The Bishop Wilton Line

The Lane Fox estate of Bramham Park where James Farndale worked

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from William and Margaret Farndale

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This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Bishop Wilton Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

William Farndale was the eldest son of Elias Farndale of Windgate Farm, Coxwold. He and his brother Elias (and in time the family of his other brother, Jethro) moved east of York to the area around Bishop Wilton, Malton and Huttons Ambo.

The family then moved west to the Tadcaster area and became associated with the villages of Aberford and Bramham (now adjacent to the A1) and Barwick in Elmet. Many of the family were drawn to the worsted industry in Bradford and further west to Lancashire.

The family tree is colour coded to show the flow of relationships between individuals. You can also follow the hyperlinks in brown text to link directly to other related family lines and the hyperlink in blue text to reach the webpage of each individual, where you can read about their lives in more detail.

The Ampleforth 1 Line William Farndale 21 October 1788 to 1871 Married Margaret Weard (1798 to 1871) on 27 February 1816 Agricultural labourer Ampleforth, Coxwold, Bishop Wilton, Pocklington FAR00220A

William Farndale 1 August 1822 to 25 March 1899 Married Mary Leppington on 9 August 1845 Labourer and shepherd Bishop Wilton, Malton, Tadcaster, Pocklington, Aberford FAR00281

Elizabeth Farndale 27 October 1826 to 15 December 1913 Wife of a farm worker with a large family near Pocklington Married Daniel Hague on 12 May 1849 Bishop Wilton, Pocklington, Kilnwick Percy, Thwing, Millington FAR00294

Sarah Farndale 23 June 1829 to 1862 A servant Married John Simpson on 5 February 1851 Bishop Wilton, Pocklington, Kirby Underdale FAR00304

Robert Farndale 17 June 1832 Bishop Wilton, Stockton, Birmingham FAR00318

Leonard Farndale 2 December 1834 to c 1834 Twin Probably died in infancy Bishop Wilton FAR00329

Elias Farndale 2 December 1834 to 6 May 1914 Bishop Wilton Twin FAR00330

Mary Hague (born 1851, John Hague (born 1852), William Hague (born 1855, Thomas Hague (born 1860), George Hague (born 1863), Louisa (Lois) Hague (born 1870)

? Minnie Farndale 13 February 1892 to 1946 FAR00650

William Leppington who adopted Farndale (aka Farnell) 23 February 1845 to 28 November 1914 Married Ann Mary Rockett on 16 December 1869 Born Leppington, adopted into the Farndale family, and generally used Farnell, this is a complex part of the family to research! Fridaythorpe, Tadcaster FAR00364A

Ann Farndale 1846 to 1886 Married Richard Nutton on 19 May 1866 Pocklington, Aberford, Leeds, Tadcaster FAR00369

John Farndale 23 April 1849 to 18 August 1893 Married Catherine (Kate) Todd on 20 May 1872 A groom and then a worsted spinner who died aged 43 as the result of an accident Bishop Wilton, Barton le Street, East Stamford Bridge, Appleton le Street, Clayton, Bradford FAR00379A

Thomas Farndale 1852 to 1 March 1929 Married Mary Hannah Weighill on 9 March 1880 Shepherd, cattleman, farm labourer Bishop Wilton, Tadcaster, Hunslet FAR00394

Mark Farndale 9 September 1854 to 30 August 1944 After falling in love with the farmer’s daughter, he married Hannah Varley on 30 December 1874 Farm labourer and later a gasman and gas stoker Bishop Wilton, Pocklington, Barwick in Elmet, Tadcaster, Selby FAR00408

Charles Farndale 1857 to 4 July 1920 Married Mary Hill on 26 November 1881 Shepherd, farmer and publican Aberford, Barwick in Elmet, The Hares Inn, Bilbrough FAR00425A

Hannah Farndale 1859 to 2 September 1928 Housemaid Married William Scott Summersgill on 30 June 1883 Aberford, Barwick in Elmet, Bramham FAR00434A Frederick William Summersgill (Born 1885), Mary Agnes Summersgill (Born 1886), Arthur Edward Summersgill (Born 1888), Charlotte Annie Summersgill (Born 1890), Herbert H Summersgill (Born 1893), Amy D Summersgill (Born 1897)

Margaret Farndale 27 August 1860 to 1927 Lodgekeeper for Colonel Lane Fox Aberford, Bilbrough, Bramham Park FAR00445A

George Farndale 17 September 1864 to 1940 A farm labourer Married Minnie in Ireland in about 1900 Aberford, Tadcaster, Ireland (Molenan), Wetherby, Bramham cum Oglethorpe FAR00453A

John William Farndale 19 December 1875 to 26 November 1963 Married Annie Thomson on 26 September 1898 and Jane Wade in 1911 A horseman and later a gardener Bickerton, Swillington, Tadcaster, Aberford, Wetherby, Walton in Ainsty FAR00545

The Wetherby Line

Ethel Farndale 23 April 1884 to 1969 Dressmaker Manston, Barwick, Hunslet, Leeds FAR00590

