The Spine
Fifteen generations are asserted, from a Brisbane insurance manager to a Yorkshire castle. Six of them this archive will defend. The break is at one man, and it is marked here rather than smoothed over.
What a fortnight of registers did to it
| Where | What changed |
|---|---|
| Robert D'Arcy generation 8 | His marriage and eldest son are documented at last — Joseph, baptised Portsea 19 March 1780, father Robert, mother Jean. And his burial is found: Chatham, 19 May 1827, aged 76. His parentage is still unknown. → |
| The Sneyd line below the Keele graft | Three of four links now documented — the 1769 Madeley marriage of William the weaver, Samuel's baptism there in 1781 rather than the tree's 1769, and Samuel Charles's at Hanley in 1811. → |
| The Saniger line the archive's oldest claim | Contradicted in the middle and unfindable at the join. The maiden name is settled five times over from Queensland; the woman herself is in none of Gloucestershire's 81 Saniger households, and was born outside the county. → |
This is the male D'Arcy line exactly as the family tree carries it — and then, against each generation, what this archive is actually willing to defend. The colour of the chip is the claim; the sentence beneath it is the reason.
Where the exported tree is demonstrably wrong, the corrected value is shown here and the tree's own version is printed underneath it. Correcting quietly would conceal the one thing this archive is for.
The last 2 generations are living, and are carried by name alone — no date, no place, nothing else. That is the rule everywhere on this site, and it is why the line can run all the way down.
| Gen | Person | Born | At | Died | Trade | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Thomas Darcy Elizabeth Conyers | 5 Jul 1565 | Of, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, England | 6 Nov 1605 | — | Disputed |
| 14 | Conyers (of Hornby Castle) D'arcy Dorothy Bellasyse — m. 2 May 1594 | 27 Aug 1570 | Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, England | 3 Mar 1653 | 7th Lord Darcy Knayth, 4th Baron Conyers, of "Hornby", Sir | Disputed |
| 13 | Conyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy Grace Rokeby — m. 14 Oct 1616 | 24 Jan 1598 | Hornby Castle, North Riding, Yorkshire, England | 14 Jun 1689 | Earl of Holdernesse ( 1st | Disputed |
| 12 | Conyers, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy Frances (Lady of Berkshire) Howard — m. 8 Feb 1650 | 1621/22 | Westminster, Middlesex | 13 Dec 1692 | — | Disputed |
| 11 | John Darcy, Lord D'arcy, Lord Conyers Bridget Sutton Alianna (Aline de La Ley) de la Legh Juliana | c. 1659 | Darcy Meynill, Yorkshire — the tree's geocoder has appended a county in New York State | 6 Jan 1688 | — | Disputed |
| 10 | Robert Darcy Friederike Susanna Frederica von Schönburg — m. 26 May 1715 | 24 Nov 1681 | St. James Palace, London, Middlesex, England, Kingdom of England | 20 Jan 1721 | Earl of Holdernesse ( 3rd | Disputed |
| 9 | Thomas (Francis) D'Arcy Margaret? D'Arcy | between 24 Nov 1681 and 21 Jul 1710 | St. James Palace, London, Middlesex, Englan | c. 21 Jul 1776 | — | Disputed |
| 8 | Robert D'Arcy Jean Ward — m. 21 Jun 1779 | by 1758, and probably earlier | unknown | 13 May 1827 | Army Officer, Major General and Commander of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, England | Documented |
| 7 | George Pitt D'Arcy Miss Ludlam — m. September 1805 Maria White — m. c. 1819, County Wicklow | 18 Feb 1783 | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England or West Indies | 22 Jul 1849 | Army Officer, Major in 39th Battallion of Foot | Documented |
| 6 | George Lindsay D'Arcy Eliza Keeling — m. 7 Jun 1863 | 24 Aug 1829 | Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia | 13 Jul 1901 | — | Documented |
| 5 | George Pitt D'Arcy Ida Kathleen Atkinson — m. 10 Oct 1888 | 5 May 1864 | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 21 Mar 1931 | Chief Clerk Railway Department | Documented |
| 4 | Lindesay Atkinson D'Arcy Ivy Miriam Sneyd — m. 18 Mar 1916 | 15 Jul 1892 | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 10 Nov 1936 | Clerk | Documented |
| 3 | Kenneth Lindsay D'Arcy Audrey "Dell" Murdoch — m. 5 Apr 1952 | 17 Aug 1927 | Sandgate, Queensland, Australia | 3 Mar 2010 | Insurance Manager | Documented |
| 2 | Ian Kenneth D'Arcy | — | — | — | — | Family |
| 1 | Cristina Adele D'Arcy | — | — | — | — | Family |
The upper rows reproduce the exported tree's own fields verbatim, including its truncations — "Earl of Holdernesse ( 3rd" and "St. James Palace, London, Middlesex, Englan" are what the file actually contains. They are left as they are rather than tidied, because tidying data the archive does not defend would suggest a confidence in it that does not exist.
