Joseph D'Arcy

baptised Portsea St Mary, 19 March 1780 · father Robert · mother Jean

recordFreeREG, Portsea St Mary parish register · the source ↗

baptised Portsea St Mary 19 March 1780, SON · father ROBERT, mother JEAN — the Hampshire Genealogical Society's transcription, independent of FreeREG's

recordHampshire Marriages / Baptisms, Hampshire Genealogical Society (FindMyPast) · the source ↗

ROYAL ARTILLERY · in the officers' list from 1795, the Army List of 1798, the commission registers of 1802, 1803 and 1826, and the Army Lists of 1840–1844 — commissioned at about fifteen and still listed at sixty-four

recordBritish Army Royal Artillery Officers 1716-1899 and Army Lists (FindMyPast, index only) · the source ↗

died 7 FEBRUARY 1848 at Homestead, Lymington, Hampshire, in his 69th year · LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, LATE ROYAL ARTILLERY, K.L.S. · formerly of Priestlands near Lymington, late of Home Mead, Southampton · his will executed February 1844

recordLondon Evening Standard 11 Feb 1848 and Morning Post 3 Apr 1848 (British Newspaper Archive) · the source ↗

obituary · “he commenced his military career at THE TAKING OF ST DOMINGO IN 1793; he served also IN SICILY and at THE TAKING OF WALCHEREN; he was FIVE YEARS IN PERSIA IN THE SERVICE OF PRINCE ABBAS MIRZA, son [of the] King of Persia”

recordMorning Herald 29 Feb 1848, Saunders's News-Letter 2 Mar 1848, Lincolnshire Chronicle 3 Mar 1848 · the source ↗

death duty · grant year 1848 · court “PCC and Country Courts” · of Lymington, Hampshire

recordIndex to Death Duty Registers 1796-1903, TNA IR 27/284 · the source ↗

gazetted · Prince Regent's permission to wear the insignia of the SECOND CLASS OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER OF THE LION AND SUN, conferred by the KING OF PERSIA

recordLondon Gazette, 30 June 1818, in five newspapers within the week · the source ↗

HE SAILED TO PERSIA WITH THE BRITISH EMBASSY, AND HERE IS THE PASSENGER LIST · the embassy of SIR GORE OUSELEY, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary · “On board the CHICHESTER STORE-SHIP, which accompanied us, were MAJOR (NOW COLONEL) D'ARCY, and MAJOR STONE, OF THE ARTILLERY, WHO DIED IN PERSIA; and TEN PRIVATES OF THE ARTILLERY” · written by the embassy's own secretary, who was aboard — THE FIRST CONTEMPORARY RECORD OF THE PERSIAN SERVICE this archive has had, against an obituary written forty years later

recordJames Morier, A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816 (1818) — read in full text, Internet Archive Travel18101816Morier · the source ↗

AND HE WAS SENT TO LOOK AT RUINS · the Ambassador dispatched his suite across Persia to record antiquities: Sir William Ouseley to Fasa for the tomb of Cyrus, the Hon. Mr Gordon to Shouster for ancient Susa, Morier himself to Persepolis · “COLONEL D'ARCY PROCEEDED TO FIROUZABAD, WHERE WE HAD HEARD OF SOME REMARKABLE SCULPTURES” · an artillery officer sent to draw rock reliefs, which is not how this archive had pictured him

recordJames Morier, A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816 (1818) — read in full text, Internet Archive Travel18101816Morier · the source ↗

HE COMMANDED AN ATTACK ON A RUSSIAN POSITION, AND IT IS THE ONLY ACTION OF HIS THIS ARCHIVE HAS · Abbas Mirza collected his army at the end of January and marched towards Mogan; 800 Russians with two guns were posted at the village of SULTANBOOT · “THE ATTACK, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL D'ARCY, TOOK PLACE IN THE MORNING. The Russians, in negligent confidence, were surprised to see A WELL-DIRECTED FIRE OF GRAPE open upon them, WHICH IN A SHORT TIME KILLED 300 OF THEIR MEN; and finding that they had a more skilful enemy to cope with than before, they shut themselves up within the walls of the village; where, after a little negociation, THEY CAPITULATED. ONE OF THE ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION WAS, THAT THEIR HEADS WERE NOT TO BE CUT OFF” · the Persians first reported 2,000 killed and 5,000 taken, and admitted to Morier that they had inflated it because “THIS IS THE FIRST TIME OUR TROOPS HAVE MADE ANY STAND AT ALL AGAINST THE RUSSIANS” · THE PASSAGE AS READ CARRIES NO YEAR: thirty thousand characters before it hold no date, and the book covers 1810 to 1816, so this archive does not put a year on it

recordJames Morier, A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816 (1818) — read in full text, Internet Archive Travel18101816Morier · the source ↗

