The Tidkinhow Line

A family of twelve brought up at Tidkinhow and many of whom emigrated to Alberta

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The Story of the Tidkinhow Line

Martin Farndale was born in Skelton and after moving to Kilton Thorpe and then Tranmire Farm near Whitby, the family settled at Tidkinhow Farm. He was married to Catherine Lindsay and they had twelve children. This is their story.

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						The Kilton 1 Line	The Lindsay Line
						Martin Farndale 19 September 1845 to 17 January 1928 Married Catherine Jane Lindsay Farmer of Tidkinhow whose children emigrated to Canada and US and many of whom settled in Yorkshire Tidkinhow, Skelton, Brotton, Kilton, Tranmire, Tancred Grange, Boosbeck FAR00364	Catherine Jane Lindsay 28 July 1854 to 14 July 1911 From Alnwick LIN00001
John Farndale 24 December 1877 to 29 April 1970 Married Elsie Maude Hammond in 1928 Miner and farmer of Kilton and Tidkinhow. The last Farndale at Tidkinhow Tidkinhow, Kilton, Darlington FAR00553	Elizabeth Lindsay (Lynn) Farndale 25 January 1880 to 2 February 1944 Married George Barker in 1903 Kilton, Brotton, Scorton, Tancred Grange, Redcar FAR00564	Martin Farndale 8 June 1881 to 11 September 1943 Married his cousin Ruth Farndale (FAR00619) in 1929. Ironstone miner for a while before emigrating to Canada in 1905 after which he became a cattle farmer in Alberta Kilton, Tidkinhow, Alberta (Trochu), Calgary FAR00571	George Farndale 9 January 1882 to 4 May 1954 Farmer at Three Hills, Alberta Three Hills Alberta, Tranmire, Tidkinhow, Calgary FAR00588	Catherine Jane Farndale 16 June 1884 to 9 September 1966 Travelled to Quebec arriving on 24 July 1913 Married William Henry Kinsey on 28 June 1917 Maternal ancestor of the Kinsey Family in Alberta Three Hills and Trochu, Alberta, Tidkinhow, Whitby, Tranmire FAR00601	James Farndale 22 December 1885 to 20 January 1967 Married Edna Adams Carpenter, Union Leader and Senator for Nevada State Las Vegas, Nevada; California, Tidkinhow, Alberta FAR00607	William Farndale 22 July 1887 to 21 July 1889 Died aged 2 Tidkinhow, Skelton FAR00625	Mary Frances Farndale 22 January 1889 to 1988 Married George Brown in 1920 A confectionist who lived near Harrogate Tidkinhow, Guisborough, Harrogate, Leeds, Low Gatherley, Northallerton FAR00634 The Brown Family (Ena Brown)	William Farndale 29 January 1892 to 23 November 1918 Butcher Served in the Canadian Army in WW1 and died of flu epidemic shortly after the War ended Trochu, Alberta; Regina, Sakatchuan; Tidkinhow FAR00647	Grace Alice Farndale 21 April 1893 to 1992 Married Howard Holmes in 1935 Tidkinhow, Huxley and Calgary, Alberta and Leyburn FAR00659	Dorothy Annie Farndale 24 March 1895 to 1981 Married Alfred Ross in 1928 and Robert Drake in 1970 Alfred Ross farmed at Skelton Green Tidkinhow, Skelton, Leyburn FAR00668	Alfred Farndale 5 July 1897 to 30 May 1987 Married Margaret Louise (Peggy) Baker on 16 March 1928 Soldier in WW1 and farmer in Alberta and Wensleydale Tidkinhow, Middleton One Row, Leyburn, Wensley, Trochu Alberta, Thornton le Moor FAR00683
	The Barker Family			The Kinsey Family	The American 1 Line						The Wensleydale Line

The Ancestry of the Tidkinhow Line

The Tidkinhow Line can trace directly back to 1512 from Martin Farndale to Nicholas Farndaile as follows:

Martin Farndale (FAR00364), 1845 - 1928

The Kilton 1 Line

Martin Farndale (FAR00264), 1818 – 1862

George Farndale (FAR00215), 1789 – 1858

William Farndale (FAR00183), 1760 – 1846

John Farndale (FAR00143), 1724 – 1807

John Farndale, (FAR00116), 1680-1757

The Liverton 2 Line

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 Tidkinhow Line

19 September 1845	Martin Farndale, son of Martin and Elizabeth (nee Taylor) Farndale, was born at Fogga Farm, near Skelton. His father, Martin, was working on the farm which belonged to James Taylor, his father-in-law. His mother, Elizabeth (nee Taylor) seems to have been James' only child and heiress. Martin was in fact the second son of Martin and Elizabeth, though his older brother William died at the age of eleven.
By 1851	At the time of the 1851 census the young Martin listed is listed as grandson to the owner of the house he was living in (ie to James Taylor of Fogga); he was aged 5 and born at Skelton.
29 January 1854	Martin's eldest brother died at Skelton, aged 11, of inflammation of the chest on 29 January 1854. Martin was aged 9 at this time. He was probably going to school at Skelton.
28 July 1854	Catherine Lindsay was born at Alnwick, Northumberland. Her father was a shoemaker living in Queen's Head Yard, Alnwick.
12 July 1862	Martin Farndale’s father died at Guisborough of empyema and at this time Martin was 17. There is a family story that his father had been kicked by a horse. For the next 14 years it appears that Martin grew up in the Skelton and Brotton area. He probably went on working for his maternal grandfather for some time, taking on the responsibility of looking after his two younger brothers and his mother.
By 1871	Martin was an agricultural labourer working in Brotton.
29 October 1875	Catherine Lindsay on 29 October 1875, shortly before her marriage.
7 July 1877	Martin Farndale, then working as a miner, aged 31, married Catherine Jane Lindsay, a spinster, aged 23 of Darlington, daughter of Andrew Lindsay a shoemaker, at St Cuthberts Church, Darlington.
24 December 1877	John Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Kilton Thorpe and baptised at Brotton. Martin and Catherine were still living at Kilton Thorpe when their eldest son, John, was born on Christmas Eve 1877. Very little is known about him. He must have moved to Tranmire with his parents in about 1881 and then to Tidkinhow in about 1883, where he was brought up. He almost certainly went to school at Charltons and then at Boosbeck. He appears to have worked in the mines locally and was involved in an accident which damaged his leg for life. He then worked locally on farms. He used to say that he remembered driving sheep from Tranmire to Tidkinhow.
About 1878	Martin Farndale aged 32 It appears that the newly wedded couple moved to a cottage at Kilton-Thorpe. According to Brotton Parish Register, their eldest son John was baptised on 17 February 1878 having been born 24 December 1877. He was born "to Martin and Catherine Jane Farndale of Kilton Thorpe, a miner." Their next child, a daughter, Elizabeth Lindsay was born two years later on 11 December 1879 and baptised at Brotton on 25 January 1880. Martin and Catherine were still living at Kilton Thorpe, but he was now described as a farmer. Their third child, Martin, was born on 8 June 1881 and was baptised at Brotton on 31 July 1881 and his parents were still at Kilton-Thorpe and described as farmers.
25 January 1880	Elizabeth Lindsay (“Lynn”) Farndale, daughter of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Kilton Thorpe and baptised at Brotton.
8 June 1881	Martin Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Kilton Thorpe and baptised at Brotton.
About 1882	Sometime in the next two years Martin moved to Tranmire Farm near Whitby since his next two children were born there. There is a family story that Martin asked his brother Matthew to go to make a bid for Craggs Hall Farm near Brotton. The story goes that Matthew returned saying that he'd taken the farm - for himself! True or not that is where Matthew went and Martin went to Tranmire, a farm some ten miles along the road to Whitby - a poor moore farm near Ugthorpe situated on Roxby Moor. The other brother John spent his life working on the railway at Loftus. It was at Tranmire that their next son George was born in January 1882 and also their next daughter, Catherine Jane, named after her mother and always known as Kate; she was born on 16 June 1884. Tranmire Farm near Ugthorpe
9 January 1882	George Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tranmire Farm. The fourth child and third son of Martin and Catherine, George, was born on 9 January 1882 at Tranmire, where his parents had recently moved to. He would be there for two to three years before moving to Tidkinhow, where he lived until he went to Canada. Like the rest of his family, he went to school at Charltons and later to Boosbeck, leaving in about 1896, aged 14.
16 June 1884	Catherine Jane (“Kate”) Farndale, daughter of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tranmire Farm and baptised at Ugthorpe. Catherine Jane Farndale was born at Tranmire on 16 June 1884. She was named after her mother. She was their fifth child and second daughter. She joined her elder brothers and sister at the little school at Charltons, but unlike the rest she (and her younger brother James) were the only two to go on to a private school at Guisborough.
About 1884	By the time James was born on 22 December 1885, the family had moved to Tidkinhow farm on Stranghow Moor near Guisborough, an improvement on Tranmire. Eldest son John recalled driving sheep from Tranmire to Tidkinhow when seven years old; this would mean 1884. Tidkinhow Farm is located 4 miles southeast of Guisborough in the County of Cleveland. It is a moor farm on the Wharton Estate. It consisted of a few acres of grassland and large tracts of Guisborough moor. The name Tidkinhow is very ancient and is probably an old Saxon word describing ownership of the hill upon which the house now stands. How meant hill or mound and it probably belonged to a man called Tydi and his kin. So it meant, literally, "Tydi's How". The young family were brought up at Tidkinhow and the other six children were born there. William was born on 22 June 1887, but died only two years later on 19 July 1889. By this time Mary Frances had been born on 22 January 1889 and another son also to be called William, in January 1891. Two and a half years later came Grace Alice, named after her mother's sister and her mother's mother, Alice Lindsay. Then two years later Dorothy Annie was born on 24 May 1895 to be followed by the last and youngest child, Alfred on 5 July 1897.
22 December 1885	James Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm.
22 July 1887	William Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm.
22 January 1889	Mary Farndale, daughter of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm. At the age of five, she went to school with her brothers and sisters at Charltons and then, like them, at the age of 11 she went to Boosbeck Council School. She would have left at 14 in 1903. Mary studied confectionary and moved to Horsforth near Harrogate and Leeds.
21 July 1889	William Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was buried at Alll Saints, Skelton, aged 2.
