Brief Life History of John
John Darcy was born in 1426, in Templenewsam, Yorkshire, England.
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Age 29
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Eamon, Brendan, Eamonn, Maeve, Malachy, Niamh, Seamus. French Gisele, Julien, Normand, Alain, Armand, Cecile, Clemence, Dominique, Emile, Gilles, Jean-Paul, Laure.
English (Lancashire) and Irish: of Norman origin, a habitational name from Arcy in Manche, France, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’.
Irish: in Ireland, this is generally the Norman name (see 1 above), established in Meath by Sir William D'Arcy in the 1360s, but it was also adopted for Ó Dorchaidhe ‘descendant of the dark one’, from dorcha ‘dark, gloomy’, a Connacht name that fell together with the Norman surname, which was introduced by Sir William D'Arcy and Sir John D'Arcy, Chief Justiciar of Ireland in the 14th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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