AND THE INDEX FOUND HIM AGAIN, FOR THE SECOND TIME IN ONE DAY · a full-text search of Morier matched ONE instance of the surname — THE INDEX ENTRY “D'Arcy, Colonel, 2. 68. 186” · all three body passages were missed because the book sets his name in LOWER CASE, “d'Arcy”, and the pattern required a capital D · earlier the same day Porter's Copenhagen page had been missed over a LEFT versus RIGHT single quotation mark · TWO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS, TWO MISSED PAGES, AND THE INDEX RIGHT BOTH TIMES

recordJames Morier, A Second Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816 (1818) — read in full text, Internet Archive Travel18101816Morier · the source ↗

HE WAS THE EMBASSY'S ARTIST, AND SIX PLATES OF A SCHOLARLY WORK ARE HIS · Ouseley's preface: “THE PLATES WHICH CONTRIBUTE MOST HIGHLY TO THE EMBELLISHMENT OF THIS VOLUME have been engraved from drawings made by MY ACCOMPLISHED AND AMIABLE FRIEND, who, while these pages were in the press, has received the reward of promotion due to his services, and is mentioned in the second volume under the title of COLONEL D'ARCY. Those plates are numbered II. IV. V. XI. XVIII, and XX” · the engravings are signed “Colonel D'Arcy del.” · they are the Ambassador's house at RIO DE JANEIRO, a NAUTCH DANCE, the cave temples at ELEPHANTA — “portraits of some gentlemen, actually present, which Major D'Arcy has introduced, sufficiently indicate the relative proportions” — a WELL NEAR BUSHEHR with mount Halilah behind it, the great Sasanian sculpture at SHAPUR, and a mountain pass

recordSir William Ouseley, Travels in Various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia (1819-1823), vols I-III — read in full text, Internet Archive dli.ministry.06851, in.ernet.dli.2015.502888, dli.ministry.06853 · the source ↗

AND OUSELEY PREFERRED HIS DRAWING TO HIS OWN · at the monument he calls the grave of Solomon's Mother: “I sketched its general appearance FROM THE SAME SPOT WHERE COLONEL D'ARCY HAD MADE A VIEW; and he having favoured me with his drawing, the reader will, no doubt, be pleased that I HAVE PREFERRED IT TO MY OWN, as the subject of Pl. LI” · elsewhere “Major D'Arcy, who delineated them on the spot, has been, AS USUAL, MOST SUCCESSFUL”

recordSir William Ouseley, Travels in Various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia (1819-1823), vols I-III — read in full text, Internet Archive dli.ministry.06851, in.ernet.dli.2015.502888, dli.ministry.06853 · the source ↗

HE DID EPIGRAPHIC FIELDWORK TOO · of a Pahlavi inscription cut between a Sasanian prince and queen: “ALTHOUGH ASSISTED BY MAJOR D'ARCY IN IMPRESSING EVERY FORM OF THE LETTERS ON PAPER SLIGHTLY WETTED for the purpose, and applied to the very stone, so much effaced and corroded was the inscription that I cannot lay a satisfactory imitation of it before the reader” · and at Isfahan he drew the poet KAZEM WALEH, aged eighty and composing his own epitaph, who objected until flattered, then “tried them all on his head, and when satisfied with one as sufficiently becoming, SAT MOST COMPLACENTLY WHILE COLONEL D'ARCY FINISHED AN ADMIRABLE LIKENESS”

recordSir William Ouseley, Travels in Various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia (1819-1823), vols I-III — read in full text, Internet Archive dli.ministry.06851, in.ernet.dli.2015.502888, dli.ministry.06853 · the source ↗