George Weighill Farndale 14 November 1886 to 3 May 1917 Warehouseman. An infantryman in the first world war who was killed in action at Arras during the Third Battle of the Scarpe FAR00617

(William) James Farndale 9 September 1900 to 1953 Garden labourer and later an estate gardener on the Bramham Estate of the Lane Fox family Private in the West Yorkshire Regiment, enlisted in October 1918 immediately on becoming of age Married Annie Thompson on 1 July 1933 Londonderry, Wetherby, Bramham FAR00704B

Margaret Annie Farndale 10 September 1901 to 26 January 1988 Housekeeper Marred Ernest William Smith on 28 April 1934 Bramham, Wetherby FAR00709

Annie Eliza Farndale 21 November 1871 to to 27 July 1938 Wool worker Married Francis Gilbert Fowler (Frank) Robinson on 13 December 1902 Clayton near Bradford then emigrated to Massachusetts FAR00513A

William Farndale 27 January 1872 to 25 June 1933 Married Martha Mothersdale on 18 August 1900 Plumbing business partner Bradford, Clayton, Bramham FAR00530

John Farndale (aka Farnell) 18 September 1875 to 26 January 1949 Worsted spinner Married Hannah Bartle on 10 August 1895 in Bradford Clayton, Bradford FAR00545A

James Arthur Farndale 15 December 1877 to 1 March 1952 Worsted drawing foreman Married Florence Edith Greenwood on 11 July 1905 Bradford, Baildon, Clayton FAR00555

Tom Farndale 7 August 1881 to 15 November 1962 Married Alice Wilkinson on 18 February 1911 Machine and Iron Moulder Burnley, Nelson, Padiham FAR00573 See notes for further research on a Canadian Tom Farndale (1883 to 1978)

Mary Farndale 22 September 1883 to 1959 Married Arnold Broster in 1909 Clayton, Bradford FAR00596A

Maggie Farndale 1886 to 5 June 1965 Mill hand West Clayton, Bradford, Wakefield FAR00608A

Hilda Robinson (1907), Muriel F Robinson (1914)

Gladys Farnell (1896 to 1927), Kathleen (Kate) Farnell (1897), Lily Farnell (1898 to 1983), Gladwin Farnell (1901 to 1936), George Arthur Farnell (1903 to 1949), Frank Farnell (1906 to 1949), Hannah Mary Farnell (107 to 1996), Doris Farnell (1909 to 1977) and Maggie Farnell (1920 to 1986) Not explored further as they lost the Farndale name

Harry Broster (1911), Lilian Broster (1915)

Edith Annie Farndale 9 October 1901 to 1989 Bookkeeper/clerk at Bradford Infant’s clinic and later involved in maternity and child welfare Lidget Green, Bradford FAR00707

May Farndale 1 May 1906 to 1979 Bookkeeper/clerk at Bradford Infant’s clinic Married Harold Crowther in 1932 Lidget Green, Bradford FAR00731

William Farndale 24 May 1915 to 18 June 1978 Plumber Married Joan Margaret Georgeson in 1940 Bradford FAR00818

Wilfred Farndale 13 September 1910 to 26 January 1965 Married Kathleen Dawson on 31 August 1935 Sanitary Meat Inspector and cricketer North Brierley, Wharfedale, Bradford, Worth Valley FAR00766

Minnie Farndale 19 June 1911 to 17 August 1994 Cotton Weaver Padiham, Burnley FAR00773

Annie Farndale 1914 to 1916 Died aged 2 Burnley FAR00801

Hilda Farndale 12 September 1915 to 11 August 1985 Married John Lord in 1936 Padiham, Burnley, Nelson FAR00817

The Bradford 2 Line

Clara Farnell 1867 Those who continued as Farnells are not explored further as they adopted the Farnell surname

Susannah Farnell (possibly Susan Farndale) 1871 to 1943

Margaret Farnell 1873 to 1959

Annie Farnell 1874 to 1913

George Farndale 30 September 1877 to 15 May 1954 Agricultural labourer Married Mary Agnes Graham in 1906 Bickerton, Aberford, Tadcaster, Clayton Le Moors, Blackburn, Great Harwood, Saxton FAR00557

John William Farnell 1876 to 1963

Mary Rhoda Farnell 1881 to 1979

Mary Farndale 1882 to 1962 Married William Kendrew, a quarryman, on 10 February 1904 Saxton, Aberford, Padiham, Lancashire FAR00586A

Thomas (“Tom”) Farndale c 1885 Horseman on farm Saxton, Aberford FAR00601B

Alfred Leppington (“Fred”) Farndale 11 March 1886 to 13 July 1901 Pony Driver Pit Underground Run over by a set of tubs while trying to save his pony Saxton, Aberford FAR00605

Alice Farndale 5 September 1888 to 1977 Aberford, Leeds, Blackburn, Burnley and Pendle FAR00633A

Minnie Farndale 13 February 1892 Saxton, Aberford, Newcastle FAR00650

Alice Kendrew (1905), Elsie Kendrew (1909), Minnie Kendrew (1911), Alfred Kendrew (1916)

Gladys Farndale 4 December 1907 to 22 January 1996 A cotton weaver by age of 13. A domestic servant. Clayton Le Moor, Blackburn FAR00747

Annie Farndale 14 November 1909 to 1989 Married Walter Harrison on 6 February 1934 Clayton Le Moors, Blackburn, Great Harwood FAR00760

The Deeper Ancestry of the Bishop Wilton Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Bishop Wilton Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Bishop Wilton Line descendants. It will take you back to the earliest history of our ancestors and each box will transport you to a more detailed narrative to unlock your history.

