The D'Arcy Archive
1598–1689

Conyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy

Earl of Holdernesse ( 1st

DisputedReached only through a single unevidenced link. The archive searched for it and found nothing; a legitimate male descent is excluded by the peerage record. What was tested →

Conyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy1598–1689generation — of the tree, above the Hornby graft
marriedGrace Rokeby1595–1658tree · above the Hornby graft
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested above a graft this archive rejects

None of the 14 relationships shown here is written in a record this archive has read. Every one comes from the family tree. That is not a claim that they are wrong — it is a statement about what has been checked, and on this site the difference is the point. How claims are labelled →

14 of these links sit above a graft. The archive has tested the join they hang from and rejected it — the D'Arcys of Hornby Castle are unevidenced, the Sneyds of Keele Hall disproved. The people are drawn because the tree carries them, and struck through because nothing attaches them to this family. Both grafts, in full →

The record

Born24 JAN 1598Hornby Castle, North Riding, Yorkshire, England
Died14 JUN 1689Hornby Castle, North Riding, Yorkshire, England
Buried—Hornby, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England
TradeEarl of Holdernesse ( 1st

direct line

Counted here with the D'Arcy family · that family →

Family

Parents

Conyers (of Hornby Castle) D'arcy · Dorothy Bellasyse

Married

Grace Rokeby · 14 OCT 1616 at Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, Yorkshire

Brothers and sisters

Margaret D'Arcy (1594–1668) · Dorothy D'Arcy (1597–1666) · Barbara Conyers D'Arcy (1600–1696) · Isabel D'Arcy (b. 1609) · Elizabeth D'Arcy (1610–1729) · Grace D'Arcy (1611–1680) · Philadelphia D'ARCY (1619–1627) · Edward D'ARCY (1620–1621) · Mary D'Arcy (b. 1624)

Children

Conyers, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy (1621–1692) · Grace D'Arcy (1633–1657)

Where this comes from

above a graft This person reaches the family only through the Hornby join, which this archive has tested and rejected. They are published because the tree carries them and deleting a claim is not the same as testing it. The graft →

Every entry naming Conyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy in the register →

See this generation on the spine →

Everywhere Conyers appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutConyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy in prose, gathered automatically — 3 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 →

Twelve generations, and two claims too far.

…t here will not bear weight. Repeated from the family tree and not proved. 13 1598 → 1689 Conyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy b. 24 JAN 1598 d. 14 JUN 1689 Earl of Holdernesse ( 1st × Grace Rokeby Hornby Castle, North Riding, Yorkshire, England married 14…

The Spine

…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 D…

Blood relatives

…pt. The links do not — here they are. Parents: Thomas Darcy · Elizabeth Conyers Children: Conyers 1st Earl of Holderness 8th Lord Darcy de Knayth 5th Lord Conyers D'arcy · Anne Darcy · Barbara Conyers D'Arcy · Dorothy D'Arcy · Edward D'ARCY · Elizabeth D'Arcy · Grace D'Arcy · Henry D"arcy · Isabel…

Sources attached in the tree

  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1500133_OYYV7FPFU44MFTURIADGVLEWQW2LDOI_OYYV7FPFU44MFTURIADGVLEWQW2LDOI/conyers-1st-earl-of-holderness-8th-lord-darcy-de-knayth
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1000745_OYYV6KV5GUX3TNTGI6PZ64PSWO3Q2TY_OYYV6KV5GUX3TNTGI6PZ64PSWO3Q2TY/conyers-darcy-1st-earl-of-holderness-8th-lord-darcy-de
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-3500469_OYYV7QHLL234NMVMJDEPCGHPZRDFDCQ_OYYV7QHLL234NMVMJDEPCGHPZRDFDCQ/lord-conyers-holderness-darcy
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1504220_OYYV7G2DLILX2HVX7UGI7YR76BNGVHA_OYYV7G2DLILX2HVX7UGI7YR76BNGVHA/lord-conyers-holderness-darcy-1st-earl-of-holderness-8th-lord

These are the citations the family tree carries. Where this archive has checked one against the original, it says so on the relevant page. Method →

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