The name, and the house on the hill

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D'Arcy was coined twice over, once in Normandy as the name of a place and once in Ireland as the name of a colour. The family tree runs the line back to a Yorkshire castle and an earldom and on to the kings of Denmark; this archive reaches a Gloucestershire yeoman in 1654. These pages set out the name, the two grafts it does not accept, the DNA that was its first check from outside the paper record, and the places its people can be put.

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1. I.1The NameD'Arcy was coined twice over: in Normandy as a place, in Ireland as a colour.
2. I.2How Far BackThe tree reaches the kings of Denmark; this archive reaches a Gloucestershire yeoman in 1654.
3. I.3The Hornby ClaimWhere the descent to a Yorkshire castle stops being evidence and starts being hope.
4. I.4What the DNA saysThe first check this archive has had from outside the paper record.
5. I.5The AtlasEvery place this archive can put a person in.
6. I.6HowardThe name on the direct line and in the disputed generations.
7. I.7SuttonThe name on the direct line; born at Averham and Mansfield.
8. I.8SchombergThe name on the direct line; born at Heidelberg, Berlin and Cologne.
9. I.9von der PfalzThe name on the direct line; born at Heidelberg and Schwetzingen.
10. I.10von DegenfeldThe name on the direct line; born at Neuhaus and Heidelberg.
11. I.11StuartThe name on the direct line; born at Greenwich, Edinburgh and Dunfermline.
12. I.12NoelThe name on the direct line; born at Himley, Kirkby Mallory and Solihull.

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