THE DAY HE ENTERED ABBAS MIRZA'S SERVICE, WHICH IS WHY HIS SON WAS CALLED ABBAS KOOLY · NOVEMBER 1811, at Tehran · Captain Lindesay arrived from Tabriz, “where he had commanded, and admirably trained, according to the English discipline, A TROOP OF PERSIAN HORSE-ARTILLERY, IN THE SERVICE OF ABBAS MIRZA” · “It was the Ambassador's wish, IN CONSEQUENCE OF THAT PRINCE'S REQUEST, to have immediately sent MAJOR D'ARCY AND MAJOR STONE, along with Captain Lindesay to Tabriz; BUT THE KING WOULD NOT CONSENT that any of those officers should leave Tehran WITHOUT KHELAATS, OR DRESSES OF HONOUR” · they were duly “honoured by the king with khelaats… and PROCEEDED TO JOIN THE ARMY OF ABBAS MIRZA, THE PRINCE ROYAL, AT TABRIZ”

recordSir William Ouseley, Travels in Various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia (1819-1823), vols I-III — read in full text, Internet Archive dli.ministry.06851, in.ernet.dli.2015.502888, dli.ministry.06853 · the source ↗

AND AT TABRIZ HE COMMANDED THE BRITISH OFFICERS · Ouseley, June 1812: “I was accommodated with a room at the house of MY FRIEND MAJOR D'ARCY, WHO, AS SENIOR OFFICER, COMMANDED IN THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT” · the others at Tabriz were Major Stone, MAJOR CHRISTIE, Captain Lindesay, Lieutenant George Willock and Mr Campbell the Prince's surgeon · two RUSSIAN envoys sent to treat with the Ambassador LODGED IN D'ARCY'S HOUSE, as did a French officer · on 23 JUNE 1812 an earthquake shook the table Ouseley was writing at in that house, and D'Arcy told him of an earlier one that killed eighty thousand and threw up “several hills of sulphur and arsenick” · Ouseley left for Constantinople FROM D'ARCY'S HOUSE on 1 JULY 1812

recordSir William Ouseley, Travels in Various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia (1819-1823), vols I-III — read in full text, Internet Archive dli.ministry.06851, in.ernet.dli.2015.502888, dli.ministry.06853 · the source ↗

ONE DATE IN THESE VOLUMES DOES NOT ADD UP AND IS NOT BEING SMOOTHED · a footnote in volume I says the Firuzabad sculptures “were examined IN THE SUMMER OF 1814, by MAJOR D'ARCY, WHO WENT FROM SHIRAZ TO FIRUZABAD, while Mr Gordon, Major Stone, and I were detached by the Ambassador into different parts of Persia” · BUT the narrative places that dispersal in 1811, and OUSELEY HIMSELF LEFT PERSIA ON 1 JULY 1812 · either the footnote's year is a slip or a misprint for 1811, or it records a SECOND visit after the embassy had gone · THIS ARCHIVE DOES NOT PICK ONE

recordSir William Ouseley, Travels in Various Countries of the East, more particularly Persia (1819-1823), vols I-III — read in full text, Internet Archive dli.ministry.06851, in.ernet.dli.2015.502888, dli.ministry.06853 · the source ↗

HIS PORTRAIT SURVIVES, with his wife's · the plate list names “Colonel Joseph D'Arcy, R.A.” and “Lady Catherine D'Arcy, nee West”, and separately “one of the Three Aunts D'Arcy in Persian dress BROUGHT HOME BY HER BROTHER JOSEPH” — the Persian service that named his son is there in a photograph caption

recordBerta Ruck, Ancestral Voices (London, Hutchinson, 1972), list of illustrations, plates between pp.128-129 — Internet Archive ancestralvoices00ruck_0, catalogued under the subject “Dorsey family” · the source ↗

…earlier. The first record to make the join anything but an assertion. Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph D'Arcy The boy baptised at Portsea in 1780, followed to a Hampshire will: Royal Artillery, a Persian knighthood, and a death at Lymingto…

…ine months later, on 19 March 1780, the same church baptised their son Joseph. documented Joseph D'Arcy, baptised Portsea St Mary 19 March 1780, SON, father ROBERT, mother JEAN — the Hampshire Genealogical Society's own transcription…

…ay. AND THE PERSIAN SERVICE STOPPED BEING A SENTENCE IN AN OBITUARY. This archive has had Joseph D'Arcy's five years in Persia only from his own death notice of 1848, looking back forty years. JAMES MORIER WAS SECRETARY OF THE BRITIS…

…an Ward baptised South Leith, 19 July 1754 m. Robert D'Arcy Portsea St Mary, 21 June 1779 Joseph D'Arcy baptised Portsea, 19 March 1780 — named for his mother's father Five generations, from a Leith shipmaster's parish to a garrison…

