John Darcy was born in 1426, in Templenewsam, Yorkshire, England.
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.
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