Queensland civil registration
Births, deaths and marriages, from 1856.
Where the evidence comes from
Sources
Every citation the archive carries, counted — and, more usefully, a plain statement of which of them are records and which are other people's family trees.
Of the 473 published people here, 302 carry at least one citation. That number flatters the archive, and this page exists to say why.
A family tree is not a source. Several of the most frequent citations below are
other people's online trees — Geni, FamilySearch Family Tree, and named MyHeritage sites. Those
record what somebody believed. They are shown because concealing them would be worse, but they
carry no evidential weight in this archive, and a claim resting only on them is marked
family lore or disputed however
many trees repeat it. Method →
Can the reader still see it if the page goes?
A citation that resolves today is not the same as a citation that will resolve tomorrow, and a footnote to a page that has gone is a footnote to nothing — the reader cannot tell it from a good one. So every citation this archive chose for itself is checked against the Wayback Machine, and the number below is counted by the tool rather than typed here.
73 of 89
have a permanent copy (82%)
27
need none — they ARE the Internet Archive
16
have none, by the host's choice
A host that declines to be archived is not a job undone. Every one of the
16 without a capture resolves perfectly well and simply refuses to be crawled:
nla.gov.au (6), www.findagrave.com (3), cityark.medway.gov.uk, darcy.defranceski.com, daviddef.github.io, www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au, www.familysearch.org, fibis.ourarchives.online, www.archivesdepartementales76.net. Counting those as a gap would read as laziness rather than as a fact about the host.
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
Printed and catalogued sources this archive has actually opened
Record sets above are databases. These are books and catalogues — every one free, out of copyright or open without an account, every one read rather than cited. They are listed here because until 15 September 2026 each of them lived only on the one or two pages that happened to use it.
| Source | Edition read | Where | What it gave this archive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitworth Porter, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol. 1 | 1889 | Internet Archive, full text | Lieutenant Robert D'Arcy at the siege of Fort St Philip's, Minorca, 1781; «Robert D'Arcy, Barbados» in a station list; Commanding Engineer at Copenhagen 1807; Commanding Royal Engineer at Walcheren 1809 and the arrest at Flushing. → |
| Porter, vol. 2 | 1889 | Internet Archive, full text | NOTHING, and the null is controlled: the volume mentions the Peninsula 48 times, Waterloo 11 and the Crimea 43. It is the post-1815 volume and his service ended about 1809. → |
| The printed Army Lists | 1778 · 1781 · 1783 · 1802 · 1803 · 1821 | Internet Archive, full text | The seniority chain that settles 17 JANUARY 1776 in three separate editions; Second Lieutenant in 1783, Captain of the Royal Engineers by 1802, Major in the army by 1803; and «D'Arcy, Lt. Col. Joseph, Royal Art.» in 1821. Also the spelling ROBERT D'ARCEY, which is why outside catalogues had never returned him. → |
| The Royal Military Calendar | 1820 | Internet Archive, full text | All three D'Arcys in one place, 17 January 1776 confirmed, and the Persia service moved from inferred to documented. → |
| Connolly's Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers | 1660–1898 | printed roll | Entry 203, the full career and «Died at Chatham, 13 5 1827». Only two D'Arcys in the whole Roll. It carries no parentage — the Roll does not record fathers. → |
| The London Gazette | 1665 onwards | thegazette.co.uk, free, no account | A structural silence about 1776, and one exact date: by warrant of 23 April 1787, issue 12850 page 197, the Corps of Engineers became the Corps of ROYAL Engineers. → |
| John Smyth of Nibley, A Description of the Hundred of Berkeley | written c. 1639, printed 1885 as vol. 3 of The Berkeley Manuscripts | Internet Archive, full text | «Swonhunger; corruptly called Saniger», and three further and flatter alias statements in the language of an estate survey; the hamlets of Hamfallow; and the freehold called OLDMINSTER with its own tithe barn, which reappears in a deed of 1690–1741. → |
| Smyth, The Lives of the Berkeleys | vols. 1–2 | Internet Archive, full text | The Swonhunger pedigree, six generations to the failure of the main line in 1401 and the estate's passage to Thorpe. → |
| Isaac Herbert Jeayes, Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters and Muniments at Berkeley Castle | 1892 | Internet Archive, full text | The Berkeley charters itemised — including a fishery reserved on Wednesdays and Fridays. → |
| Samuel Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire | 1779 | Internet Archive, full text | A controlled null — the hamlet is absent from 5.7 million characters while Wanswell, Hamfallow, Halmore and Alkington are all in his index — and the Thorps of Wanswell holding by castle-guard at a named tower, carried to 1525. → |
| Ralph Bigland, Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections relative to the County of Gloucester | 1791 | Internet Archive, full text | «Saniger, long held by an old Family of the same Name»; the Berkeley monuments; and Edward Saniger among the freeholders of Hinton. → |
| John Smyth, Men and Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608 | Maclean's edition, 1902 | coaley.net transcript | Eleven men of the surname, with trade, age and stature — and a printer's error this archive published for a day. See the next row. → |
| Gloucestershire Notes and Queries | the digitised volumes | Internet Archive, full text | The contemporary review of that 1902 edition, listing its misreadings: «Thus SAINGER SHOULD READ SANIGER.» Three spellings in 1608, not four. Correction 31. → |
| The National Archives' Discovery catalogue | live | discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk, free, no account | 195 records under the medieval spellings of the surname against 71 under the modern one; the Berkeley Castle Muniments calendared item by item; the Awre manor court rolls, 1387 to 1881; the E 179 hearth taxes; and the Protestation Returns series, from which Gloucestershire is missing. → |
14 sources, and not one of them cost anything. Two are listed for what they did NOT contain, because a controlled null is a result — and one is here for an error it found in this archive rather than a fact it gave. The count above is computed from this table, not typed: a typed number is wrong the moment the table grows, which is why [/about](/about/)'s figures were made computed on 14 September.
