repeatedly → So instead of searching for her, the county w…
…lop was the Undertaker, he was a Contractor, he was married at Brisbane when 22 years, to Miriam Wakefield. Thomas George 41, Louisa Miriam 39, Catherine Isabel 37, Arthur William Hartley 35, Ernest Ephraim 33, Ada Zillah 30 — and the w…
…of his sixty-fifth birthday, and was buried at Lutwyche Cemetery, Kedron , where his wife Miriam Wakefield and his daughter-in-law Martha Blum lie too. This archive briefly published 1838 and was wrong → What replaced it The real line,…
…t. And yet the single most valuable document in this archive is a woman's testimony. When Miriam Wakefield stood up in the Brisbane Police Court in September 1902 and said " his father's name was Samuel Sneyd, Gaol Governor, his mother'…
…TERSHIRE, ENGLAND Hiram Wakefield Son 13 Errand boy — Aaron Wakefield Son 10 Errand boy — Miriam Wakefield Daughter 10 Servant — Jabez Wakefield Son 8 — — Zillah Wakefield Daughter 5 Scholar — England Marriages 1538-1973 And the marriag…
…cking is how an archive overcorrects. Where it was corrected → 13 September 2026 was Said Miriam Wakefield “married at twenty-one”. now She married William Hartley Sneyd at Brisbane on 15 November 1859, aged nineteen — Queensland marria…
Written about here
Pages of this archive where Miriam is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.
Sources attached in the tree
- Travers Web Site — Miriam Sneyd (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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