Generation by generation
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Thomas Darcy and Elizabeth Conyers
born5 JUL 1565, Of, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, Englanddied6 NOV 1605, London, Middlesex, Englanddisputed
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
WikiTree
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Conyers (of Hornby Castle) D'arcy and Dorothy Bellasyse
born27 AUG 1570, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, Englanddied3 MAR 1653, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, Englandtrade7th Lord Darcy Knayth, 4th Baron Conyers, of "Hornby", Sirdisputed
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
WikiTree
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Conyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy and Grace Rokeby
born24 JAN 1598, Hornby Castle, North Riding, Yorkshire, Englanddied14 JUN 1689, Hornby Castle, North Riding, Yorkshire, EnglandtradeEarl of Holdernesse ( 1stdisputed
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
Brothers and sisters
Anne DarcyBarbara Conyers D'ArcyDorothy D'ArcyEdward D'ARCYElizabeth D'ArcyGrace D'ArcyHenry D"arcyIsabel D'ArcyJames* DarcyJohn DarcyMargaret D'ArcyMarmaduke D"arcyMary D'ArcyPhiladelphia D'ARCYPhilip DarcyThomas D"arcyUrsula Darcywillam [Sir] D"arcy
Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe)
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Conyers, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy and Frances (Lady of Berkshire) Howard
born1621/22, Westminster, Middlesexdied13 DEC 1692, Aston, Yorkshiredisputed
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
Brothers and sisters
Dorothy DarcyEdward DarcyElizabeth DarcyGrace D'ArcyHon. Margaret DarcyJohn DarcyPhilip DarcyRokeby DarcyUrsula Darcy
Biographical Summaries of Notable People · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe)
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John Darcy, Lord D'arcy, Lord Conyers and Bridget Sutton
bornABT 1659, Darcy Meynill, Yorkshire — the tree's geocoder has appended a county in New York Statedied6 JAN 1688, London, England, United Kingdomdisputed
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
Brothers and sisters
Jane Darcy
MCCARTHY Web Site · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Geni World Family Tree
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Robert Darcy and Friederike Susanna Frederica von Schönburg
born24 NOV 1681, St. James Palace, London, Middlesex, England, Kingdom of Englanddied20 JAN 1721, Bath, Somersetshire, England, Kingdom of Great BritaintradeEarl of Holdernesse ( 3rddisputed
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
Brothers and sisters
Conyers DarcyElizabeth NevilleHarold CaulkwellJoan Fauconberg nee BromfleteJune Darcy
Defranceski Family Site (23andMe)
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Thomas (Francis) D'Arcy and Margaret? D'Arcy
bornBET 24 NOV 1681 AND 21 JUL 1710, St. James Palace, London, Middlesex, EnglandiedABT 21 JUL 1776disputed
The joint here will not bear weight. The inserted generation, and the weakest link in the chain. Said to have been born at St James's Palace, with two birth years sixty-nine years apart. The Earls of Holderness are a documented family; a son of theirs who founds a Portsmouth line is not, on present evidence, one of them. Nothing below this man depends on him — the line stands perfectly well without him.
