The D'Arcy Archive
1769–1856

Samuel Sneyd

a grocer of Hanley

DocumentedProved by 2 records. 9 records that name them have been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →

written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

2 of the 15 relationships shown here are written in a record this archive has read; the other 13 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →

More than one sibling here carries the same name — William Sneyd. They are drawn separately. This archive does not merge records on a name. Why →

The record

Born1769Madeley, Staffordshire, England
Died20 SEP 1856No 3, Well St, Hanley, Staffordshire, England
Tradea grocer of Hanley

direct line

Counted here with the Sneyd family · that family →

Family

Parents

William Sneyd · Mary Blackbourne

Married

Elizabeth Margaret Oliver · 22 OCT 1809 at Audlem, Cheshire, England

Brothers and sisters

Dinah Sneyd (b. 1772) · Theodosia Sneyd (b. 1773) · Sarah Sneyd (b. 1776) · James Sneyd (b. 1779) · William Sneyd (b. 1780) · Mary Sneyd (b. 1788) · William Sneyd (b. 1769)

Children

Ralph Sneyd (1793–1870) · Walter Sneyd (1809–1888) · Samuel Charles Sneyd (1810–1885) · Mary Sneyd (b. 1814) · James Sneyd (b. 1818)

Where this comes from

2 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. baptism, Madeley, 4 Jun 1781; marriage, Madeley, 27 Mar 1769; baptism, Hanley, 28 Apr 1811.

Every entry naming Samuel Sneyd in the register →

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What the records say

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

baptised Madeley All Saints, 4 June 1781 · father William Sneyd, weaver — the tree puts him in 1769, which is his eldest brother's year

recordFreeREG, Madeley All Saints parish register · the source ↗

buried 23 September 1855, AGED 77, of 91 WELL ST., Hanley · the tree said 20 September 1856 at No 3 Well St, and the year is wrong

recordHanley St John the Evangelist, burial register (FreeREG), entry 2330 · the source ↗

death registered September quarter 1855, Stoke upon Trent, volume 6b page 75 · the only Samuel Sneyd death registered in England and Wales between 1854 and 1858

recordGeneral Register Office death index (FreeBMD) · the source ↗

head, aged 72, GROCER, of WELL STREET, Hanley · born MADELEY, STAFFORDSHIRE — alive in his own shop four years before he died

record1851 census, Well Street, Hanley — HO107/2004 f.138 p.13 sch.46 (FindMyPast) · the source ↗

mortgagor to James Gibbon · Subdivision 3, Portions 152–153, Parish of North Brisbane, 1870

recordQSA ITM3248152 · the source ↗

mortgagor to the Brisbane Mutual Building and Investment Society · Allotment 293, Parish of North Brisbane, 1872

recordQSA ITM3622143 · the source ↗

one of three trustees, with James Voller and William Bell, Parish of Enoggera, 1872

recordQSA ITM3621487 · the source ↗

AND MADELEY HAS TWO HALVES, WHICH NOBODY HERE HAS NOTED · the printed register distinguishes GREAT MADELEY from LITTLE MADELEY — “Leak of L. Madeley” against “William Sneyd of Gt. Madeley” · this archive records his baptism at “Madeley All Saints” and has never said which township the family lived in · A PLACE THIS ARCHIVE HAS BEEN TREATING AS ONE IS TWO, which is the same trap as the two Ingouvilles and the two Kingswoods

recordStaffordshire Parish Register Society, the printed Madeley register — Internet Archive staffordshirepar0000mrnw, lending-restricted, read only through its public search snippets · the source ↗

HIS MARRIAGE IS NOT IN THE PRINTED OSWESTRY REGISTER, AND THAT PROVES NOTHING · the eight printed St Asaph volumes carry 581 Oswestry marriages, and the only Sneyds in any of them are GENTRY SNEYDS OF BISHTON, Staffordshire, with no connection shown to this family · BUT THE PRINTED MARRIAGE RUN ENDS IN 1808 and the marriage to Elizabeth Oliver is placed about 1809 — THE TRANSCRIPT STOPS ONE YEAR SHORT, so the absence is coverage and not evidence

recordShropshire Parish Registers, Diocese of St Asaph — the printed Oswestry registers, read in full text, Internet Archive shropshireparish06asapshro and shropshireparish07asapshro · the source ↗