…its sons into three different corps. Joseph, and the Persian officers Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph D'Arcy (1780–1848), Royal Artillery, went to Persia in 1811 with Sir Gore Ouseley's mission to reform the Shah's army, and the Persian v…

Westminster 1818 — Devon 1885 · found 9 October 2026 George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy Joseph D'Arcy's eldest son, carried on these pages for a month as two index entries. He governed the Gambia and then the Falkland Islands, and…

…her mother. Context → 02 Open The will AND the death duty register of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph D'Arcy, proved 1848 The National Archives, Kew — Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PROB 11), and Death Duty Register IR 26, indexed at IR…

…D'Arcy Anna Maria d'Arcy Catherine D'Arcy Charlotte D'Arcy Constantine D'Arcy Jane D'Arcy Joseph D'Arcy Margaret Maria Isabella D'Arcy Richard d'Arcy superseded The tree says two marriages, both at Chatham in 1810 — to “Maria (Cather…

…the Hornby graft above him nothing between his 1776 commission and his 1827 will better. Joseph D'Arcy baptised Portsea, 19 March 1780, father Robert, mother Jean. His marriage and his eldest son are documented. → The Wakefield join…

…ber 1817; the residence is the town she married in; and the date measures the gap between Joseph D'Arcy's two families, since he remarried in November 1830. Her third son Richard was born about 1824, the year she died at thirty-six —…

…med in the Lady's Newspaper of 8 April 1848 and in the census. wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph D'Arcy · aged 42 at Priestlands in 1841; he left her his property in 1844 documented Richard D'Arcy In Joseph's house, of Joseph's own g…

…is page. The plates Major-General Robert D'Arcy, R.E., C.B. Jean D'Arcy, née Ward Colonel Joseph D'Arcy, R.A. Lady Catherine D'Arcy, née West The Three Aunts D'Arcy — Jane, Kate and Charlotte One of the Three Aunts in Persian dress,…

…hree of them were born in Barbados and three of them died in Sussex. Child Life Born Died Joseph D'Arcy documented 1780–1848 14 Mar 1780 Portsmouth Lymington, Hampshire Margaret Maria Isabella D'Arcy documented 1781–1843 26 Sep 1781…

…aughter's marriage, witnessed by a brother. Margarett Maria Isabella married in 1806 with Joseph D'Arcy signing — the same Joseph baptised at Portsea in 1780, the first record of this family ever found in England . The press notice h…

…ong the transcript was. On 19 March 1780, at Portsea St Mary in Hampshire, a child called Joseph D'Arcy was baptised, son of Robert and Jean . It is the earliest English record this archive holds of the family, and it is the only doc…

…nt Baptism Date 19 March 1780 Place Portsea, St Mary , Hampshire · parish register Person Joseph D'Arcy , male Father Robert D'ARCY Mother Jean Transcribed by Ken Greenslade · found via FreeREG, 13 September 2026 The tree said Robert…

…warrant, in April 1787 — eleven years in. And his son went to the guns, not the sappers. Joseph D'Arcy — baptised at Portsea in March 1780, son of Robert and Jean — appears in FindMyPast's British Army, Royal Artillery Officers 1716…

Portsea 1780 – Lymington 1848 · found 13 September 2026 Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph D'Arcy The first person in this archive's English line, and the one it knew least about. Saint-Domingue, Sicily, Walcheren, and five yea…

…4 Georgian Britain George Pitt D'Arcy at Orthes, with the 39th Foot 1818 Georgian Britain Joseph D'Arcy comes home from five years with Prince Abbas Mirza and christens his first son GEORGE ABBAS KOOLY 1826 Convict New South Wales Th…

…s and his funeral, George Pitt D'Arcy's marriage and the only statement of his paternity, Joseph D'Arcy's obituary and his wife's name, and the Irish service of the 39th. None of that is in any parish register or census. Where it bit…

…r 2026 was Treated Portsea as a parish this archive had searched, and read the absence of Joseph D'Arcy's brothers and sisters as though it meant something. now FreeREG's transcript of Portsea St Mary is twenty-two months long. Five…

…ed 23 Done 118 Struck 3 134. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution this archive Joseph D'Arcy's three sons — two lives now documented end to end, and one brother still missing Both were baptised at Westminster and both are…