joinsD'Arcy →
Brothers and sisters
Caroline Louisa D'ARCYGeorge Schomberg d'ArcyRobert, 4th Earl of Holderness Darcy
Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe)
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Robert D'Arcy and Jean Ward
bornby 1758, and probably earlier, unknowndied13 MAY 1827, Chatham, Medway, England, United KingdomtradeArmy Officer, Major General and Commander of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, Englanddocumented
Brothers and sisters
Constantine D'Arcy
superseded The tree says born in 1751, in North Yorkshire. It is wrong because the 1751 is arithmetic from an age of 76 stated on a burial register, not a birth record, and nothing at all places him in North Yorkshire. His commission as second lieutenant on 17 January 1776 pulls the other way, since Academy cadets were commissioned at sixteen to twenty. Set out in full →
Donna Spencer Web Site · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Geni World Family Tree
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George Pitt D'Arcy and Maria (Catherine) Whiite
born18 FEB 1783, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England or West Indiesdied22 JUL 1849, Parramatta, New South Wales, AustraliatradeArmy Officer, Major in 39th Battallion of Footdocumented
Brothers and sisters
Anna Maria D'ArcyAnna Maria d'ArcyCatherine D'ArcyCharlotte D'ArcyConstantine D'ArcyJane D'ArcyJoseph D'ArcyMargaret Maria Isabella D'ArcyRichard d'Arcy
superseded The tree says two marriages, both at Chatham in 1810 — to “Maria (Catherine) Whiite” and to “Maria or Mary Le Meassier”. It is wrong because the Salisbury and Winchester Journal of 23 September 1805 announces the marriage of “Captain George d'Arcy”, son of “Lieut Colonel d'Arcy”, to “Miss Ludlam”. Le Mesurier was that bride's mother's maiden name, which is how it entered the tree as her own. The second marriage was in Ireland, about 1819. Set out in full →
Australia Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980 · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe)
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George Lindsay D'Arcy and Eliza Keeling
born24 AUG 1829, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australiadied13 JUL 1901, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australiadocumented
joinsKeeling →
Brothers and sisters
Catherine Maria D'ArcyCharlotte Maria D'Arcy
Hallett Web Site
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George Pitt D'Arcy and Ida Kathleen Atkinson
born5 MAY 1864, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australiadied21 MAR 1931, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliatradeChief Clerk Railway Departmentdocumented
joinsAtkinson →
Brothers and sisters
Catherine D'ArcyCharlotte Maria D'ArcyEdwin Francis D'ArcyIda Grace D'ArcyRobert Lindesay D'ArcyWilliam Arthur D'Arcy
Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) · FamilySearch Family Tree · Australian Newspapers · Australian Newspapers · South Brisbane Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions
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Lindesay Atkinson D'Arcy and Ivy Miriam Sneyd
born15 JUL 1892, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australiadied10 NOV 1936, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliatradeClerkdocumented
joinsSneyd →
Brothers and sisters
Florence Isabel D'ArcyHilda Georgina D'ArcyIda Joyce D'Arcy
FamilySearch Family Tree
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Kenneth Lindsay D'Arcy and Audrey "Dell" Murdoch
born17 AUG 1927, Sandgate, Queensland, Australiadied3 MAR 2010, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliatradeInsurance Managerdocumented
joinsMurdoch →
Brothers and sisters
Arthur Neville "Bill" D'ArcyValma D'ArcyVivian Lindsay D'Arcy
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Ian Kenneth D'Arcy
family
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
joinsmarried: The Falco Archive ↗Stefanie: The Mazza Archive ↗Cristina: The Defranceschi Archive ↗
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Cristina Adele D'Arcy
family
The joint here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved.
A solid node is a generation this archive will defend. A dashed node is one it is repeating from the family tree and has not proved.
Where the documented line now ends
Two of the generations above have moved this week, and the movement is all in one direction: downward from the graft, upward from the records.
| Gen | Who | What is now documented |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | George Pitt D'Arcy | Married Miss Ludlam of Guernsey, announced 23 September 1805, in a notice that calls him “son of Lieut. Colonel D'Arcy” — the first record here to make him anyone's son. In Ireland with the 39th in 1820 and 1822; in the Peninsula in 1808. → |
| 8 | Robert D'Arcy | Commissioned Practitioner Engineer, 1778; married Jean Ward at Portsea, 21 June 1779; Major 1802, Lieutenant-Colonel 1 March 1805, Colonel 1813; died Chatham 13 May 1827 and was buried there with military honours. Seventeen newspapers carried it and not one named his father. → → |
| 9+ | Thomas (Francis) D'Arcy and above | Unchanged, and still the graft. Everything from generation nine upward is the family tree's, running into Hornby Castle, and this archive does not defend it. → |
And the maternal lines have gone further than the paternal one. Through Hannah Saniger the archive now holds six generations at Berkeley on parish record, back to a William Saniger named as a father in 1679; through Jean Ward, five generations at South Leith back to William Gairden. Neither of those lines is on the spine above, because the spine follows the D'Arcy name. The Sanigers → · South Leith → · The people the tree never had →
What would settle the break
Robert D'Arcy's parentage
The one question the archive cannot answer. His whole adult life is on paper and not a single record of it names a father. What is left needs an archive rather than a search: the Board of Ordnance minutes and registers, and the will of the 4th Earl of Holderness. The case, in full →
And what does not need settling
Everything below him. The Australian line is proved from a surgeon's journal, a christening register, six newspapers and a corps roll. It does not depend on the Yorkshire descent and never did. Arrival, 1826 →