The Farndale Story

A Journey through time, following in the footsteps of one family

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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

The Time Traveller s Journey through North Yorkshire The History of the North York Moors, Ryedale, York, Cleveland and beyond

A Brief Introduction to the Family Story

This page is the portal, through which you can experience a family s journey through time. You will scroll down to the Matrix, through which you can explore the history of the Farndale family, of northern Yorkshire centred on the North York Moors, and take a unique journey through the national story. First, some brief introductory guidance will help you on your way.

Fasten your seatbelts, ready for time travel

The earliest ancestors When Simon, John, Nicholas, Robert, Gilbert, Hugh and Alfred Farndale, and their thirteenth century families, started to clear the forested valley of Farndale in the early thirteenth century, they brought the agricultural skills of their ancestors, who were almost certainly the families of the relatively stable lands around Kirkdale, a few miles to the south. As their ancestors had worked on those Kirkdale lands for a millennium through Roman, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian influences, they had already witnessed momentous events in the shaping of a national history, occurring in the immediate vicinity of their home.	The poachers, pioneers and soldiers of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries The immediate descendants of the first Farndales to be name checked in the historical record were often unruly, and many were outlawed and excommunicated for poaching in the Royal Forest of Pickering. Those who took the Farndale name to define themselves left Farndale and found new homes in the North York Moors and across the southern lands around York. A merchant family settled in York. Another family settled in the heart of the Neville lands at Sheriff Hutton and fought with the armies of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, before witnessing the Wars of the Roses from the epicentre of influence. After the Black Death, William Farndale became a chaplain in Doncaster, where he became the parish vicar by the end of the fourteenth century. His descendants and the ancestors of the modern family were focused at Campsall and Barnsdale forest by the end of the sixteenth century, the place where the legends of Robin Hood were written, inspired by ancestral outlaws of the forest.	The farmers of Kilton and the sailors of Whitby In the mid sixteenth century, the family moved north into the Bruce lands around Skelton and the family became settled across Cleveland. The lovely rural village of Kilton became the home for generations of the family. Others settled in the bustling port of Whitby, from where Giles Farndale was press ganged to fight in the Spanish Main, while John Farndale sailed in colliers on which James Cook, explorer of new worlds, was mate. Another Whitby family were merchant mariners who experienced epic adventures at sea.	Industrial Revolution As the industrial age hit Cleveland the family were drawn into new opportunities and struggles and John Farndale wrote extensively about the transition into scientific and industrial innovation. The family worked in the ironstone mines and in new heavy industries, and moved to the dark satanic mills of the textile industry in South Yorkshire. Experiencing the trials of new urban lives, John William Farndale was the youngest member of the Jarrow March of 1936.
Leadership Two Joseph Farndales each became influential Chief Constables of Birmingham and Bradford, between them unearthing Fenian dynamite plots and inventing the police box, which has since become the ultimate time machine. Rev Dr William Edward Farndale was the head of the Methodist Church and Moderator of the Free Church Council. General Sir Martin Farndale KCB commanded the north flank of Nato during the Cold War.	Pioneers across the globe Meantime the family spread across a new empire to Australia, Ontario, Newfoundland, Alberta and New Zealand, and took the family pioneering genes across the world.	War The family experienced the excitements and the horrors of wars. John George Farndale wrote letters home from the heights of Sebastopol, through the Crimean War. Those male members of the family born at the end of the nineteenth century were nearly all destined for their places in the trenches of the First World War and many served in the Second World War.	An Everyman Story The Farndale Story is a unique history of a single family and its path through two thousand years of British History. It is also a shared story with countless other ordinary folk who trod the path of British history. It is both the particular story of one family, and an everyman story of many.