Record sets — these are evidence — Each entry says what was read and, where it matters, what was not. A source named without that distinction is a citation, not evidence.
New South Wales civil registration and parish registers
Including St James's, Sydney, where George Lindsay D'Arcy was christened on 5 November 1829.
Australian newspapers (Trove)
Death and funeral notices, and the Brisbane press.
Queensland State Archives, series S36 — Coronial Files
Item ITM2736504, digital representation DR103140: the 1902 magisterial inquiry into the death of William Hartley Sneyd. Eighteen images, no text layer, read and transcribed in full from the originals on 9 September 2026. It supplies four sworn depositions, a post-mortem certificate and a Government Analyst's certificate, and it is the only record in this archive in which a member of the family speaks about another under oath.
National Archives of Australia, series B2455 — First World War service dossiers
The thirty-page dossier of Private Arthur Hartley Sneyd, 5050 (item 8088453) has been read in full: attestation, physical description, statement of service, the Army Form B.2090A report of death, and the Kit Store inventory of his effects. The dossier of L/Cpl Vivian Claude Sneyd, 1696 (item 8087524, 21 pages) has been partly read — the Service and Casualty Form and the Statement of Service. A third, Pte Ernest Vivian William Sneyd, 3891 (item 8087517), was located and has not been opened.
For Sergeant Lindesay Atkinson D'Arcy, 11335, no B2455 item could be found under either spelling. An earlier version of this page said a fourteen-page dossier «is known to exist»; that was an overclaim and is withdrawn. What the search did find is NAA: J34, C34558, a Repatriation Commission pension case file of 1937-38 with his widow as beneficiary — not digitised, and not yet read.
RecordSearch has no stable per-item address that survives a session, so the link opens the search; the item number is in the description above.
Australian War Memorial, AWM 28 — recommendation files for honours and awards
The recommendation for the Bar to the Military Medal for 1696 L/Cpl Vivian Claud Sneyd, 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, dated 12 October 1917, endorsed «Awarded» and signed by Lieut-Col. A. Graham Butler — read and transcribed in full.
Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files (AWM 1DRL/0428)
The twenty-three-page file for 5050 Private Arthur Hartley Sneyd, 9th Battalion, read in full. Six statements taken from men in the hospitals and base depots of France, and two letters from the friend who kept looking for him for thirteen months. It is hearsay evidence, gathered as such and contradictory on its face, and it is treated that way here.
Australian War Memorial — embarkation and nominal rolls second-hand
Used here for Sergeant Lindesay Atkinson D'Arcy, 11335 and Private Arthur Hartley Sneyd, 5050. The AWM 131 Roll of Honour index card for Sneyd has been read. The Roll of Honour circular — the form his family filled in by hand — survives and has still not been read directly; one phrase from it reaches this archive at second hand, through the AIF Project's transcription, and is quoted as such: that he «gave up this rank in Egypt in order to get across to France».
AWM's own collection search returned nothing for any query on 9 September 2026 — the Memorial is migrating its records. The documents were reached by direct URL instead.
Brisbane City Council cemetery registers
Toowong, Dutton Park, South Brisbane, Nundah, Lutwyche, Mt Thompson.
This archive's data still cites the council's old host
graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au, which no longer resolves at all — it has no DNS record. The search now lives on the council's main site, which is where the link above goes.Ireland, Births and Baptisms, 1620–1881 (index, via FamilySearch)
The christening of Paul Cole Atkinson at Limerick on 9 July 1832, naming Richard Atkinson and Anne. RootsIreland itself has not been searched — it needs a paid account, and a request is drafted.
Caribbean Birth & Baptism Index 1590–1928
The christening of Constantine Darcy at St Michael, Barbados, 18 February 1786, naming Robert Darcy and Jane.
Linked to FamilySearch's *Caribbean, Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928*, whose span matches this row exactly; FindMyPast publishes the same index under the title used here.
Connolly and Edwards, Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1660–1898
R.E. Institute, Chatham, 1898 — entries 203 and 335, for Robert and Constantine D'Arcy. Searched in full via the Internet Archive scan.
The link reaches the Internet Archive, where this row says the volume was searched. The specific scan is not identified here, so the link is to the archive rather than to the book.