29 January 1892	The second William Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm.
21 April 1893	Grace Farndale, daughter of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm.
24 March 1895	Dorothy Annie Farndale, daughter of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm.
5 July 1897	Alfred Farndale, son of Martin and Catherine Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm. I remember going to school at Charltons near Tidkinhow. We then went to Standard 1 at Boosbeck. We stayed there until we were 14. It was a two mile walk each day. The headmaster was Mr Ranson. I remember Jim, my elder brother catching me fishing and playing truant. He just said "Get in" (he was in a pony and trap) and he took me to a days marketing at Stokesley. I remember the second masters name was Ackroyd. I got a fork through my leg and he sucked it out. We were always inspected as we arrived at school. We had to walk passed the Bainbridge place and people used to say that he had more sheep on the moor than he was allowed. I remember William looking after me at mother's funeral. I was crying and very upset.
About 1900	Tidkinhow Farm, near Guisborough, about 1900 - Kate, Catherine, Alfred and Elizabeth (Lynn) - Martin and Catherine moved here in about 1884. Martin Farndale of Tidkinhow in about 1900, aged 20. Kate Farndale would finish at school in Guisborough in about 1900. There is little doubt that her elder brothers were at this time talking about Canada. Grace at Boosbeck School about 1900 - Grace appears to be the first girl from left in second row - she lived in Tidkinhow.
1902	Alfred Farndale in 1902
22 August 1903	Elizabeth Lindsay Farndale married George Barker of Tancred Grange, Scorton. They had six children Margaret, William, Mary, John, George and Dorothy. But George, her husband, died just after the end of the First World War. Lynn was left with a very young family to bring up. In about 1920 her youngest brother, Alfred, went to Tancred Grange to help his sister, when he came out of the army. It was here that Alfred was to meet his wife, Peggy Baker. Lynn was determined to keep Tancred for her family. She ran the family fairly and firmly. She set all a fine example and high standards.
24 August 1903	Letter from Catherine Farndale to her daughter Lynn Aug 24 1903 My Dear Daughter I received your letter and was glad to hear you arrived all right. I hope you and your husband are enjoying yourselves and that you are having fine weather. It is raining here today. John will take your luggage and leave it at Darlington tomorrow as he is going back to Newcastle. I posted all the boxes on Saturday night that were addressed and I will send the others to you with the cake. I gave the postman 2/6 this morning and he was very pleased. We have to wish you much joy & happiness for him. You must write after you get home and let me know if you get the luggage all right. I now conclude with kind regards to you both. I remain your affect mother C J Farndale"
About 1904	Life at Tidkinhow continued. Weekly shopping expeditions by pony and trap to Guisborough to buy groceries were followed by elder members of the family going out on Saturdays in Guisborough. They went for lots of walks and met neighbours. There were horse drawn and later motor buses and from time to time a 'break' would take them on an outing to a sow somewhere. John was working down the mines, Lynn was married, Martin was a bit quiet as a boy and spent much time at home helping his father. George was working on a local farm. Kate was at home and James was a butcher. His younger brother, William, was an apprentice butcher at Saltburn and Mary soon went away to learn confectionary. Grace, Dorothy and Alfred were at home. Catherine Jane frequently wrote to her children when they were away. She often visited members of her family at Bishop Auckland. There are two postcards written to Grace, one from Bishop Auckland (25 Sep 1906) simply saying "Will be at Bishop Auckland Wednesday by train" and the other from Etherley Schools where Catherine Jane had been (6 Mar 1905), saying "This is where I went to school a long time since. I hope you are keeping well."
By 1905	But life was not easy and it was becoming more difficult to make a living, let alone realise ambitions. Martin was the first to want to spread his wings. Many young men in the district were going abroad and there was great pressure to colonise the western provinces of Canada. He was, however, concerned at the effect on his mother on leaving and this concern is clearly reflected in two letters written from SS Tunisian after he had left without saying goodbye. Clearly this was done to avoid the worry and concern of his departure. He left Liverpool on Thursday 16 June 1905. William Farndale became an apprentice butcher in Saltburn with a Mr Ormsby. He then served in a butcher's shop. Later he had a butchers shop in Charltons which he shared with his elder brother Jim. They then took another in Commondale. They began by sharing a bullock with a man in Guisborough who had a slaughter house. Later they were selling three bullocks a week and were well remembered in their horse drawn delivery van. Alfred remembered him at their mother's funeral (14 July 1911) as William consoled him.
6 June 1905	Martin is remembered as not quite as strong as the rest. He did not go away to work and was a great favourite of his mother. When he decided to go to Canada, he could not bring himself to tell his mother so he simply left home and wrote to his sister Lynn from Liverpool: "June 16th 1905 Friday morning Dear Sister Just a few more lines. I left Liverpool on Thursday night for Canada on SS Tunisian. I have had a good night's sleep. I have booked second class on board and is very comfortable. We are passing by the north of Ireland this [ ]. The ship makes a call here to take on more passengers. This letter will be sent on from here. I shall not be able to post any more letters till I land at yond side. I am enjoying the trip well so far. I hope mother will not fret is she get to know before I write. I will send a letter to her as soon as we land. I am going to do best . I am going a long way up the country. I am to Calgary in Alberta. It is chiefly cattle farming there. There is several more young men on ship that are going out from there can catch. But I have not meet any lady that is my way yet. You must try and cheer mother up. There is nothing for her to trouble about. I am as safe here as riding on the railways in England. I shall be about other 7 days on the water. I will send a few letters off before I start my land journey. I have not time write more. I want to up on deck. We are just about to land at Londonderry I believe. I must leave hoping you are all well. M Farndale."