Everywhere Samuel appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutSamuel Sneyd in prose, gathered automatically — 13 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

…DAVID on 12 JULY 1789. Elizabeth is this archive's Elizabeth Margaret Oliver, who married Samuel Sneyd, and THESE ARE THE FIRST SIBLINGS SHE HAS EVER HAD HERE. AND A ONE-DIGIT DISAGREEMENT THAT NOBODY CAN SETTLE FROM HERE. The print…

Errands

…d Lydia, would close the oldest open question on this site in one line. Context → 10 Open Samuel Sneyd's death certificate, Hanley 1855 — LOCAL REFERENCE FOUND General Register Office (GRO 1855 Q3, Stoke, vol 6b p.75) OR, better, St…

How Far Back

…Madeley the graft fails here The tree makes him Ralph's son. The register does not. 1781 Samuel Sneyd · grocer, of Hanley Baptised Madeley, 4 June 1781, father William Sneyd. Married Elizabeth Margaret Oliver at Audlem, Cheshire, 2…

What Has Been Read

…his parentage. 13 Sep 2026 FindMyPast — 1851 census, Well Street, Hanley found something Samuel Sneyd alive, and his wife's birthplace HO107/2004 f.138 p.13: SAMUEL SNEYD, 72, GROCER, of WELL STREET, born MADELEY, STAFFORDSHIRE; EL…

Sergeant Sneyd

…anley, Stoke-on-Trent, on 15 March 1810 and christened there on 28 April 1811, the son of Samuel Sneyd, a grocer of Hanley , and Elizabeth Margaret Oliver. In 1832 he came to New South Wales with the 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foo…

The Inquest, 1902

…sequence of an injury to his arm. His age was 64 years, born in ——, his father's name was Samuel Sneyd, Gaol Governor, his mother's name was Catherine. — Hislop was the Undertaker, he was a Contractor, he was married at Brisbane whe…

The Sneyds

…748, Simeon 1751 and no William, in a parish transcribed continuously. searched and empty Samuel Sneyd baptised 1769, Madeley Found — in 1781. Madeley baptises a Samuel, son of William, on 4 June 1781 , within a family of thirteen c…

The Timeline

…register 3, entry 265 1859 Colonial Queensland Queensland separates from New South Wales. Samuel Sneyd becomes Governor of Brisbane Gaol 1862 Colonial Queensland William Hartley Sneyd enters the public service, 1 February — the Gove…

The Sneyds of the Potteries

…e, and this is their family. The correction Samuel is 1781, not 1769 The family tree says Samuel Sneyd, born 1769 at Madeley , son of William Sneyd and Mary Blackbourne. This archive searched for that baptism twice today and reporte…

The Women

…stood up in the Brisbane Police Court in September 1902 and said " his father's name was Samuel Sneyd, Gaol Governor, his mother's name was Catherine ", she settled a question four separate research passes had been circling — and s…

What the indexes actually hold

…COUNTY 1800–1820 returns TWO entries — one at Whitegate, one at Wrenbury. The marriage of Samuel Sneyd and Elizabeth Oliver at Audlem on 22 October 1809 cannot be tested here. This is the emptiest county holding this archive has mea…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…re else. Where it was corrected → 13 September 2026 was Reported twice in one day that no Samuel Sneyd baptism existed at Madeley for the tree's 1769. now The Samuel is there, baptised 4 June 1781 — son of William Sneyd, weaver, and…

The work list

…iam Sneyd, Weaver » and «Thomas s. of William Sneyd of Gt. Madeley » — and this archive's Samuel Sneyd was baptised at Madeley All Saints on 4 June 1781 with his father given as William Sneyd, weaver . The snippets carry no years ,…

Sources attached in the tree

  • Sneyd Web Site — Samuel Sneyd

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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