				Kirkdale Cave A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home
				The Primeval Swamp The Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, and Mesolithic evidence of the people of the immediate vicinity to Farndale
Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) The Roman Regional Capital of the lands around Kirkdale		Hovingham A Roman Villa on palatial scale just south of Kirkdale	Beadlam A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the heart of our ancestral lands	Roman Kirkdale 71 CE to 580 CE The lands which would become the lands of Kirkdale and Chirchebi in Roman and Pagan times	The Roman Arm Purse A Roman arm purse which can be seen in the British Museum in London today, found in about the second century CE by a cairn overlooking Farndale, which will transport you back 2,000 years	Eboracum (York) The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor
				Anglo Saxon Kirkdale 560 CE to 793 CE Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Anglo Saxon Period	Anglo Saxon Kirkdale Kirkdale from its founding in about 685 CE to the beginning of the Scandinavian period in about 800 CE	Eoforwic (York) Deirian and Northumbrian York, a political, cultural and educational Hub on the European stage The Deira The people who dominated our ancestral lands	Alcuin and the birth of modern education The world of Ecgbert and Aethelbert, successors to Bede, and their pupil Alcuin, who took York’s powerhouse of knowledge to the court of Charlemagne to pioneer the European educational system
			Orm Gamalson The powerful figure at the heart of the aristocracy, who rebuilt Kirkdale and put our ancestral lands firmly onto the national political stage	Scandinavian Kirkdale 793 CE to 1066 Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Scandinavian Period	Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian Kirkdale Kirkdale in the Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian period from about 800 CE to 1066, with a brief summary of its history through to 1500	Jorvik (York) The Scandinavian centre of northern England	The Kirkdale Sundial A unique treasure whose secrets transport us into the world of the eleventh century upon which you can stare today, imagining direct ancestors who did the same a thousand years ago
			Norman Domination Regime Change	Game of Thrones 1066 to 1200 The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest	Rievaulx Abbey This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154
The Pathfinders Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places		Poachers of Pickering Forest Tales of a surprisingly large number of our forebears who were poachers in Pickering Forest. Their archery skills would foretell the legends of Robin Hood and the English army at Agincourt	Medieval Farming Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest	The First Family Tree A model which relies on extensive medieval evidence, to suggest the most probable family tree of the earliest ancestors of the Farndales	The Cradle Thirteenth Century Farndale Clearing the dale to build our new home	The Story of Farndale to 1500 The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500, to accompany the family story	Medieval Warfare Tales of archers and men at arms who fought with Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V and an observation post in the home of the Nevilles and Richard III from which to view the Wars of the Roses
Campsall and Barnsdale Forest The history of the village of Campsall north of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century		The History of Doncaster to 1500 The History of pre industrial Doncaster from its Roman inception as Danum to the end of the sixteenth century	The Vicar of Doncaster The Family of William Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster	The Kirkleatham Skelton Line	Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in Cleveland	Kirkleatham A history of Kirkleatham and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland
			The Liverton 2 Line
The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland	Transition to the Industrial Revolution John Farndale, my great x2 uncle, was a prolific writer who captured the essence of the late eighteenth century and its transition into the Industrial Revolution. The family’s history provides a direct pathway to experience these years of momentous change	Brotton Old Graveyard Three generations of Kilton Farndales in one place. A side trip to nearby Boosbeck and Skelton take you to the gravestones two later generations. Take in Wensley and you’ll find two more recent generations. Seven generations of the family in one short drive	The Kilton 1 Line	The Farmers of Kilton The First Hub The story of the Kilton Farndales, a family who dominated a village, since lost to time, over two centuries	Kilton, the Lost Village The story of the lost village of Kilton and its sylvan landscape Kilton A journey around modern Kilton, of farms, a ruined castle and a small village of Kilton Thorpe to capture the essence of the two century home of Farndales	The Smugglers of Old Saltburn Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears	The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland
The First World War Soldiers The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War The First World War The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story		The Second World War soldiers, sailors and airmen The story of the Farndales who took up arms in the Second World War The Second World War Soldiers The context of the Second World War	Transition to the Industrial Revolution The family’s history provides a direct pathway to experience these years of momentous change	The Ampleforth 1 Line	Return to the Vale of York The Fourth Hub The Ampleforth Farndales who returned south of the North York Moors to Yearsley near Ampleforth	Yearsley The home from the early eighteenth century of a large section of our family
				The Bishop Wilton Line	Wilfred Farndale 1910 to 1965 Wilfred was brought up in the community of Sir Titus Salt’s Saltaire Mills. He was an accomplished Cricketer who played with some Yorkshire greats and a social influencer in his work as a Sanitary Officer