Frances Farndale


c 1756 to 20 February 1836 (buried)

 

 The Whitby 1 Line

 

FAR00181

 

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

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Frances lived in Whitby, had two children as a single woman and then married.

 

Headlines of Frances’ life are in brown.

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1756

 

Frances Farndale, daughter of Francis and Margaret Farndale (FAR00135), was baptised at Whitby on 3 September 1759 (Whitby PR). However the record shows that she was 3 years and ten months old at her Christening, so she was born in or about 1756. She was christened in 1759 with her three siblings.

 

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1786

William Farndale (
FAR00207), son of Frances Farndale was born on 11 April 1786 and baptised at Whitby on 13 April 1786 (Whitby PR, North Yorkshire County Record Office N-PR-WH1-9). His mother was a spinster, so he was born when she was single, at the age of 30. He was referred to in the language of the day as illegitimate.

 

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1787

 

William died aged 13 months and was buried at St Mary, Whitby on 3 May 1787.

 

1789

Margaret Farndale (
FAR00213), daughter of Frances Farndale, was born in Whitby on 2 May 1789 and baptised at St Mary the Virgin, Whitby on 16 July 1789 (Whitby PR, North Yorkshire County Record Office N-PR-WH1-9).

 

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1791

 

Margaret died at the age of two and was buried at St Mary the Virgin, Whitby on 22 March 1791.

 

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Frances Farndale married Robert Heselton, at Whitby on 26 July 1791.

 

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1836

 

Frances Heselton, born in 1756, aged 80, was buried on 20 February 1836 at Whitby (Whitby PR, North Yorkshire Record Office PR/WH 1/48).

 

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Robert Heselton died two months later on 10 April 1836 at Whitby.