The Brotton 3 Line

A three generation family associated with Brotton

The Story of the Brotton 3 Line

John Farndale, born in 1772, was the father of 8. The family lived at Kilton and some moved to the coast and Marske. The family also founded the Stockton 1 Line, the Stockton 2 Line and the Loftus 2 Line.

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				The Loftus 1 Line
				John Farndale 27 October 1772 to 1842 Married Jane Pybus at Skelton on 23 December 1794 Loftus, Brotton, Whitby FAR00196
John Farndale 27 March 1796 to October 1868 Married Elizabeth Wallace Stockton, Brotton, Kildate, Barnby, Roxby, Whitby, Kirkleatham FAR00230	Jane Farndale 2 December 1798 to ? Brotton FAR00239	William Farndale 9 August 1801 to 23 February 1876 Married Jane Scott Agricultural labourer, a farmer of 35 acres and later a cartman Note the tragedy of his three daughters who died young, each leaving their own young children with their widowed mother Brotton, Saltburn, Kilton, Whitby, Marske FAR00243	Hannah Farndale 7 April 1805 to December 1866 Married Francis Cooper and later George Ventress Skelton, Brotton FAR00250	George Farndale 15 March 1807 to 17 November 1847 Married Ann Child (nee Ventress – perhaps the sister of George who married his sister Hannah) A farmer in Brotton who died aged 40. His widow continued to run the farm of 60 acres and three employees after he died Kilton, Brotton FAR00252	Mary Farndale 2 to 3 July 1811 An infant girl who died at birth Brotton FAR00253	Robert Farndale 27 February 1814 to 2 February 1866 Master Grocer of Stockton Stockton, Brotton FAR00254 The Stockton 2 Line	Mary Ann Farndale 27 February 1814 to 1876 Married John Porritt, a wheelwright on 4 February 1843 Brotton, Skelton FAR00255 The Porritt Family
The Stockton 1 Line			The Ventress Family
	Mary Jane Farndale 11 March 1842 to 2 November 1871 Mary married a joiner in 1865, but lived with her parents and 2 year old daughter in 1871 in Marske, but died the same year Married Henry Appleby, a joiner, on 22 July 1865 Brotton, Guisborough, Marske FAR00351	Hannah Farndale 10 December 1843 to 19 April 1875 Hannah married in 1841, she lived with her parents in 1871, and died in 1875 leaving her widowed husband and young daughters who continued to live with her mother Married Richard Agar in 1868 Brotton, Guisborough, Marske FAR00360	Sarah Ann Farndale 11 September 1846 to 14 August 1871 Hannah was a house servant by 14, who left a widower and young two year old daughter when she died aged 24 Married John Purdy in 1866 Brotton, Marske FAR00368	William George Farndale William married in 1902 at the age of 50. He was a butcher in Marske in 1911, living alone as a lodger. He died at the age of 57 in the workhouse in Guisborough in 1915 Married possibly in 1892, and then on 7 December 1902 to Elizabeth Buckenham Brotton, Guisborough, Marske 22 June 1856 to 15 February 1915 FAR00421		George Farndale 8 March 1843 to 1 August 1917 Married Hannah Mary nee Walker Miller and then Ironstone miner of Loftus, later joiner and picture framer in Middlesbrough (his father in law, William Walker, was manager of Ormesby mines) Loftus, Brotton, Middlesbrough FAR00350C The Loftus 2 Line
	The Appleby Family (Her daughter was Eva Appleby, born 1869)	The Agar Family (Her Daughters were Fenna Agar, born 1871 and Sarah Agar, born 1874)	The Purdy Family (Her daughter was Lily Purdy, born 1869)

The Ancestry of the Brotton 3 Line

The Brotton 2 Line can trace directly back to 1512 from George Farndale to Nicholas Farndaile as follows:

John Farndale (FAR00196), 1772-1842

The Loftus 1 Line

William Farndale (FAR00152), 1739-1813

The Kilton 2 Line

William Farndale (FAR00123), 1690

The Liverton 2 Line

George Farndale (FAR00103), 1662-1740

Nicholas Farndale, (FAR00082), 1634-1693

The Kirkleatham Skelton Line

Georgins Ffarndayle, (FAR00073), 1602-1693

George Ffarndayle, (FAR00067), 1570-1606

William Farndale, (FAR00063), 1539-?