A Quick Key to the Matrix

Please read the short safety briefing before we take off

The Matrix is your portal to follow the family journey. Before you scroll down further, a few tips to get best use from the Matrix:

When you first visit the Farndale Story, it might help to read the Time Traveller s Handbook before using the Matrix for the first time. When you ve finished reading the Handbook please replace it in the pocket in front of your seat.	I suggest that you start by reading the Prologue, at the top of the matrix. The Numbered Stories in thirty three Acts take you on the main journey into the past. You re best to read them in the numbered order, starting with the Prologue and then Act 1. However more rebellious readers can travel through time in a more random order if that is what you prefer.	The Local Story Explainers tell of local historical factors, events, and places which influenced our family s story. They provide a little more depth as you visit different eras of time. They reflect the local history of Northumbria, Yorkshire, and the vicinity of the North York Moors.	Further context is provided by the National Story Explainers, which gives a wider perspective to the family and local history.	The Farndale Folk are a few of our ancestors waiting to be introduced to you, to further enhance your journey through time.	The Thirty Objects and Places take you on a geographical tour, and provide directions if you have the chance to visit the lands where the Farndale Story played out.	All these pages are full of hyperlinks. These will take you to the underlying research if you would like to explore in more depth, or check the source material.
After reading the Prologue, scroll down to the early thirteenth century to find Act 1 of the story.			When the light grey boxes appear within the pages of the Farndale story, click on the hyperlinked title, to follow the link	Every member of the Farndale family has his or her own webpage.

The Time Traveller s Matrix

Now, you are ready for time travel.

To avoid getting lost in the Matrix, stay oriented by following the the Prologue and the Acts and then use the other pages to build more context, and understand the local and national history. If you follow the Farndale Story in the order of the numbered Acts, this will take you on a journey which starts in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when Farndale the place first appeared in historical records and individuals started to take its name. You will then travel back to the age of Roman Empire Britain and follow the story of the lands in the vicinity of Farndale through Roman, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian times, before continuing the journey forward from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

However it s up to you whether you take a structured journey through the Matrix, or leap backwards and forwards across places in time as takes your fancy.

