The D'Arcy Archive
Part II · An engineer at Chatham, a major of the 39th · II.2Contents
7 lines

The Lines

Each line of descent this archive follows, and how far the evidence for it reaches.

This page draws seven lines, one lane each, and under each lane says what its evidence is. Two are documented, two are documented with an origin that is only inferred, two are documented from a point beyond which nothing has been found, and one is told and not read. Under the lanes are the pens: the people who are not on any lane, counted.

Skip the drawing The lines of descent this archive follows, and how far the evidence for each reaches 7 lines (2 documented, 2 origin inferred, 2 origin unknown, 1 family lore); 1 kept apart · 30 people a different stock; 20 households · 429 people not yet placed; 1 candidate join, on evidence short of a document. D'Arcy: Robert D'Arcy at Chatham to Brisbane Documented from 1776 · Robert's parentage not found; the Hornby descent above him is drawn apart 55 people on this line The direct line, generation by generation → Brisbane, Queensland — where the line settles Brisbane, Queensland Portsea · 1780 — Joseph D'Arcy baptised: father Robert, mother Jean. The first record of the family in England. [a record read here] Portsea 1780 Chatham · 1827 — Robert D'Arcy buried 19 May, entry 1571, aged 76. [a record read here] Chatham 1827 Parramatta · 1829 — George Lindsay D'Arcy born, the Parramatta end of the crossing. [a record read here] Parramatta 1829 Brisbane · 1864 — George Pitt D'Arcy born at Brisbane. [a record read here] Brisbane 1864 Hornby: the descent the tree claims above Robert D'Arcy Family lore · unevidenced: a legitimate descent from the 4th Earl is excluded by the peerage record 108 people on this line The Hornby claim → Robert D'Arcy, Chatham — the join the tree makes and no record supports Robert D'Arcy, Chatham Hornby Castle · 1570 — Conyers (of Hornby Castle) D'Arcy: the tree's earliest on this line. [family tree, unverified] Hornby Castle 1570 St James's Palace · 1681 — Thomas (Francis) D'Arcy, said to be born here: the one link above Robert, with no record. [disputed] St James's Palace 1681 Saniger: Berkeley, Gloucestershire Documented 1679–1804 · origin not found: the deepest William is a name in a register 21 people on this line Six generations at Berkeley → Bristol, the Wakefield lane — Hannah marries James Wakefield, 17 October 1831 Bristol, the Wakefield lane Berkeley · 1679 — William Saniger baptised 12 October, father William. [a record read here] Berkeley 1679 Berkeley · 1744 — Thomas Saniger baptised 23 August, father Thomas. [a record read here] Berkeley 1744 Berkeley · 1769 — Thomas marries Catherine Cotton on 10 April; John is christened five weeks later. [a record read here] Berkeley 1769 Berkeley · 1804 — Hannah baptised as SANIGOR, 18 August: the last link, found under another spelling. [a record read here] Berkeley 1804 Wakefield: Stroud, Bristol, Brisbane Documented 1806–1857 · James's baptism names his parents 10 people on this line The Wakefields → The Sneyd lane, Brisbane — Miriam Wakefield marries William Hartley Sneyd, 1859 The Sneyd lane, Brisbane Stroud · 1806 — James Wakefield baptised 6 April: father Richard, mother Elizabeth Webb. [a record read here] Stroud 1806 Bristol · 1841 — Drivers Fields, St Paul: James, a mason journeyman, with Hannah and three children. [a record read here] Bristol 1841 Brisbane · 1854 — Miriam Wakefield, fourteen, lands on the General Hewitt with her father and mother and five brothers and sisters; James dies in 1857. [a record read here] Brisbane 1854 Sneyd: Madeley and Hanley to Brisbane Documented 1811–1885 · origin inferred: the 1781 Madeley baptism is the best candidate, not proved 102 people on this line The Sneyds of the Potteries → Boulia, Queensland — Ivy Miriam Sneyd's people Boulia, Queensland Madeley · 1781 — Samuel Sneyd baptised 4 June, father William: the best candidate for the Hanley grocer, not proved. [inferred] Madeley 1781 Hanley · 1811 — Samuel Charles Sneyd christened 28 April, son of Samuel. [a record read here] Hanley 1811 New South Wales · 1832 — Samuel Charles Sneyd sails with the 4th (King's Own) Regiment. [a record read here] New South Wales 1832 Brisbane · 1885 — Samuel Charles Sneyd dies at Enoggera, 4 July; Governor of Brisbane Gaol from 1859. [a record read here] Brisbane 1885 Atkinson: Limerick to Wickham Terrace Documented 1832–1906 · five generations above rest on the tree alone 22 people on this line The Atkinsons → Brisbane, Queensland — Ida Kathleen Atkinson marries George Pitt D'Arcy, 1888 Brisbane, Queensland Limerick · 1725 — Richard Atkinson: the tree's earliest on this line; no record read. [family tree, unverified] Limerick 1725 Limerick · 1832 — Paul Cole Atkinson christened 9 July, St Mary's Cathedral: the record that names Richard and Anne. [a record read here] Limerick 1832 Brisbane · 1864 — Paul Cole Atkinson installs the first organ at All Saints' Wickham Terrace, on 3 August. [a record read here] Brisbane 1864 Murdoch: St Quivox, Ayrshire, to Toowoomba Documented from 1854 · Scottish statutory register names the parents of William 20 people on this line The Murdochs → Toowoomba, Queensland — Audrey "Dell" Murdoch marries Kenneth Lindsay D'Arcy, 1952 Toowoomba, Queensland Avondale · 1854 — Francis Murdoch marries Marion Watt on 6 May: 1854, not the 1853 the tree carries. [a record read here] Avondale 1854 St Quivox · 1856 — William Murdoch born 7 October; the statutory register names Francis Murdoch and Marion Watt. [a record read here] St Quivox 1856 Gympie · 1894 — William James Fraser Murdoch born at Gympie, Queensland: the generation that emigrated has arrived. [family tree, unverified] Gympie 1894 the tree joins these at Robert D'Arcy; no record does — a candidate join, on evidence short of a document the tree joins these at Robert D'Arcy; no record does A different stock of the name Sneyd: the Keele descent· 1 kept apart · 30 people The Sneyds of Keele Hall — behind a single link, found wrong The Sneyds of Keele Hall The tree hangs these people on a William Sneyd baptised at Madeley in 1742. The register names a different father. Tested and disproved; kept on thesite, because a disproved claim published is worth more than a disproved claim deleted. Families the archive follows and has not yet drawn as a line· 20 households · 429 people Atwell (34) — 34 people published under the name Atwell (34) Rossiter (9) — 9 people published under the name Rossiter (9) Blum (8) — 8 people published under the name Blum (8) Creech (5) — 5 people published under the name Creech (5) Keeling (3) — 3 people published under the name Keeling (3) Watt (3) — 3 people published under the name Watt (3) Wright (3) — 3 people published under the name Wright (3) Matson (2) — 2 people published under the name Matson (2) Cotton (17) — 17 people published under the name Cotton (17) Sutton (11) — 11 people published under the name Sutton (11) von der Pfalz (13) — 13 people published under the name von der Pfalz (13) Howard (14) — 14 people published under the name Howard (14) von Degenfeld (8) — 8 people published under the name von Degenfeld (8) Schomberg (8) — 8 people published under the name Schomberg (8) Kent (10) — 10 people published under the name Kent (10) Stuart (8) — 8 people published under the name Stuart (8) Jones (6) — 6 people published under the name Jones (6) Ward (3) — 3 people published under the name Ward (3) Blackbourne (4) — 4 people published under the name Blackbourne (4) All other names (260) — relatives named beside the line, and ancestors whose name has no page of its own All other names (260) Each of these is a name the direct line carries or a marriage brings in, and most have a page of their own. None is drawn as a lane because thearchive has not stated, for it, how far its evidence reaches. The people are counted, not listed.

