Darcy

also Dercy

This family was probably not French in origin, but Irish. The earliest ancestor we find is François Dercy, born around 1720, who has no known ancestors in Québec; he probably emigrated, and several sources call him Irish. He married Marie-Madeleine Archambault (date and place unknown - she must be a descendant of the immigrant Jacques Archambault [1604-1688] but I have not yet made the connection).

François Dercy or Darcy and his wife Madeleine were the parents of at least one son, Barnabé (again, usually an Irish name), born about 1748, who married (as her second husband) Marie-Madeleine Filteau or Fecteau. Their children: Marie-Anne (married François Amiel and Jean-Louis Bougret); Marie-Madeleine (1770-1772); Marie-Elisabeth (1774-1825. married Jean-François Edeline); Barnabé (married Marie-Josèphe Roy, daughter of Jacques Roy dit Chouigny and Marguérite Marié); Marie-Louise (1778, married Jacques Roy dit Chouigny, son of the same parents); Pierre-Antoine (1780-1782); Marie-Agathe (1782-1837, married Jean-Baptiste Roy dit Chouigny, still another son of the same parents); Pierre (1788-1789); Jean-Louis (1791, married Charlotte Guay); and Marie-Josèphe (1798). All these children were born in St-Denis-sur-Richelieu. The town had a pottery in the early nineteenth century; above is one of its products.

The daughter of Jean-Baptiste and Agathe Roy was Louise Roy, maternal grandmother of Joseph Arthur Martin.