The Tidkinhow Line

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Tidkinhow Farm, near Guisborough, about 1900 - Kate, Catherine, Alfred and Elizabeth (Lynn) - Martin and Catherine moved here in about 1884

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from Martin Farndale and Catherine Lindsay who settled at Tidkinhow Farm on the North York Moors

 

Home Page

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Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

The Farndale Story

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The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages

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The 84 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory

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Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

Themes

Links to other pages with historical research and related material

Related Family Stories

The story of the Bakers of Highfields, the Chapmans, and other related families

 

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.

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

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 Kilton 1 Line

 

The Lindsays

The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay’s family

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Farndale

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19 September 1845 to 17 January 1928

Married Catherine Jane Lindsay on 7 July 1877

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

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Catherine Jane Lindsay

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28 July 1854 to 14 July 1911

From Alnwick

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John Farndale

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24 December 1877 to 29 April 1970

Married Elsie Maude Hammond on 19 May 1928

Miner and farmer of Kilton and Tidkinhow. The last Farndale at Tidkinhow

Tidkinhow, Kilton, Darlington

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Elizabeth Lindsay (“Lynn”) Farndale

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11 December 1879 to 30 January 1944

Married George Barker on 22 August 1903

Kilton, Brotton, Scorton, Tancred Grange, Redcar

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Martin Farndale

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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

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George Farndale

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9 January 1882 to 4 May 1954

Farmer at Three Hills, Alberta

Three Hills Alberta, Tranmire, Tidkinhow, Calgary

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Catherine (Kate”) Jane Farndale

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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

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James (“Jim”) Farndale

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22 December 1885 to 20 January 1967

Married Edna Adams

Carpenter, Union Leader and Senator for Nevada State

Las Vegas, Nevada; California, Tidkinhow, Alberta

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William Farndale

22 July 1887 to 21 July 1889

Died aged 2

Tidkinhow, Skelton

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Mary Frances Farndale

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22 January 1889 to 1988

Married George Brown on 4 December 1920

A confectionist who lived near Harrogate

Tidkinhow, Guisborough, Harrogate, Leeds, Low Gatherley, Northallerton

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William Farndale

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29 January 1891 to 23 November 1918

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Served in the Canadian Army in WW1 and died of flu epidemic shortly after the War ended

Trochu, Alberta; Regina, Sakatchuan; Tidkinhow

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Grace Alice Farndale

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21 April 1893 to 15 March 1993

Married Howard Holmes on 3 April 1934

Tidkinhow, Huxley and Calgary, Alberta and Leyburn

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Dorothy Annie Farndale

24 March 1895 to 28 June 1981

Married Alfred Ross in 1928 and Robert Drake in 1970

Alfred Ross farmed at Skelton Green

Tidkinhow, Skelton, Leyburn

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Alfred (“Alf”) Farndale

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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

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The Barker Family

 

 

The Kinsey Family

The American 1 Line

 

Ena Brown (c 1922)

 

 

 

The Wensleydale Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kate Margaret (“Margaret”) Barker

Margaret Barker

27 February 1904 to 13 August 1998

Married John Kirkaldy Shield (1897 to 1979) in 1931

Gladys Mary (“Mary”)  Barker

24 August 1905 to 1979

Married Jonathan A Richardson (1908 to 1972) in 1929

 

William (“Willie”) Barker

William (Willie) Barker

4 February 1907 to 1994

John George Barker

John Barker

31 October 1908 to 28 January 1986

Married Hannah E M Wardman in 1943

 

George Lindsay Barker

George Barker

17 July 1911 to 24 June 1955

Married Kathleen Mellanby in 1944

 

Dorothy Winsome (“Dolly”) Barker

28 December 1912 to 2007

Married Thomas Westgarth (b 1910) on 4 June 1936

 

 

 

 

 

 

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George F Shield

1932 to 2003

Robert W Shield

1937 to 1993

Jane Elizabeth (“Paddy”) Barker

1944 to 2016

William Lindsay Barker

1946 to 27 June 1996

Married Patricia A Porter in 1968

Mary Lindsay (“Lindy”) Barker

1950

George William Westgarth

29 July 1938 to 2 June 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geoffrey B Richardson

1931

John J Richardson

1933

Patricia Richardson

1934

 

George Henry Kinsey

George Henry Kinsey

1919 to 1998

Married Margery in about 1945

Marjorie

Dorothy Catherine Kinsey

Dorothy Kinsey

1920 to 2013

Married Walter James (“Jim”) Goodbrand (1918 to 2010) on 5 January 1946

Walter James Goodbrand

Alfred William Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey

11 January 1921 to 12 November 2018

Married Oneta Lorena Davis (1927 to 2012) in 1958

Oneta Lorena Davis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Carolyn Goodbrand

Gordon Goodbrand

Ken Goodbrand

Lorraine Goodbrand

Married MSN Corbett

Shirley Goodbrand

Married MSN Johnson

Marilee Kinsey

Marvin Kinsey

1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dale Wayne Kinsey

20 November 1952 to 7 June 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are subscribed to Ancestry you can also visit the Farndale Family Tree on Ancestry, which links the whole family together.

 

The Deeper Ancestry of the Tidkinhow Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Tidkinhow Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Tidkinhow 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

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A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Primeval Swamp

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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

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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

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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)

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The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor

 

 

 

 

Anglo Saxon Kirkdale

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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The Scandinavian centre of northern England

The Kirkdale Sundial

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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

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Regime Change

Game of Thrones

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1066 to 1200

The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest

Rievaulx Abbey

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This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154

 

 

The Pathfinders

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Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places

Poachers of Pickering Forest

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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

Sheep and Shepherds by MINIATURIST, English

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

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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

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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

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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

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Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears

 

The Lindsays

The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay’s family

The Farndales of Tidkinhow

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The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow and the adventures of twelve siblings who lived in a house that wasn’t big enough for them all

The Tidkinhow Line

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Atlantic crossings at the time of Titanic

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The story of five brothers and two sisters who crossed the Atlantic in the age of Titanic to emigrate to Canada

The Albertans

The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow who left Yorkshire for a new life on the Prairies