D'Arcy: Robert D'Arcy at Chatham to Brisbane

Documented from 1776 · Robert's parentage not found; the Hornby descent above him is drawn apart

55 people on this line

  1. Portsea · 1780
  2. Chatham · 1827
  3. Parramatta · 1829
  4. Brisbane · 1864

Went on to Brisbane, Queensland

The direct line, generation by generation →

Hornby: the descent the tree claims above Robert D'Arcy

Family lore · unevidenced: a legitimate descent from the 4th Earl is excluded by the peerage record

108 people on this line

  1. Hornby Castle · 1570 (family tree, unverified)
  2. St James's Palace · 1681 (disputed)

Went on to Robert D'Arcy, Chatham

The Hornby claim →

Saniger: Berkeley, Gloucestershire

Documented 1679–1804 · origin not found: the deepest William is a name in a register

21 people on this line

  1. Berkeley · 1679
  2. Berkeley · 1744
  3. Berkeley · 1769
  4. Berkeley · 1804

Went on to Bristol, the Wakefield lane

Six generations at Berkeley →

Wakefield: Stroud, Bristol, Brisbane

Documented 1806–1857 · James's baptism names his parents

10 people on this line

  1. Stroud · 1806
  2. Bristol · 1841
  3. Brisbane · 1854

Went on to The Sneyd lane, Brisbane

The Wakefields →

Sneyd: Madeley and Hanley to Brisbane

Documented 1811–1885 · origin inferred: the 1781 Madeley baptism is the best candidate, not proved