16 June 1905	"June 16th 1905, Friday morning Dear Sister Just a few more lines. I left Liverpool on Thursday night for Canada on SS Tunisian. I have had a good night's sleep. I have booked second class on board and is very comfortable. We are passing by the north of Ireland this [ ]. The ship makes a call here to take on more passengers. This letter will be sent on from here. I shall not be able to post any more letters till I land at yond side. I am enjoying the trip well so far. I hope mother will not fret is she get to know before I write. I will send a letter to her as soon as we land. I am going to do best . I am going a long way up the country. I am to Calgary in Alberta. It is chiefly cattle farming there. There is several more young men on ship that are going out from there can catch. But I have not meet any lady that is my way yet. You must try and cheer mother up. There is nothing for her to trouble about. I am as safe here as riding on the railways in England. I shall be about other 7 days on the water. I will send a few letters off before I start my land journey. I have not time write more. I want to up on deck. We are just about to land at Londonderry I believe. I must leave hoping you are all well. M Farndale."
21 June 1905	"Letter cannot be posted for England till we land so you will know if you get this that I landed all right. Wednesday June 21st 1905 Dear Sister I shall soon get my sea trip over now. Land was sighted today Newfoundland I believe. Every body is beginning to lighten up now. But it will be Saturday morning before we land at Montreal. I have enjoyed voyage up to now. I had one day sea sick. It was awful. I don't want that any more. We have had few very cold days. It is always cold n this part of the Ocean. We saw a great iceberg this morning. It was a great sight. This is a great rock of ice. So you must know we were passing through a cold front. This is a big vessel about two hundred yards long I should think. Every body seem quite happy. There is a smoke room and a music room. And the best of everything to eat. Third class seems to be rough quarters. But they are in another part of the ship. There will be about eight hundred passengers on board all together. Some men pulling long faces when the vessel left Liverpool. I never thought anything about it. But I was like the rest. I watched England till it disappeared out of sight. I hope mother will not trouble about me. I will be all right. I thought it was my best thing to do. I had nothing to start in business with in England. I shall be able to get about £50 per year and board with the farmers out here. If I can stand the climate. And I can settle. I shall be able to start farming for my self in about two years. Thursday All letters are to be posted tonight on board so that they will get away as soon as we land. They don't [ ] to a few hours when they land. So all has to be ready. First and Second class are having a Grand On Board tonight. We shall be quite lively. I now finish. Hoping you are all well. And remain your affectionate Bro. M Farndale." Martin would go first to Calgary, where he took some land from the Canadian Pacific Railway near Trochu. He built a small wooden house, a shack, a began farming. Martin Farndale’s house near Trochu Martin’s house still standing in 1981
1906	Like his brothers, George Farndale had started to work at Tidkinhow. He was close to his brother, Martin, and when Martin went to Canada in 1905, Martin told George that if it was all right, he would send for him. This he did and George went to join Martin at Trochu in 1906. George was a tall, broad man of few words, shy and a bit moody. There is a story that before he left home, he was out around the farm at Tidkinhow when they met some poachers. They threatened his father and one went up to George and told him to take his coat off and fight. George said "I don't need my coat off to you". He banged two of them together and they all went off. George took a homestead near Three Hills, not far from Trochu and lived there all his life until he retired, when he went to live in Calgary. He lived alone all his life, remaining reserved and shy. There are many stories about him. Once he came to help his younger brother, Alfred, to drill corn. He arrived and started and then, with the job only half done, he drove himself and the drill home. Something said had annoyed him; so he left. He was known as a very upright and honest man. His bank manager used to say he was one hundred per cent reliable. There is also a story that he cared for a local girl, a nurse, who also liked him. She knew he was shy and tried to help him propose. He thought she was trying to pressurise him, so he never spoke to her again! It is perhaps all these stories which describe this big, shy man best. Certainly he was alone most of his life. He had many Farndale qualities, but his was an extreme version of them. George Farndale
28 August 1908	Martin Farndale in Calgary
Perhaps about 1910	Catherine Farndale
About 1910	The boys of Tidkinhow in about 1910 The girl Farndales of Tidkinhow with Barker children - about 1910 John, James, Alfred, William, George, Martin (inset) Willie B, Dorothy F, Mary F, Mary B, Kate F, Grace F, Margaret B, John B George followed his elder brother to Canada fairly soon afterwards and already Kate wanted to go to look after them, but they all knew that their mother was ailing. Jim also wanted to go, but did not want to leave. Gradually Catherine Jane weakened until on 14 July 1911 she died at Tidkinhow.
31 March 1911	James had already sailed on 31 March 1911. There is a long diary of his voyage. James Farndale departed Liverpool and arrived Halifax, Nova Scotia on 10 April 1911.Travelled with George Farndale. The following passages are extracted from James’ diary: I left home on March 31. It will be remembered, how we hurried to station and were just in time, also that George had gone the night before, and was to meet me at Darlington. We went down to Dock about twelve o’clock, but the boat was not in and it was about 2.30pm when she steamed in. The place was packed with people and was very difficult moving about. However they were soon ready for us to go on. We just walk past the Doctor bare headed and he looked savagely at us and we passed right on. We went ahead to find our berths, which was a simple matter. As our hand luggage was very heavy we got the Co to take it along with the others, so had been taken on board early. Very fine morning, and everybody seems in good spirits, there is, of course, no sickness as yet, but there are some pale faces and judging from myself a few giddy heads. At breakfast:- the tables all filled up, the sun is shining very brightly and is so warm and many people are sitting and lying in the sun. Personally I do not take much breakfast but soon strolled out into the fresh air and left the others behind, they chaff me a little; of course they are old hands at this business. The food is really very good, and there is everything necessary. This had been a truly glorious day, sea very smooth. About 10.30am we went to service in the largest saloon, the Chaplain is a fine young fellow, he’s a pastor going to the States and is acting as Chaplain, he gave a very nice address and the serviced passed off well and was short. We can hire deck chairs at 3/6 each, we get tickets and put our names on, they are very comfortable and lots of people sit on deck all day, some bring their own chairs, but they must be a lot of trouble. This afternoon we amused ourselves taking some snapshots, as it was so fine. Has brought a great change over us all after a terrible rocking all night everybody or nearly so is sick, half in bed including myself. Everybody is astir early, and the deck is crowded with people looking for land. It is a very clear morning, but severely cold. People are