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Our line

The Spine Six Generations at Berkeley South Leith Not in the Tree The Hornby Claim The Name

The families

The Families The Women Sneyd Sergeant Sneyd Murdoch Atkinson

The D'Arcys

Robert and Jean's Family The Corps — Robert's Career The Obituary, 1827 Joseph D'Arcy, R.A.Daughter of the Major-General Constantine, Nineteen The Sussex Sisters Miss Ludlam of Guernsey Chatham — the Corps' Parish Two Years of Portsea

The Sanigers

One Vowel — Hannah's Baptism Hannah Was a Berkeley Woman Thomas Sinegar — Her Brother Berkeley, Gloucestershire The Sanigers of the Vale Saniger Is a Place Every Spelling of One Name The Name in Its Own Century The Muster of 1608 Chew Magna — Wrong, and a Family

Bristol and the Potteries

The Wakefields Drivers Fields, 1841 The Bristol Chapels The Sneyds of the Potteries

Australia

How They Got Here The General Hewitt, 1854 Arrival, 1826 Brisbane The Great War

People & places

The People Blood relatives, drawn Every Name The Register Households The Marriages Graves Places

Evidence

Method Sources What Has Been Read Open Questions Errands The work list Corrections What changed Documents Gallery

Investigations

The Papers The Inquest, 1902 The Search for Arthur What the Indexes Hold Behind the Paywall Reading the Archive Against Itself

Start Home About The trees Our line, drawn The Atlas The Timeline The DNA How Far Back The Other Archives

Our line The Spine Six Generations at Berkeley South Leith Not in the Tree The Hornby Claim The Name

The families The Families The Women Sneyd Sergeant Sneyd Murdoch Atkinson

The D'Arcys Robert and Jean's Family The Corps — Robert's Career The Obituary, 1827 Joseph D'Arcy, R.A.Daughter of the Major-General Constantine, Nineteen The Sussex Sisters Miss Ludlam of Guernsey Chatham — the Corps' Parish Two Years of Portsea

The Sanigers One Vowel — Hannah's Baptism Hannah Was a Berkeley Woman Thomas Sinegar — Her Brother Berkeley, Gloucestershire The Sanigers of the Vale Saniger Is a Place Every Spelling of One Name The Name in Its Own Century The Muster of 1608 Chew Magna — Wrong, and a Family

Bristol and the Potteries The Wakefields Drivers Fields, 1841 The Bristol Chapels The Sneyds of the Potteries

Australia How They Got Here The General Hewitt, 1854 Arrival, 1826 Brisbane The Great War

People & places The People Blood relatives, drawn Every Name The Register Households The Marriages Graves Places

Evidence Method Sources What Has Been Read Open Questions Errands The work list Corrections What changed Documents Gallery

Investigations The Papers The Inquest, 1902 The Search for Arthur What the Indexes Hold Behind the Paywall Reading the Archive Against Itself

first recorded 1753

Davenham

Davenham, Chester, England

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Who the archive puts here 1

Alan Holford

The other archives

The D'Arcy Archive is one of seven, each following a different line of the same family. They use the same method and the same five words for how sure a thing is.

The Defranceschi Archive Istria · Kvarner · Carnia A family written down under eight sovereigns, in four languages, and spelled at least nine different ways. Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defranceski · Defrančeski
The Falco Archive Arienzo, near Naples Nine documented generations born, married and buried in one valley, and then a migrant ship to Brisbane. Falco · Zampiello · Morgillo · Crisci · Liguori · Maione · Rivetti · Annecchino
The Blažević Archive Senj and the Krmpotska mountains An evidence-first archive for the family of Hedviga Blažević of Senj — carriers, a tobacco factory, and a wall grave. Blažević · Papić · Vukelić · Žubrinić · Kalanj
The Booyzen Archive Graaff-Reinet · Cradock · Johannesburg A Cape Dutch family that kept marrying British women, changed one letter of its name in a war, and came off the train at Johannesburg with nothing. Booyzen · Booysen · Kolbe · Barry · Downing · van Jaarsveld · Schoeman
The Lerena Archive Rosario · the Cape · the Rand A horse-dealer out of Argentina, a stable under Table Mountain, and four family traditions tested against the record rather than repeated. Lerena · Taylor
The Mazza Archive Sicily and Calabria · Brisbane Four Italian quarters — Mazza of Piedimonte Etneo, and Prostamo, Arena and Polistena of Calabria — ending in four graves in a row at Nudgee. Mazza · Prostamo · Arena · Polistena

And for children: Our Family — The same ten families, told for a six-year-old.

An evidence-first archive of the D'Arcy family of Brisbane — and of Parramatta, Portsmouth and, if the pedigree holds, Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Every claim carries its confidence, or is marked as unproven. Living people are excluded from this build as people — no page, no dates, no birthplace, and no name where it would stand as somebody's spouse, parent or child. This archive drops them at the boundary, before the data is ever written. 6 are named on purpose — as the authors of a eulogy and as the reason this archive exists — each with the owner's recorded confirmation. The rule and its six exceptions →

This archive joins the others through a marriage in the present generation, which is not published because the people in it are alive. How many archives there are, and which, is said once — by the ring above this line, which every archive reads from one shared file so the count cannot drift. This paragraph used to give its own number and had fallen a whole archive behind it.

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