An engineer at Chatham, a major of the 39th

Part II · 🇬🇧

Fifteen generations are asserted on the direct line and six of them this archive will defend. The documented line runs from Robert D'Arcy, commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1776 and buried at Chatham in 1827, through his marriage and children at Portsea and Chatham, to a major of the 39th Foot. These pages follow the spine, the chart, the generations the tree never held, and the household.

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1. II.1The treesEvery family this archive follows, and the two grafts that carry its claimed depth.
2. II.2The SpineFifteen generations asserted, six of which this archive will defend.
3. II.3Our line, drawnThe direct line as a chart, with every place the line stops marked.
4. II.4Not in the treePeople this archive can prove and the family tree has never held.
5. II.5D'ArcyThe name the archive carries.
6. II.6The CorpsForty-nine years of an engineer's career, every promotion cited to the London Gazette.
7. II.7The obituarySeventeen newspapers in three countries announced his death in May 1827.
8. II.8South LeithThe parish called untranscribed holds a baptism that names her father and her mother.
9. II.9WardThe name on the direct line; born at South Leith.
10. II.10Robert and Jean's familyFive children, four of them now documented.
11. II.11Two years of PortseaThe first record of this family found in England survives inside a twenty-two-month transcript.
12. II.12ChathamThe Royal Engineers' parish: a burial, and a christening eight days before a convict ship sailed.
13. II.13Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph D'ArcySaint-Domingue, Sicily, Walcheren, and five years in Persia.
14. II.14George Abbas Kooli D'ArcyJoseph's eldest son, who governed the Gambia and then the Falkland Islands.
15. II.15Constantine D'ArcyA name in a burial register, christened in Barbados and dead at nineteen.
16. II.16Daughter of the late Major-General D'ArcyA death notice that calls the dead woman Robert's daughter.
17. II.17The Sussex sistersThree of Robert's daughters, documented from the public record.
18. II.18Miss Ludlam of GuernseyA marriage notice of 1805 and a rank gazetted six months earlier.

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