packing and getting out their baggage, the gangway is being crowded with piles of baggage. After breakfast, everybody seemed to be on deck and there was tremendous bustle and excitement as we sailed up to Halifax. Unfortunately, however, there was another large Ocean boat sailing in ahead of us and of course that meant delay. It was the “Hesprian”, which sailed the day after us. There was a rumour that she had nearly run into us the night before, amidst the fog, but she no doubt was a little too near us. The Doctor and Inspectors came on and went down amongst the 3rd class passengers. Tugboats were steaming about and after what seemed a very long wait they pulled us up to the landing stage. In 1911 James arrived to stay with Martin. He did not stay long in Canada before he went to America for the rest of his life. It was about 3 o’clock when they at last allowed us to go off and we just had to show the ticket given us. We carried our bags which were very heavy and the man at the further end of custom houses passed them and allowed us to pass out. We moved on to a restaurant in the town, where we left our hand baggage and had supper. We then found Post Office and posted letters, had a look through town. There was not much but fast melting snow; hence the slush. It is not a very large place, but has its car service. It lies in a very hilly position, right on a hillside. The trains do not come under shelter, but passengers have to go outside and get in off the ground, there are no platforms, it is just same as getting into a tram car and they are similar to tram cars inside. It was about two o’clock when the train glided along, and there was quite a stampede and those first in got the worst accommodation the train was already nearly full so many of us got in. Our party (5 of us) were unable to get together, we got seats here and there. We sat in train till five o’clock before we started; it was such a messy business. The cars we got in had no sleeping accommodation so we of course just had to sit. The prospect of sitting a week was not very becoming to us, but those were the best hopes we had. After passing further it was through I think, the loveliest country I ever saw, as far as one could see there were hills covered with green spread trees. It looked just like the pictures at the lecture at Glasgow on the Rocky Mountains. This part is well worth seeing; there is also a shallow stretch of water runs about the town. I’m not sure whether it is the St. Lawrence, it can hardly be that, but it certainly is a most beautiful sight and the sight was very fine and certainly showed it up to advantage but could see the hills towering up for ten miles and looks fine over such a stretch of land. After passing away from that lovely region we came to better land for some distance. We travelled all night at a fast speed. Last evening we travelled very fast 300 miles and arrived in Winnipeg about 4am. I was determined to see Winnipeg. Beckwith was not inclined and would go along with his party, their train was in waiting. I saw them off and eventually went off alone. The morning was very cold and frosty, the streets all frozen up, cars were running and a few restaurants were already open. I walked out a little, but found it much too cold, and was obliged to return. The next morning, it came on to snow heavily but we heard Martin was waiting at Olds, had come in on Saturday to meet us. We decided to take the first train out. However we slept rather long and had to rush breakfast etc. as our train was due at 8am. After leaving Calgary, we were soon away from the snow, into a fine farming country, I suppose very good land. This train was very crowded, many having to stand. It was a two hour journey up to Olds. Martin was waiting on platform, he was the first man I saw standing with a dog by his side. He said until the moment he saw me he had never been sure whether I was coming or not as only George’s luggage had arrived, he naturally thought I had not come. They assured me this was the longest journey I’d ever make behind horses, and I think it was. The roads were not very good being very wet. However the horses were in good condition and we started out about 11am. On this rather tedious journey they informed me it would take us till 9pm and would be very cold so we wasted no time. After driving at a good speed for nine miles we unhooked the horses, in a “Goulee”, fed and watered them. We had a great many good English cakes packed in a box, we did not starve. The next day after our arrival I had a good look round the immediate neighbourhood. Martin’s place is very good land, the whole district seems to be good and will doubtless become a good farming part. But that which surprises me most is the irregularity of the land. I had heard it was what they call rolling but that apparently means more than I expected, for I should call a lot of it hilly, of course there are no big hills such as we are accustomed to in England of course no trees, so that we can see a way in some places. Sometimes there is a hill, and we can only see a few hundred yards but on reaching the hill top we may look over a stretch of 10 yards then another and so on. I expect to see it much more level than it is. These short steep hills also make the roads much heavier than they would be in a really level country, there are some parts much flatter than this. This plainly shows you how far stock can wander without being stopped; they travelled 30 miles and could have gone hundreds more. All through leaving a gate open. We saw one day a Coyote cross Martin’s place and on another occasion what is a rare thing an antelope cross within arm’s length of us. We at first only thought it was an antelope but our belief was confirmed by several other people seeing it and had been much nearer to it than us. It is very seldom one is seen in this part but one may cross occasionally. Badgers and Gofers are very numerous; they are a sharp little thing similar to a ferret with a kind of yellow coat in winter, which changes to dark brown in summer. Calgary may truly be taken as a type of the western towns, with however the exception of one thing which is I think a great blundering oversight on the part of those who had laid it out and planned it and will always be a great drawback. This is the extreme narrowness of the streets, which are much narrower than those of Winnipeg which is of course quite an old town compared to Calgary. Many of the streets are not much old country streets in England (England is always called the “old country” here and of course is so to us) but I will I hope in spite of this drawback show you that it is a long way ahead of England. There is all nationalities in Calgary but most are Chinese, or as they are termed here “Chinks”. They have laundries, restaurants and some of them stores. There is in one part nothing but Chinks. They go about hunting laundry and bring it right back. As I write this the “old fool” who takes mine has just brought it in. He comes every Saturday night somewhere about midnight. Sometimes everybody is in bed. However they are useful in their way, especially since there is a scarcity of women. There are also a great many squaws of both sexes. With blankets and shawls tied about them and beads hanging around their necks. Some of them look very inhuman. They go round amongst the dustbins sorting out all the rubbish. According to reports, Canada is going to have what the papers term as a bumper crop and I think the moist spring, must have been favourable to all kinds of crops. There is just off the lake, a large Indian reserve been sold, somewhere in Calgary and district and land has been making very high prices. I suppose the Indians are being moved away to another part out of the way. James Farndale
