Constantine D'Arcy
Royal Engineer 2lt West Indies
FamilyNo record yet ties them to their parents or their children, so the relationships above are the family tree's. 6 records that name them have been read, set out on this page. How this archive grades a claim →
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The record
| Born | FEB 1786 | Barbados, Caribbean |
| Died | 6 MAY 1805 | Chatham, Kent, England |
| Buried | — | Chatham, UK |
| Trade | Royal Engineer 2lt West Indies |
Counted here with the D'Arcy family · that family →
Family
Parents
Brothers and sisters
Joseph D'Arcy (1780–1848) · Margaret Maria Isabella D'Arcy (1781–1843) · George Pitt D'Arcy (1783–1849) · Richard d'Arcy (b. 1784) · Jane D'Arcy (1787–1875) · Catherine D'Arcy (1789–1876) · Anna Maria D'Arcy (1791–1791) · Anna Maria d'Arcy (1792–1800) · Charlotte D'Arcy (1794–1869)
Where this comes from
No relationship on this page has been checked against a record — the parents, marriages and children drawn above are what the family tree says. But 6 records naming Constantine D'Arcy have been read, and they are set out below. How claims are labelled →
Others of the same name
This family reuses forenames relentlessly. These are different people, kept apart on purpose rather than merged into one. Why →
- Constantine D'Arcy — 1759–1778
What the records say
2 people in this family tree carry the name Constantine D'Arcy, and these records have been assigned to this one on the dates they give. Which record belongs to whom is set out in tools/record-owners.json, rule by rule. The others: constantine-d-arcy-1759. Why they are kept apart →
buried Chatham, 9 May 1805 · entered as Lt in the Royal Engineers
recordFreeREG, Chatham St Mary the Virgin · the source ↗
entry 335 · “Died at Chatham, 6 5 1805” · christened St Michael, Barbados, 18 Feb 1786
recordConnolly, Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers · the source ↗
burial · 9 May 1805, Chatham St Mary the Virgin · “Lt in the royal engineers” · no age
recordKent Burials, Medway Archives P85/1/79 · the source ↗
commission · Gentleman Cadet to Second Lieutenant, Corps of Royal Engineers, 1 Feb 1804, vice Harding
recordLondon Gazette 15707 p.690, Ordnance-Office 4 June 1804 · the source ↗
commission · Second Lieutenant to First Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 1 Mar 1805, vice Dyson — the same page as his father's lieutenant-colonelcy
recordLondon Gazette 15789 p.351, Ordnance-Office 18 March 1805 · the source ↗
death notice · “the son of Col. D'Arcy, chief engineer of Chatham lines; his remains were interred with military honours”
recordKentish Gazette, 14 May 1805, p.4 · the source ↗
Everywhere Constantine appears in this archive
Every page of this site that writes aboutConstantine D'Arcy in prose, gathered automatically — 15 in total. This counts pages, not records: the lists and registers are skipped on purpose, so a person can be well documented and appear here once or not at all. How claims are labelled →
…ngdom married June 21 1779 documented Brothers and sisters · 1 show ↓ hide ↑ Robert’s · 1 Constantine D'Arcy Jean’s · none recorded Her line has no archive of its own yet, so the register names her parents and nobody else. 7 1783 → 1849 G…
…ps page had a twenty-four-year blank. Found that the tree gives Robert D'Arcy a BROTHER — Constantine D'Arcy, born Barbados 1759, died Chatham 1778, appointed to De Lancey's Brigade on 1 June 1778 — which the Hornby page has never mention…
…ives.md What it settles The likeliest of all of these to succeed Robert D'Arcy, 1827, and Constantine D'Arcy, 1805. A burial register can give an age, an abode and sometimes a relationship. Context → 24 Answered Where Arthur Hartley Sneyd…
…and Commander of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, England documented 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…
…2026 FindMyPast — Kentish Gazette, 14 May 1805 found something Any contemporary notice of Constantine D'Arcy's death at Chatham “After a few weeks illness, THE SON OF COL. D'ARCY, CHIEF ENGINEER OF CHATHAM LINES; his remains were interred…
Barbados 1786 — Chatham 1805 · found 14 September 2026 Constantine D'Arcy A name in a burial register with nothing attached to it. He turns out to be Robert D'Arcy's son, christened in Barbados, commissi…
…just reading what was written down. Yesterday this archive discovered it had been calling Constantine D'Arcy unplaced on three pages while publishing his christening on a fourth. The obvious next question was how many of the other open qu…
…. Six of them are this family. What the register holds Seven entries, in order 9 May 1805 Constantine D'Arcy Burial Described in the register as “Lt in the royal engineers”. No age given. Medway Archives P85/1/79. · Parish Register HE IS…
…1660–1898 archive.org 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 search…
…gth and has never said that the same tree gives him a sibling , off the same two parents: Constantine D'Arcy, born Barbados 1759, died Chatham 1778 , with a note reading "Lt in the Royal Artillery. died s.p. 01/06/1778 appt to De Lancey's…
…ives a rank. This one gives him a job. documented It comes out of his son's death notice. Constantine D'Arcy, first lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, died at Chatham in May 1805 and the Kentish Gazette identified him by his father's post…
…lure , and it is the same one [crossread.py](/method/) was written for in September, when Constantine D'Arcy's christening sat on one page for weeks while three others called him unplaced. Their mother still cannot be drawn. Both register…
…ael, Barbados — the Corps posted men across the empire 1800–1849 12 1805 Georgian Britain Constantine D'Arcy dies at Chatham 1807 Georgian Britain Lieutenant-Colonel R. D'Arcy, Commanding Engineer of the Copenhagen expedition 1809 Georgia…
…asked. This archive has a tool for exactly this — crossread.py, built in September after Constantine D'Arcy sat published on one page while three others called him unplaced — and it was not run. The lesson. THE ARCHIVE IS THE FIRST SOURC…
…separate searches under different titles. 43. Done — finished and published this archive Constantine D'Arcy, the only other D'Arcy in Connolly's Roll Done, and it produced the best lead of the day. Discovery returns exactly two records f…
What is written about Constantine
Carried across from the family tree, with its markup stripped. Family testimony, not an independent record — valuable, and labelled.
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