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Mr. Wyvill,
I was very pleased to find your posting through a web search. I am descended through my great-grandmother from a d'Arcy family that passed into Maryland in the early colonial period.
Recent Y-DNA testing has confirmed the family tradition which associates our branch -- through James d'Arcy of seventeenth-century Calvert County, Maryland -- with the Anglo-Norman house and the d'Arcys exiled to France with the Jacobite court.
We have never been successful in documenting the exact origins of our ancestor James in Yorkshire. Understandable, the Darcy titles passed to Protestant female lines, and those descendants have been reluctant to participate in projects revealing the existence of exiled male lines.
Nonetheless, I am sure that statutes of limitations protect any such titles, and we would be grateful for any opportunities to find the origins of our ancestor. I notice, for example, several relationships Darcy-Wyvill-Conyers, etc., both in Yorkshire and the Maryland and Virginia colonies. We wonder what records may remain in some stately homes...
Should you be interested in corresponding on the topic of the Darcys, I would be welcome any message on your part.
Sincerely,
Joseph Warner
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