14 July 1911	Catherine Jane Farndale died at Tidkinhow aged 56; she was buried at Boosebeck Parish Church. Her death certificate shows that her husband, Martin, was with her and that she actually died of fibroid pathesis, cardiac failure, but she almost certainly had TB. Alfred later remembered his distress at her funeral in Boosbeck and being comforted by his nearest brother William on the way back. There is no doubt that her untimely death at the age of 56 was a great blow to the family. She is remembered by them all with the greatest affection. Her life had been hard but she had clearly cared for them all. She is remembered also as kind, intelligent, firm and determined. There was now a great gap at Tidkinhow and the family had to do their best to fill her place. Martin was now alone at the farm, but surrounded by his family, though now five were in Canada, two (Lynne and Mary) were married and one, the first William, had died. John the eldest was on the farm and Grace, by now 18 and Dorothy 16 were there to help bring up the youngest, Alfred, aged 14. Soon after their mother's death William and Kate followed their two elder brothers to Canada. Catherine Farndale would have seen Martin and then George go in 1905 and 1906. When her younger brother, James, decided to join her brothers in 1911, Kate (as she was always known) decided to go too. Her mother had just died and her younger sisters were now able to look after her father and younger brothers. When she arrived to look after Martin and George, she met the Kinsey family of Cheshire, already friends of her brothers. Kate and George were never to return to England, but Martin did twice and William as a soldier. Jim returned as a soldier and visited again in the 1950s.
About 1912	Martin Farndale, early days in Canada,. About 1912
About 1913	William Farndale was a butcher at Guisborough before he went to Alberta Canada about 1913. He is shown on the passenger list on the Victorian, a ship on the Allan Line, departing 13 August 1913 from Liverpool to Quebec, a labourer, aged 22. He first went to join Martin at Trochu and got himself a job there as an assistant butcher. What happened next is not clear, but it seems that in about 1914 he moved to Earl Grey in Saskatchewan, presumably to continue his trade as a butcher. He moved to Earl Grey near Regina, Saskatchewan in 1914 and continued his trade as a butcher. William Farndale
1914	When the war came in 1914 three of the boys became soldiers. James joined the American forces and fought in France. Soon he was joined by William, serving in the Canadian Army who was wounded near Ypres in 1917 and then by Alfred who served from 1916 to 1920 as a British soldier in the Machine-Gun Corps in France and Mesopotamia. Tragically William died of his wounds in 1919 and Alfred did not get home from India until 1920.
About 1915	The Barkers of Tancred Grange Willie Barker in about 1915 Tidkinhow in 1915
1916	William Farndale, joined the Canadian Army on 19 April 1916 at Regina, Saskatchewan and went to France. He was wounded in action at Vimy Ridge on 13 December 1916 while serving with the 28th Battalion; he had a gunshot wound in the right forearm and was in hospital in Epsom, England. He was discharged from the Army at Calgary on 18 Feb 1918. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. After his return to Regina, he used his car to evacuate the sick during the great ‘flu epidemic of 1918. He caught the ‘flu while still weak from his wound and died at Earl Grey, Saskatchewan, Canada, aged 25 years on 23 Nov 1918. William Farndale 83795 Private Alfred Farndale, Machine Gun Corps, awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Served in France, Iraq and India. The war came in 1914 and I was just 17. I wanted to join up so I ran away and joined up at the local recruiting office at Northallerton, somewhere in South Parade I think. I joined the West Yorks but my father found out and said I was under age, which I was. The CO wanted me to stay on the band, but father wouldn't hear of it and I came out. I remember being very proud of my first leave in uniform. Then one day they called for volunteers for the Machine-Gun Corps and I stepped forward. We went to Belton Park, near Grantham for training. I joined 239th Company MGC and we were attached to the Middlesex Regiment. In 1917 we sailed for Calais and went to "Dickiebush" Camp. We were first in action at Westbrook and Polygon Wood. I remember an incident on the Menin Road galloping up with two limbers of ammunition towards the gun positions at Hooge. I was a Private but I was giving a lift to Quarter Master Sergeant Zaccarelli. The Germans started to shell us. They could clearly see us. I had one horse killed and I managed to cut him free and I then rode the other. Zaccarelli was killed; it was quite a party when I reported it. My Captain asked if there were any witnesses but there were none, otherwise I might have got something. I remember an officer coming up to me when we were under bombardment at Ypres and saying "How would you like to be in Saltburn now, Farndale?" We saw some action at Zonnebeke, Ploegstraat and Arras. Then suddenly we were ordered to Marseilles and got on a troopship for Basra in Mesoptamia. After about 14 days we were in the Suez Canal and then the Red Sea. We landed at Basra and marched to Kut-el-Amara as part of a force under General Maud to relieve Townsend. About the middle of 1918 the Turks surrendered. We hung around for quite a while. I cut my thumb on a bully beef tin and it got poisoned. I was in hospital in Kut when 239th Company left for England. I eventually got to Mosul where I thought my unit was and met my platoon commander Lieutenant Pearson. He asked me where I had been and put me in charge of the officers mess. We had some Punjabi officers at the time and they used to knock me up to try to get whiskey! Later in 1918 we were ordered to Bombay. I remember I had to take my stripes down on the troopship. We were sent up to the Afghan frontier for a while and we had quite a lot of trouble in the local bazaars. Eventually in early 1919 I think, we got a troopship to England. We landed at Southampton. I remember we were told that we could keep our greatcoats or take £1 when we were demobbed on Salisbury Plain. I took the £1! I remember arriving at Middlesborough station very late at night and sleeping on the platform. I got the first train next day to Guisborough and actually arrived at Tidkinhow before they were up! This would be in 1919. I know that I was clear of the army by the start of 1920. I wish I had stayed in. I really did like the army life. But I had to come out. Alfred in the First World War
