Searching for info on D'Arcy family.

Col George Abbas Kooli D'Arcy 1818-1885, son of Lt Col Joseph D'Arcy & Catherine-Georgiana West (daughter of Earl De La Warr-John Richard West).

Brother was Robert West D'Arcy aslo a career military man who immigrated to Australia.

George was governor of The Gambia as well as the Falkland Islands.

George D'Arcy married Caroline N.

1881 Census shows George, Caroline N, Alice Coulson at 9 Albert Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall. George is listed in the 1883 Penzance Directory-same address.

George D'Arcy died 1885 Leighton (Hartley) Villas, Plymouth, Devon. An obit was posted in the British Guiana Colonist Newspaper.


George & Caroline "adopted" Alice Coulson (1870->1901 b. Stanley, Falkland Islands to William Coulson & Martha Maguire). She was in the 1881 Census of Penzance, Cornwall with George & Caroline.

Alice possibly married William P Shand of Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland. May have been recorded as Alice Wedderburn Phillips?