The D'Arcy Archive
1621–1692

Conyers, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy

Of Westminster, Middlesex.

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, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy1621–1692generation 12 of the tree, above the Hornby graft
marriedFrances (Lady of Berkshire) Howard1627–1670tree · above the Hornby graft
1 brother or sister
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested above a graft this archive rejects

None of the 5 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 →

5 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

Born1621/22Westminster, Middlesex
Died13 DEC 1692Aston, Yorkshire
Buried—Hornby, Yorkshire

direct line · generation 12 counting back from the present day

Family

Parents

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

Married

Frances (Lady of Berkshire) Howard · 8 FEB 1650

Brothers and sisters

Grace D'Arcy (1633–1657)

Children

John Darcy, Lord D'arcy, Lord Conyers (1659–1688)

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, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy in the register →

See this generation on the spine →

Everywhere Conyers, appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes aboutConyers, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy in prose, gathered automatically — 2 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.

…cy Thomas D"arcy Ursula Darcy willam [Sir] D"arcy Grace’s · 1 Ralph Rokeby 12 1621 → 1692 Conyers, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy b. 1621/22 d. 13 DEC 1692 × Frances (Lady of Berkshire) Howard Westminster, Middlesex married 8 FEB 1650 unproven The joint here…

The Spine

…astle, North Riding, Yorkshire, England 14 Jun 1689 Earl of Holdernesse ( 1st Disputed 12 Conyers, 2nd Earl of Holderness Darcy Frances (Lady of Berkshire) Howard — m. 8 Feb 1650 1621/22 Westminster, Middlesex 13 Dec 1692 — Disputed 11 John Darcy, Lord D'ar…

Sources attached in the tree

  • Biographical Summaries of Notable People — https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-368472/conyers-darcy-2nd-earl-of-holderness-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1500127_OYYV7FPFU44MFTURIADGVLEWQW2LDOI_OYYV7FPFU44MFTURIADGVLEWQW2LDOI/conyers-darcy-2nd-earl-of-holderness

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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