1917	James enlisted on 31 August 1917 and was discharged on 1 August 1919. He served in the US Army in France 1917 -1918. James in Plymouth, Indiana in 1917 William Farndale wrote to his sister Grace from hospital: "Left hand of course Jan 12 Dear Sister I will try and write to you. I find I am doing fairly well but I have got a very bad arm. I was hit with an explosive bullet which made a hole through two inches wide and broke both bones. They give me very little hope of my arm being any good but I hope it will not be so bad. I had an awful hard time in France. I had four operations in two weeks. They could not get it stopped bleeding and I got so weak that I could not feed myself. But I am alright now, but not able to get up yet for two weeks or so. I may have to have another operation. Not sure yet. Going to have my arm x-rayed shortly. I want you to write a letter for me to Sister Armstrong, 23 CCS, BEF, France. Give her my address and tell her I am getting along alright. This is not a very nice hospital, but good doctors. If you send a parcel, send me a toothbrush and hairbrush. I expect I will be here three months. I tried to get into Yorkshire so you could come and see me, but this is as far as I could get. If my arm does not get better it is likely I will get sent back to Canada in the Spring, but I will never see France any more. I am awful sorry that Alf had to go. If ever he gets to France I will want to go back again. Your affectionate brother W.F."
25 September 1917	James Farndale, married Edna Adams. They had five children and James Farndale settled in Nevada, where he palyed a prominent role in the construction of the Hoover Dam, and became a US Senator. He was the Founder of the America 1 Line. James and Edna After their wedding
28 June 1917	Kate Farndale married William Henry Kinsey at Stettler. They homesteaded 16 miles north west of Three Hills and extended an existing prairie shack. They had three children, George, Dorothy and Alfred. Kate is always remembered as very strict. She would not tolerate smoking or drinking alcohol. She was deeply religious and set high standards of behaviour for her own family. There are many stories of going out to the barn for a drink or a smoke! When her husband died, Kate moved to a house at Three Hills, where she was close to her family. George married and moved onto his parents' farm. Alfred took an adjoining farm and Dorothy moved to Red Deer. Kate Farndale Bill Kinsey’s threshing set
1918	James Farndale amngst a field of corn and pumpkins in about 1918
26 November 1918	We know that William Farndale after being wonded at Vimy Ridge returned to Earl Gray and that in the great flu epidemic of 1918 he drove patients to hospital, caught flu himself and died.
About 1918 to 1920	By the end of the war, the family were well scattered. John was still working locally; Lynn was still at Tancred Grange near Scorton; Martin was still a bachelor in Canada, as was George, both in Alberta. Kate had married William Kinsay and was living near her brother in Alberta. James had married Edna Adams and was living in San Antonio, Texas; William was dead and Mary was working in Leeds. Grace, Dorothy and Alfred were at home, but Alfred spent much time at Scorton with his eldest sister Lynn since her husband had died in 1919. Martin, in 1920, was 75 and still living at Tidkinhow. Grace went away to a job as matron at Monmouth High School for girls and there met Miss 'Peggy' Baker. Together they left the school in 1924 and went poultry farming first at Scorton and then at Leeming Bar. Peggy was later to marry Alfred and had many trips to Tidkinhow and met Martin. Alfred recalled: I then went to Tancred Grange to help my eldest sister Lynn whose husband had died in 1918. I spent my time between Tancred and Tidkinhow till I married your mother on 16 March 1928 at Bedale Parish Church.
About 1920	Martin harvesting at Tidkinhow about 1920. Martin Farndale, mounted, at Tidkinhow in about 1920. After the war James returned to America where in September 1917, he had married Edna Adams. William returned to Canada where he too intended to marry, but tragically he died on 20 November 1919 from the flu, contracted when he was still weak from his was wound. Alfred returned to Tidkinhow in March 1920. But George Barker, Lynn's husband at Tancred Grange had died and their young family were unable to cope alone. Margaret and Willie Barker in about 1920 George Barker at the cottages at Scourton in about 1920 Martin Farndale at sea in about 1920 on a journey to and from England Martin Farndale at Tidkinhow in about 1920 Grace Farndale at Malvern Grace Farndale in about 1920 Dorothy Farndale in about 1920 Alfred Farndale about 1920
1920	Mary Frances Farndale maried George Brown at Guisborough. They had a daughter, Ena. Mary Farndale George Brown Mary continued to live at Leeds, but when her daughter married Crosbie Shields, she moved to live alongside them at Low Gatherley, near Scorton.
By 1921	Grace Farndale was assistant matron, Boarding School for Girls, The Towers, Saltburn by the Sea.
About 1922	Dorothy (centre front) and Grace (right front) at Farndale in about 1922 The cottages at Scorton where Grace Farndale and Margaret Baker (later married Alfred) had a poultry farm in about 1922.
About 1924	Tancred Grange, home of Lynn Barker (nee Farndale) in about 1924 John Barker, Margaret Barker, Grace Farndale, George Barker
About 1925	Martin Farndale at Tancred Grange in about 1925 - his daughter, Lynn Barker, lived there Martin Farndale at Tidkinhow about 1925 Martin Farndale, George Brown, Grace Farndale, Willie Barker, and Mary Brown (nee Farndale)
About 1927	There is a letter from Martin Farndale Senior to his daughter Grace, mentioning Peggy, undated, but must have been about 1927 just before he died: "Dear Grace I am doing well. Not much time to write. Father wishes you a very happy new year & Peggy write her. Quite well myself. Wanting to get up and abscond from here. ... from your ? father" Martin Farndale Junior travelled on the Ausonia (Furness Line) from Quebec to London. Mary and George Brown, with their daughter Ena in Saltburn in about 1927. Alfred at Tidkinhow in 1927
17 January 1928	Martin Farndale of Tidkinhow Farm died aged 82. He is buried with Catherine at Boosbeck Churchyard. Martin died on 17 January 1928 at Tidkinhow and his youngest son Alfred was with him. He died of pneumonia. He was buried on Friday21 January at 1.30 pm at Boosbeck alongside his wife, Catherine Jane where their memorial still stands. He made his will the day before he died naming his eldest daughter Lynn as his Executrix and he left what he had to his sons John and Alfred and his daughters Grace and Dorothy. Martin is universally remembered by everyone as a straight, honest and intelligent man who was always totally involved and interested in world events. He was a quite, rather silent man, of high principles and high standards. It was about him that people said "His word is his Bond" and this was chosen, because of him, by his grandson Martin as the motto for the first Farndale coat of arms, some 54 years after his death. John Farndale took over Tidkinhow Farm when his father died.
1928	John Farndale married Elsie Maude Hammond at Ripon. They had no family. Martin Farndale Junior, 40, unaccompanied, a farmer, travelled from Liverpool to Halifax, Canada on the Athenia. Dorothy Farndale married Alfred Ross at Guisborough. They lived at Green Farm, Skelton Green. They had no children. He died in the 60s. Wedding of Alfred Ross and Dorothy Farndale in March 1928 Green Farm where the Ross’s lived for their married lives