Nicholas Farndaile (FAR00059), 1512-1572

You can then follow details of Farndale in the medieval period who were almost certainly earlier ancestors at Volume 1 of the Farndale directory.

You can then explore Yorkshire prehistory to give you a further perspective of the distant ancestry of the people of Farndale.

Chronology of the Brotton 3 Line

27 October 1772	John Farndale was baptised in Loftus.
23 December 1794	John Farndale married Jane Pybus at Skelton. John was a farmer by the time his first son was born.
16 March 1796	John Farndale the Younger was born in Brotton. John married Elizabeth Wallace in 1827 and was founder of the Stockton 1 Line. He died in 1868.
2 December 1798	Jane Farndale was born in Brotton.
9 August 1801	William Farndale the Elder was born in Brotton.
7 April 1805	Hannah Farndale was baptised in Brotton. She married George Ventress, a farmer of 33 acres, on 29 April 1825. They had three children. He died in 1866, aged 61.
15 March 1807	George Farndale the Elder was baptised in Brotton.
2 July 1811	Mary Farndale was born in Brotton. She died on 3 July 1811.
27 February 1814	Robert Farndale and Mary Ann Farndale, twins, were born in Brotton. Robert Farndale married Sarah Taylor of Saltburn in 1841 by which time he was a grocer in Brotton. The family moved to Stockton by 1851 and he became a master grocer. He was founder of the Stockton 2 Line. Mary Ann Farndale married John Porritt, a wheelwright, in 1843. She worked as a dress maker. She died in 1876, aged 62.
31 May 1841	William Farndale the Elder married Jane Scott at the Chapelry, Brotton.
8 March 1842	George Farndale the Younger, son of George the Elder, was born in Brotton. Could he have been born to George and Ann (hastily?) who were married the following month?
2 April 1842	George Farndale the Elder married Ann Child at the Parish Church in Skelton. Ann Child was re marrying, as her maiden name was Ventress, so she must have been sister of George Ventress who married George’s sister, Hannah. George was a farmer. He probably farmed 60 acres, with three employees from Sykes House, Kilton. This must be Sykes House near Carlin How - http://www.image-archive.org.uk/?p=56840.
1842	John Farndale the Elder died.
8 March 1843	George Farndale the Younger was born in Brotton. George married Hannah Walker of Lofthouse on 9 November 1867. George became an ironstone miner in Loftus. His father in law, William Walker became manager of Ormesby Mines. Later George was a joiner. George and Hannah had four children and were founder of the Loftus 2 Line. George died in 1917 and is buried at Linthorpe Cemetery in Middlesbrough.
17 November 1847	George Farndale the Elder died of typhus fever at Sykes House, Kilton. George’s wife, Ann, continued to head the household and farm the 60 acres at Kilton, after he died. She lived at Sykes House, with three children from her previous marriage, all Childs, and George Farndale the Younger.
1851	By 1851, William Farndale was a farmer of 35 acres at Ladgates, Brotton. Ladgates is a farm nearly on the coast, north of Brotton, close to Saltburn.
22 June 1856	William George Farndale the Younger was born at Brotton. He married Elizabeth Buckenham in 1902. He later worked as a butcher in Marske. Sadly he died in the workhouse in Guisborough in 1915.
21 July 1860	William Farndale was a tenant at Ladgates Farm, which was sold at auction by its owner, a ‘gentleman’, in 1860: (Yorkshire Gazette, 21 July 1860)
28 July 1860	It appears that there was a reservation for ironstone and minerals and a railway from Brotton to join the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway was intended to pass close to the farm leased by William Farndale: (York Herald, 28 July 1860)
1871	By 1871, William was a labourer in Marske. He later appears to have worked as a cartman.
14 September 1873	York Herald, 22 October 1873: A Report from the Court House at Northallerton for the criminal business of the North Riding of Yorkshire:
23 February 1876	William Farndale the Elder died at Marske of heart disease and chronic bronchitis. Tragically, William’s three daughters, Mary, Hannah and Sarah all died young in the 1870s each leaving their children to continue to live with William’s widowed wife, Jane. Jane continued to live in Marske, working as a laundress.
6 February 1878	Did Jane try to run a grocery business after William Farndale died, but struggled with liquidation? Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer)
2 January 1900	Jane Farndale, widow of William the Elder, was buried in Saltburn cemetery.