Mary Catherine Georgiana (Sister Mary Gabriel) D’Arcy
1850–1927
Anglican religious. Daughter of Robert West D’Arcy of the Indian Civil Service and Annie Hewish Adams, who married in India in 1846. A sister-in-law of Amy Darwin and a friend of Elizabeth Darwin. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. A member of the Church of England sisterhood of the House of Mercy, Clewer, and in charge of the Home for Working Girls, Nelson Square, Blackfriars Road, London, from at least 1891 to at least 1911.
Sources
BMD (Birth index, Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/693/34/26), 1891 (RG12/341/10/16), 1901 (RG13/359/134/51), 1911 (RG14/1756)
India, select marriages, 1792–1948 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 December 2016)
Ruck 1935, pp. 28, 58
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Ruck, Berta. 1935. A story-teller tells the truth: reminiscences & notes. London: Hutchinson & Co.