Kent Burials and Hampshire Marriages (FindMyPast)
The burial of Robert D'Arcy at St Mary, Chatham, 19 May 1827, and his marriage to Jean Ward at Portsea St Mary, 21 June 1779 — the latter re-opened at transcript level on 17 September 2026 to confirm the spouse's surname.
Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792–1981
The christening of George Lindsay Darcy at St James Sydney, 5 November 1829, naming both parents.
British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices
The marriage notice of «Captain George d'Arcy», son of «Lieut Colonel d'Arcy», Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 23 September 1805.
Scotland, Civil Registration and Scotland, Marriages (indexes)
The birth of William Murdoch at St Quivox and Newton, 7 October 1856, naming Francis Murdoch and Marion Watt; and their marriage at Avondale, Lanarkshire, 6 May 1854. ScotlandsPeople itself, which holds the register images, has not been consulted — it needs a paid account, and a request is drafted.
The link opens *Scotland, Civil Registration, 1855-1875, 1881, 1891*. The companion index is *Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910*, FamilySearch collection 1771074.
FindMyPast — the subscription sets
Taken out in September 2026 and worked through: England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975, which carries a father's first name and yielded 340 baptisms under fifteen spellings of Saniger; England Marriages 1538-1973; England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007; the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses; and British Army Lists & Commission Registers 1661-1826. Every null taken from them names the control that could have disproved it.
The National Archives — Discovery, by API
GET /API/search/records needs no account, no key and no bot check, and returns JSON. Used to sweep the whole catalogue under fifteen spellings of the surname and nine of its medieval form — 134 and 193 distinct records, across twelve repositories.
Bristol Archives — St James Bristol parish registers, read by staff
The marriage of Thomas Sanigar and Martha Golding, 24 August 1828, read from the register and reported in full on 22 September 2026 — by banns, witnesses James Hall and Thomas Davey, the surname spelt SANIGAR where the index reads SANIGRE. Free. Their reply also established what the entry does not carry, which closed three errands.
Family documents held privately
The eulogy for Kenneth Lindsay D'Arcy
March 2010 — four thousand words in three parts, delivered by Gayle, Ian and Graham D'Arcy. The single richest source in the archive.
Held. Held privately by the family
A 1970 school photograph
Pimlico State High School, Townsville, showing Ian D'Arcy — which independently confirms the Townsville decade described in the eulogy.
Held. Held privately by the family
The «This Is Your Life» book
Presented to Ken D'Arcy on his retirement from National Mutual in 1982. Referred to in the eulogy; not yet located.
Held. Held privately by the family
19 record sets, 19 of them linked to the thing itself.
Every citation string in the tree, counted
Exactly as carried in the exported GEDCOM, so that the balance between records and trees is visible rather than asserted.
| Citation | People |
|---|---|
| Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) | 175 |
| FamilySearch Family Tree | 99 |
| Geni World Family Tree | 34 |
| Sneyd Web Site | 25 |
| Backhouse Web Site | 10 |
| Guthrie Web Site | 9 |
| Darcy Web Site | 8 |
| Australian Newspapers | 8 |
| Graham Milgate DNA | 7 |
| WikiTree | 5 |
| Biographical Summaries of Notable People | 5 |
| Sarlin+ Family Web Site | 4 |
| MCCARTHY Web Site | 4 |
| McDougall Web Site | 4 |
| Hallett Web Site | 4 |
| Travers Web Site | 4 |
| FordMoodyDavisOsbAckSipesLenard Web Site | 3 |
| Our Huge Family Tree | 3 |
| Evans Web Site | 3 |
| Donna Spencer Web Site | 3 |
| Stewart-Moore Web Site | 3 |
| Barnett Web Site | 3 |
| South Brisbane Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions | 3 |
| Myatt Web Site | 3 |
| johnsongardnerfamilysite Web Site | 3 |
| Macleod Web Site | 3 |
| Gainard Family Tree Web Site | 2 |
| Compilation of Published Sources | 2 |
| England Marriages, 1538-1973 | 2 |
| history Web Site | 2 |
| Archibald-Carter | 2 |
| Elliott Web Site | 2 |
| Buhmann Web Site | 2 |
| Stuart Web Site | 1 |
| Planert Web Site | 1 |
| Molter-Logemann Family Web Site | 1 |
| Carter Web Site | 1 |
| Wenzel Web Site | 1 |
| Hirt-Klooze Web Site | 1 |
| Genealogie Stein | 1 |
| S Web Site | 1 |
| Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 | 1 |
| Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980 | 1 |
| Paul Dudley | 1 |
| Langford Family Site (23andMe) | 1 |
| ANDREW BYRNE DESCENDANTS Web Site | 1 |
| Haworth Web Site | 1 |
| Gordon-Miller Web Site | 1 |
| Barratt Web Site | 1 |
| Toowong Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions | 1 |
| Cameron Web Site | 1 |
| McIlwaine Web Site | 1 |
| 1881 England & Wales Census | 1 |
| WILLIS Web Site | 1 |
| Julius Web Site | 1 |
| Discovering Anzacs | 1 |
| Smith Web Site | 1 |
| Trove | 1 |
| lloyd Web Site | 1 |