16 March 1928	Alfred Farndale married Margaret Louise Baker at Bedale Parish Church. Almost immediately after their wedding, they emigrate to Canada in March1928, remained there until 1935. Alfred later recalled I married your mother on 16 March 1928 at Bedale Parish Church. Martin was over from Canada and he was best man. It was just after my father died in January 1928. My eldest brother, John took over Tidkinhow. Peggy and I had already decided to join the 'Canadians' [his brothers Jim, Martin and George and his sister Kate] in Alberta. We went to Huxley and rented a section of the CPR and you three children were born. However we had bad luck with crops and the slump and we had to go back to England in 1935. Alfred building the Farndale House on arrival in Alberta The House that Alfred Built Alfred and Margaret (“Peggy”) had four children and their story is told as the Wensleydale Line.
About 1929	John and his wife Elsie (right) in about 1929 Alf Ross (Dorothy’s husband) with Elsie and John about 1929 At the reservoir in Bethel Martin Farndale homesteaded on Trochu town line, but in 1929 he bought a farm at Paulson and raised cattle. Ruth Farndale of Craggs Hall, 42, unaccompanied, travelled from Liverpool to Montreal.
1929	Martin Farndale married his first cousin Ruth Farndale in Trochu. They lived in Trochu, but they had no family. Ruth Farndale Martin Farndale became well known on the Trochu council and took a great deal of interest in education. He did much for the Trochu community.
About 1930	Possibly Aunt Polly with Ruth Farndale and Dorothy Farndale at Craggs Hall in about 1930 Alfred Farndale about 1930
About 1931	The Canadian Farndales at the Kinseys in about 1931 Martin Farndale George Farndale Ruth Farndale Will Kinsey Alfred Farndale Jim Farndale Martin Jim Kate Grace George Alfred Alfred Kinsey Edna Farndale Jimmy Farndale Martin Farndale Grace Farndale Dorothy Kinsey Janie Farndale
About 1933	At the Kinseys in Three Hills in about 1933                                                                 Alfred Kinsey          Alfred Farndale    Dorothy Kinsey  Peggy Farndale Grace Holmes  Martin Farndale      Bill Kinsey                                         Anne Farndale                                                  Kate Farndale    Howard Holmes
About 1935	?, John Barker, George Barker and Willie Barker (sitting at front) in about 1935 Above Tidkinhow in 1935
1935	Grace Farndale married Howard Holmes in Calgary. They had no children. Wedding of Grace Farndale and Howard Holmes in Calgary in 1935 Kate Kinsey, Peggy Farndale, Grace Farndale, Howard Holmes, Dorothy Kinsey, Alfred Farndale Anne Farndale, Geoffrey Farndale, Martin Farndale Grace and Howard’s ranch Howard and Grace Holmes Howard Holmes with a sleigh and cutting corn, Alberta, about 1935
1936	Alfred and his family returned from Alberta to Yorkshire. He later recalled We had a farm in Middleton-One-Row in 1936 and then we moved to Sycamore Lodge at Thornton-le-Moor near Northallerton in 1937. That was where Margot was born. It was too small though and we left it in 1940 after the war had started. We then lived at 117 Crosby Road, Northallerton. I was a farm contractor doing ploughing and threshing. It was very hard work and very long hours. I was Special Constable as well. Then, in January 1943, we moved to Gale Bank Farm at Wensley. We had been looking for farms for years and this was easily the best, so our luck had changed. It was then about 400 acres, but now it is more. Peggy and I retired in 1972 and we are now living at "Highfields", Eller Close Road, Leyburn." Joruney home from Canada Gale Bank Farm, Wensleydale Alfred’s wife Peggy, with the family, at Thornton le Moor in about 1938
About 1937	John and Elsie at Tidkinhow in about 1937
About 1940	Martin Farndale and Howard Holmes (Grace Farndale’s husband) at the Holmes Ranch in Alberta in about 1940 Alfred Farndale about 1940 In World War 2 Alred Farndale served as a Special Constable and was awarded the Police War Medal.
11 September 1943	Martin Farndale died, aged 62, in 1943, and is buried at Trochu. His wife, Ruth, returned to England and lived for many years with her family. He was remembered as an upright, intelligent man who was very interested in people and very good with children. He helped his brothers, George, Jim and Alfred, and his sisters, Kate and Grace, to settle in their turn near Trochu, in Huxley. His work for the early days in Trochu is still remembered.
2 February 1944	Lynn Barker of Manor Farm, Redcar died suddenly – she was buried at St Mary, Burton on Swale.
1950s	Grace , Mary and Catherine (Kate) - Farndale sisters - at Sylvan lake in 1950s
1954	Reunion with James Farndale at Tidkinhow in 1954 At the ‘Club’ in Skelton during Jim’s visit to Yorkshire in 1954 - Alfred, John and James at table, with Jim (son of James) behind.
4 May 1954	George Farndale died in Calgary, aged 72, where he is buried in Queen’s Park Village cemetery (Lot 89, Block 8, Section 1), Calgary.
About 1956	Kate and Bill Kinsey in about 1956 Kate Kinsey The Kinseys in about 1956 Alfred George Dorothy Bill Kate
1960s	John Farndale farmed at Tidkinhow until he retired in the 1960s. His wife, Elsie, became ill soon after they moved to 14 Walton Terrace at Guisborough. She died shortly afterwards. John lived at Guisborough and was looked after by relatives. He spent his last few years in a cottage near Stapleton where he was nearer to relatives, particularly Margaret Shields, eldest daughter of his sister Lynn. John’s house in Guisborough in about 1960: With his niece Margot With his brother Alfred Grace Farndale, John, Elsie Farndale, Alfred and Dorothy Ross Margot, John, Elsie, Alfred and Dorothy Grace with her brother George Farndale in Calgary in about 1960
9 September 1966	Kate Kinsey died at Three Hills, Alberta and is buried in Trochu graveyard.
29 April 1970	John Farndale died in Darlington, aged 93.
1970	Dorothy Farndale married Robert Drake in Howden.
1973	George and Marjorie Kinsey at Three Hills, Alberta in 1973 The remains of the Kinsey House, near Trochu in July 1973
1978	Grace with Anne’s son, Stephen at Alfred’s Golden Wedding in March 1978
1981	Dorothy Annie Drake (nee Farndale) died in Wensleydale.
1987	A visit to Tidkinhow in 1987
30 May 1987	Alfred Farndale died at Ruston Hospital, Northallerton and is buried at Wensley Church.
1988	Mary Frances Brown (nee Farndale) died in Northallerton.
2016	A Family Reunion at Tidkinhow in 2016 Ann Shepherd (nee Farndale) and her son Stephen Margot, Ann and Geoff (children of Alfred) Geoff Farndale talking to Sarah Farndale watched on by Jamie Farndale Nick Carlisle and William Atkinson From left to right: Christine Richardson (nee Farndale); John Richardson; Ian Carlisle; Judith Carlisle (nee Atkinson); Margot Atkinson (nee Farndale); Nick Carlisle; Ann Shepherd (nee Farndale); Stephen Shepherd; Sarah Farndale; Jamie Farndale; Barbara Farndale; Tory Richardson; Nigel Farndale; Joe Farndale; Sam Farndale; William Atkinson; Brian Fawcett; Rosie Atkinson (back); Catherine Wylie (nee Atkinson)(front); Geoff Farndale; Susan Fawcett; Richard Farndale. (descendants of Martin and the Farndales of Tidkinhow)