102 people on this line

  1. Madeley · 1781 (inferred)
  2. Hanley · 1811
  3. New South Wales · 1832
  4. Brisbane · 1885

Went on to Boulia, Queensland

The Sneyds of the Potteries →

Atkinson: Limerick to Wickham Terrace

Documented 1832–1906 · five generations above rest on the tree alone

22 people on this line

  1. Limerick · 1725 (family tree, unverified)
  2. Limerick · 1832
  3. Brisbane · 1864

Went on to Brisbane, Queensland

The Atkinsons →

Murdoch: St Quivox, Ayrshire, to Toowoomba

Documented from 1854 · Scottish statutory register names the parents of William

20 people on this line

  1. Avondale · 1854
  2. St Quivox · 1856
  3. Gympie · 1894 (family tree, unverified)

Went on to Toowoomba, Queensland

The Murdochs →

Candidate joins, not documents

A different stock of the name Sneyd: the Keele descent · 1 kept apart · 30 people

The tree hangs these people on a William Sneyd baptised at Madeley in 1742. The register names a different father. Tested and disproved; kept on the site, because a disproved claim published is worth more than a disproved claim deleted.

Families the archive follows and has not yet drawn as a line · 20 households · 429 people

Each of these is a name the direct line carries or a marriage brings in, and most have a page of their own. None is drawn as a lane because the archive has not stated, for it, how far its evidence reaches. The people are counted, not listed.

Click or tab any dot — the stops tell you what the document behind them says, and the destinations on the right tell their own story and link to it. Click a second time to go there.
Each lane is one line, with a status that says how far its evidence reaches. Hover or tab any dot to see what it rests on. A dot drawn hollow and dashed is not read from a record.
D'Arcy: Robert D'Arcy at Chatham to Brisbane — 51 people on this line
Hornby: the descent the tree claims above Robert D'Arcy — 106 people on this line
Saniger: Berkeley, Gloucestershire — 17 people on this line
Wakefield: Stroud, Bristol, Brisbane — 8 people on this line
Sneyd: Madeley and Hanley to Brisbane — 100 people on this line
Atkinson: Limerick to Wickham Terrace — 20 people on this line
Murdoch: St Quivox, Ayrshire, to Toowoomba — 17 people on this line
A different stock of the name Sneyd: the Keele descent — 30 people

How to read a lane

The line of small capitals under each lane title is the status, and it is a statement about evidence: how far back a lane reaches on documents, not how interesting it is.

  • Documented 1806–1857 · James's baptism names his parents, as on the Wakefield lane: every step on the lane, its beginning included, rests on a record, over those years.
  • Documented 1811–1885 · origin inferred: the 1781 Madeley baptism is the best candidate, not proved, as on the Sneyd lane: documented over those years; where the line came from is inferred, and the words say to what.
  • Documented from 1776 · Robert's parentage not found; the Hornby descent above him is drawn apart, as on the D'Arcy lane: documented over those years; where it came from has not been found.
  • Family lore · unevidenced: a legitimate descent from the 4th Earl is excluded by the peerage record, as on the Hornby lane: nothing on the lane is documented. It is told, not read, and it has no years.

A dot drawn hollow and dashed is not read from a record: it rests on the family tree, on an inference, or on a claim this archive disputes. Each dot links to the person it is about, not to the top of a page, and each lane lists, beneath the drawing, the people of the name that the published tree joins to it.

What stands on each lane, and what does not

LaneStatusDocumentedPeople
D'Arcy: Robert D'Arcy at Chatham to Brisbane Origin not found from 1776 55
Hornby: the descent the tree claims above Robert D'Arcy Family lore no years claimed 108
Saniger: Berkeley, Gloucestershire Origin not found 1679–1804 21
Wakefield: Stroud, Bristol, Brisbane Documented 1806–1857 10
Sneyd: Madeley and Hanley to Brisbane Origin inferred 1811–1885 102
Atkinson: Limerick to Wickham Terrace Origin inferred 1832–1906 22
Murdoch: St Quivox, Ayrshire, to Toowoomba Documented from 1854 20

338 dead and published people stand on a lane; 459 stand in a pen. Nobody stands in two places, and no living person is listed anywhere on this page.

What this page does not decide

A status is a research call, and it is made from what the archive's own pages say. The descent claimed above Robert D'Arcy is drawn apart from the line below him, and joined to it only by a dotted bridge, because the tree makes that join and no record does. The Keele descent is not a lane at all: it was tested and found wrong, and stands in a pen of its own. Families that this archive follows and has a page for, but has not yet stated an evidence for, are counted in the last pen rather than drawn.