1681–1721

Robert Darcy

Earl of Holdernesse ( 3rd

Parents

John Darcy, Lord D'arcy, Lord Conyers 1659–1688 tree · above the Hornby graft Bridget Sutton 1663–1736 tree · above the Hornby graft

Robert Darcy 1681–1721 generation 10 of the tree, above the Hornby graft

married Friederike Susanna Frederica von Schönburg 1687–1751 tree · above the Hornby graft

3 children

Thomas (Francis) D'Arcy 1681–1776 tree · above the Hornby graft George Schomberg d'Arcy 1716–1722 tree · above the Hornby graft Caroline Louisa D'ARCY 1717–1778 tree · 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 6 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 →

6 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

Born	24 NOV 1681	St. James Palace, London, Middlesex, England, Kingdom of England
Died	20 JAN 1721	Bath, Somersetshire, England, Kingdom of Great Britain
Buried	—	Hornby, York, England, Kingdom of Great Britain
Trade	Earl of Holdernesse ( 3rd

direct line · generation 10 counting back from the present day

Family

Parents

John Darcy, Lord D'arcy, Lord Conyers · Bridget Sutton

Married

Friederike Susanna Frederica von Schönburg · 26 MAY 1715 at Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, Kingdom of Great Britain

Children

Thomas (Francis) D'Arcy (1681–1776) · George Schomberg d'Arcy (1716–1722) · Caroline Louisa D'ARCY (1717–1778)

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 Robert Darcy in the register →

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Everywhere Robert appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes about Robert Darcy, gathered automatically — 4 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.

Open Questions

…. The birth is now documented: christened St Michael, Barbados, 18 February 1786 , father Robert Darcy, mother Jane. Connolly says "Died at Chatham, 6 5 1805" . So the tree is right about where he was born and wrong about where he d…

The Spine

…re — the tree's geocoder has appended a county in New York State 6 Jan 1688 — unproven 10 Robert Darcy Friederike Susanna Frederica von Schönburg — m. 26 May 1715 24 Nov 1681 St. James Palace, London, Middlesex, England, Kingdom of…

Sources

…— the christening of Constantine Darcy at St Michael, Barbados, 18 February 1786, naming Robert Darcy and Jane . Connolly and Edwards, Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1660–1898 (R.E. Institute, Chatham, 1898) — en…

The Hornby Claim

…Christened 18 February 1786 Parish St Michael, Barbados — the parish of Bridgetown Father Robert Darcy Mother Jane — i.e. Jean Ward, whom he married at Portsea in 1779 Source Caribbean Birth & Baptism Index 1590–1928 · film 1157925,…

What is written about Robert

Carried across from the family tree, with its markup stripped. Family testimony, not an independent record — valuable, and labelled.

Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness, PC (24 November 1681 – 20 January 1721) was a British peer and politician.
Darcy was the second (but eldest surviving) son of John Darcy, Lord Conyers, himself the eldest son of Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness. He was styled Lord Conyers when his father died in 1688 and later inherited his grandfather's earldom in 1692. He also inherited the titles of 10th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 7th Baron Conyers. In 1698 he matriculated fellow-commoner from King's College, Cambridge.[1] In 1714, the Earl of Holderness, as he now was, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and admitted to the Privy Council and appointed First Lord of Trade in 1718. He was also a Lord of the Bedchamber from 1719 to his death.
On 26 May 1715, Holderness had married Lady Frederica Schomberg (the eldest surviving daughter of the 3rd Duke of Schomberg) and they had two surviving children: Hon. Robert (1718–1778) and Lady Caroline (d. 1778, married the 4th Marquess of Lothian).
On Lord Holderness' death in 1721, his title passed to his only surviving son, Robert, and his wife later married the future 1st Earl FitzWalter.

Sources attached in the tree

Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1501444_OYYV675MR6T7BWIC2OAYSNTUKVHCALI_OYYV675MR6T7BWIC2OAYSNTUKVHCALI/robert-darcy-3rd-earl-of-holderness

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