The D'Arcy Archive
1846–1900

Zillah Wakefield

Of England.

DocumentedProved by 2 records. 4 records that name them have been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →

Zillah Wakefield1846–1900in the tree
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

2 of the 9 relationships shown here are written in a record this archive has read; the other 7 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →

The record

Born1846England
Died27 JUN 1900Queensland, Australia

Counted here with the Wakefield family · that family →

Family

Parents

James Wakefield · Hannah SANIGER

Married

John Ludwig Frederick · 25 OCT 1871 at Brisbane, Queensland

Brothers and sisters

Eliza Wakefield (b. 1832) · Ellen Wakefield (b. 1834) · Martha Wakefield (1836–1899) · Hiram Wakefield (1837–1905) · Aaron Wakefield (1840–1896) · Miriam Wakefield (1840–1909) · Jabez Wakefield (1843–1903)

Where this comes from

2 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. Qld death reg. 1900/C/3322; Qld death reg. 1900/C/3322 — “Hannah Saniger”.

Every entry naming Zillah Wakefield in the register →

What the records say

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

married John Ludwig Frederick · 25 October 1871 · Brisbane

recordQueensland marriage index 1871/B/3366 · the source ↗

aged 8 · aboard the General Hewitt

recordQSA S13086/ITM18474, passenger register, image DR38490 · the source ↗

daughter, aged 5, scholar · a child this archive had never heard of

record1851 census, Drivers Fields, St Paul, Bristol — HO107/1949 f.478 p.14 sch.66 (FindMyPast) · the source ↗

married in Queensland 1871 · born Bristol 1845, she sailed on the General Hewitt at eight

recordQueensland Marriages / Burials & Memorials (FindMyPast) · the source ↗

Everywhere Zillah appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutZillah 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

…find Catherine anywhere else, which is the one new question this opened. Traced Jabez and Zillah Wakefield to Queensland, where they married in 1863 and 1871. Corrected my own claim that Jabez and Zillah were children nobody here had he…

What Has Been Read

…26 FindMyPast — Queensland Marriages and Burials found something What became of Jabez and Zillah Wakefield They emigrated with their parents and lived. JABEZ WAKEFIELD, born Bristol 1843, married in Queensland in 1863 and was buried the…

The General Hewitt

…an independent statement of her birthplace 48 — — ditto — Jabez Wakefield 11 — — ditto — Zillah Wakefield 8 — — ditto — Ephraim Wakefield 5 — — ditto — Single men · page 80 Name Age Occupation Country Hiram Wakefield entered separately…

Reading the archive against itself

…d already been filed once On 13 September this archive published an error about Jabez and Zillah Wakefield, announced as “two children nobody here had ever heard of” when both were on a passenger manifest it had transcribed itself in Ju…

Hannah was a Berkeley woman

…ield Son 10 Errand boy — Miriam Wakefield Daughter 10 Servant — Jabez Wakefield Son 8 — — Zillah Wakefield Daughter 5 Scholar — England Marriages 1538-1973 And the marriage, at last HANNAH SANIGER married JAMES WAKEFIELD at Bristol on 1…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…y one of them is true. Where it was corrected → 13 September 2026 was Announced Jabez and Zillah Wakefield as “two children nobody here had ever heard of”, found in the 1851 census. now Both are on the General Hewitt passenger register,…

Written about here

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

Sources attached in the tree

  • Backhouse Web Site — Zillah Frederick (born Wakefield)
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-2002732_OYYV6GZOR6YBKZOC2KSTVC3SUN2PBZA_OYYV6GZOR6YBKZOC2KSTVC3SUN2PBZA/zillah-frederick-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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