The Wensleydale Line

Alfred and Peggy’s family in 1986

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from Alfred Farndale and Peggy Baker

Home Page Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

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

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

The Farndale Directory 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

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

Introduction

Alfred Farndale was born at Tidkinhow in 1897, the youngest of twelve children. In 1928 he married Peggy Baker and they emigrated to Alberta, where they lived until 1935. Three of their four children were born there. They returned to Yorkshire in 1935 and their fourth child, Margot was born. During the Second World War, Alfred took the tenancy of Gale Bank Farm from Lord Bolton and farmed there until he retired, after which time his son Geoff continued to farm there. This is the story of the Wensleydale Farndales.

Geoffrey and Martin Farndale (back row), and Anne, Alf, Peggy and Margot Farndale (sitting), 1986

The Family Tree

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 Tidkinhow Line	The Baker Line		The Hall Line
				Alfred (“Alf) Farndale 5 July 1897 to 30 May 1987 Married Margaret Louisa 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	Margaret Louisa Baker (“Peggy”) 24 February 1901 to 17 November 1996 BAK00002
General Sir Martin Farndale KCB 6 January 1929 to 10 May 2000 Married Anne Buckingham on 13 August 1955 Commander in Chief British Army of the Rhine; Commander Northern Army Group of NATO at time of the Cold War, Master Gunner St James Park, KCB Trochu, Alberta; Wensley; Northallerton; British Army of the Rhine; Goring by sea, Angmering on sea FAR00911	The Buckingham Line The Chapman Line Margaret Anne (“Anne”) Buckingham BUC0002		Marianne (“Anne”) Catherine Farndale 30 October 1930 Married Norman Shepherd Alberta, Glasgow, Northallerton FAR00915	Norman Shepherd 15 December 1930 to 17 December 1996		Alfred Geoffrey (“Geoff”) Farndale 10 April 1932 to 22 July 2026 Married Barbara White in 1961 Farmer in Wensleydale Trochu, Alberta, Northallerton, Wensley, Barnard Castle FAR00922	Barbara White		Margaret (“Margot”) Lindsay Farndale 8 October 1937 Married William (Billy) Atkinson Thornton-le-moor, Gammmersgill FAR00952	William (“Billy”) Atkinson
Richard Martin Farndale 17 April 1963 Married Charlotte Coutts in 1990 (The Coutts Family and the Scott Family) Artillery officer and lawyer Epsom, Sussex, Germany, Hampshire, Edinburgh FAR01122	Stephen Geoffrey Shepherd 1957	David Michael Shepherd 1960	Catherine Jean Shepherd 1962 Married Raymond Wylie in 1998		Christine Barbara Farndale 23 November 1962 Married George John (“John”) Richardson in 1989 Wensleydale, Hutton Magna FAR01119	Nigel Geoffrey Farndale 30 September 1964 Journalist and author Married Mary Craig-McFeely in 1992 Wensleydale, Lambeth, Hampshire FAR01130	Susan Elizabeth Atkinson 1960 Married Brian P Fawcett in 1982	Judith Margaret Atkinson 1962 Married Ian P Carlisle in 1984		Alfred William (“Will”) Atkinson 1966 Married Catherine Rosemary (“Rosie”) Chapman
						Go under		Go under
James (“Jamie”) Martin Richard Farndale 21 February 1994 Scotland Rugby Player, Hong Kong Rugby Club Development and Sustainability officer Married Katherine Amanda (“Katie”) Smith Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong FAR01317	Sarah Louise Farndale 15 May 1997 Wealth Manager, Royal Bank of Canada, Brewin Dolphin Edinburgh, London FAR01333	Laura Shepherd 1984	Michael Shepherd 1985	Olivia Anne M Richardson 1991 Barnard Castle	Victoria Grace (“Tory”) Richardson 1993 Barnard Castle	William George (“Will”) Richardson 1996 Barnard Castle	James Rowland Fawcett 1985	Robert Brian Fawcett 1987	Rachel Louise Fawcett 1991	Thomas George Atkinson 2002
						From Nigel and Mary Farndale		From Judith and Ian Carlisle
				Alfred (“Alf”) Edmund Douglas Farndale 1998 London, Hampshire FAR01343	Samuel (“Sam”) Digby Martin Farndale 2000 London, Hampshire FAR01358	Joseph (“Joe”) Benedict Rex Farndale 2004 London, Hampshire FAR01394	Nicholas Ian (“Nick”) Carlisle 1991	Phillip Thomas (“Phil”) Carlisle 1993	Harry Dawes Carlisle 1996

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

Alf. then known by all as Gran, around Gale Bank in the 1970s

Eller Close Ropad, Leyburn Alf and Peggy in the 1980s

Geoffrey’s family in 1986

The Wensleydale at a family reunion in 2016 at Tidkinhow

Margot, Anne and Geoff Farndale

The Deeper Ancestry of the Wensleydale Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Wensleydale Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Wensleydale 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 Lindsays The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay’s family	The Farndales of Tidkinhow 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	Atlantic crossings at the time of Titanic 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
		General Sir Martin Farndale KCB 1929 to 2000 The original author of this genealogy who led the British Army and Northern Command of NATO in the crucial years of the Cold War	The Wensleydale Line	Alfred Farndale and Peggy Baker The World War 1 veteran, Alfred Farndale married the independently minded Peggy Baker in 1929 and embarked immediately for the Prairie of Alberta. Defeated by the Great Depression the family returned to Yorkshire where they built a new life from the 1930s	The Bakers of Highfields The Story of the Baker Family of Highfields A portal into another family, the ancestors of Peggy Baker, who married Alfred Farndale