Prepare for takeoff

The Time Traveller s Handbook The Guide to getting the best use of the Matrix for future reference		The Kirkdale Ancestors How we can trace the family story back two thousand years		Prologue Moors, Dales and Vales An overview guide and introduction to the three distinct landscapes which defined our history After reading the Prologue, scroll down several rows to start with Act 1 The Cradle		Glossary An alphabetical list of words and terms which you might come across during your travels, which are explained here	A Journey through the ancestral lands Like so many of the Farndale forebears, you might be inspired to take a journey through our ancestral lands		Everyman This is the story of one family s two thousand year journey It is a story shared with countless other families who travelled the path of British history.
The Geology of Farndale Understanding the landscape	The context of the Palaeolithic Period or the Old Stone Age A global context to the prehistory of Yorkshire Before about 10,000 BCE	The vicinity of Farndale in the Mesolithic Period The age of hunting folk in tune with the land 9,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE	The vicinity of Farndale in the Neolithic Period, the New Stone Age The age of early farmers who brought early settlement, religious beliefs and new structures to Ryedale 3,000 BCE to 1,800 BCE	The vicinity of Farndale in the Bronze Age The Beaker Folk who introduced metal working 1,800 BCE to 700 BCE	The vicinity of Farndale in the Iron Age The Celtic Brigantes folk who formed proto kingdoms 700 BCE to 70 CE		Kirkdale Cave A portal to the geological past from the heart of the family story
	Star Carr The richest Mesolithic suite in Britain, a few miles south of Scarborough, on the edge of the ancient Lake Pickering, only 30 km from Farndale	The Ryedale Windy Pits Underground caves, only 15 km from Farndale, which were the home of the Bronze Age Beaker Folk	Roulston Scar A massive Iron Age promontory Hill Fort only 20 km from Farndale	Act 2 The Primeval Swamp The Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, and Mesolithic evidence of the people of Ryedale and the North York Moors				Medieval Sources A Bibliography of source material used in the medieval research
		Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) The Roman Regional Capital of the lands around Kirkdale	Hovingham A Roman Villa on palatial scale just south of Kirkdale	Act 3 A Roman Imperial Inheritance 71 CE to 410 CE Ancestral lands on the edge of the Roman Empire	Beadlam A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the heart of our ancestral lands	Eboracum (York) The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor	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	Roman Yorkshire 71 to 410 CE A chronology of the history of Roman Yorkshire focused on York, Ryedale and the North York Moors
The Venerable Bede This life of Bede and the history of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, providing context for the founding of Lastingham and Kirkdale, and the work of Alcuin and the York scholars Cornu Vallis An exploration of the association of the last resting place of Ceolfrith of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow before his journey to Rome and the Horn Ridge which overlooks Farndale	A place of wild beasts and men who lived like wild beasts Bede s description of the wilderness of Farndale as a place of dragons and wild beasts The village and church of Lastingham, with its Norman crypt	Lastingham 653 CE The founding of a Celtic Christian monastery by Cedd, 2 km from the entrance to Farndale Cedd c 620 to 664 CE The Lindisfarne monk and East Saxon Bishop who founded Lastingham	Synod of Whitby 664 CE The momentous agreement at Whitby, 30 km northeast of Farndale, which resolved incompatibilities between Roman and Celtic Christian traditions, and placed Britain onto the European stage	Act 4 Anglo Saxon Yorkshire 410 CE to 866 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 The vicinity of Farndale in the Anglo Saxon period The Anglo Saxon Period 410 to 866 CE The Beowulf kings of Deira, Bernicia and Northumbria Northumbria s Golden Age Sixth and Seventh Centuries CE When Northern England was the European centre of knowledge and learning	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 Northumbria Genealogy The genealogy of the Deiran, Bernician and later Northumbrian Kings Beowulf The Anglo-Saxon saga that transports us to the lives of the post Roman folk of England Ad Gefrin at Yeavering The sixth century royal tribute centre of the Bernician Kings	Alcuin and the birth of modern education The world of Ecgberht 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	Carlin How and Saxon Witches The burial ground of a Saxon princess who lay for thirteenth centuries overlooking the Hill of Witches where the Craggs line of Farndales would later make their home	Introduction to Kirkdale and its Minster An introduction to several pages which tell the history of Kirkdale and its vicinity The Kirkdale Saxon Artefacts Ornate sarcophagus lids and Saxon artefacts to be found in Kirkdale Minster and embedded into its walls which will transport you to the Eighth century CE
	The Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian Period 866 CE to 1042 The Scandinavian influence on Yorkshire after the Viking raids from 793 CE and the assault of the Great Heathen Army Anglo Saxon Kings immediately before the Norman Conquest 1042 to 1066 The eventful years immediately preceding the Norman Conquest Earl Siward of Northumberland	Jorvik Museum York A reconstructed journey into Scandinavian Yorkshire and a glimpse of Scandinavian objects which tells its story	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	Act 5 Scandinavian Yorkshire 866 CE to 1042 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 The vicinity of Farndale in the Anglo Saxon Scandinavian Period	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
The Normans 1066 to 1154 Domination from northern France The Harrying of the North The devastation of Yorkshire and northern England by William the Conqueror Norman Domination Regime Change Risings in the North A history of Yorkshire rebellions through time The Royal Genealogy The Family Tree of the English and British monarchs after 1066 which will help to make sense of relationships behind the evolution of the national historical story	Agriculture Law and administration The feudal system Trade and commerce	House Mowbray The descendants of Nigel D Aubigny to whom our ancestors owed their allegiance in the twelfth century The Genealogy of House Mowbray The Mowbray Family Tree Bending the knee	House Stuteville The descendants of Robert de Stuteville to whom our ancestors owed their allegiance in the eleventh and then from the late twelfth century The Genealogy of House Stuteville  A Family Tree of the De Stuteville Family in Yorkshire Joan the Fair Maid of Kent en son temps la plus belle de tout la roiaulme d'Engleterre et la plus amoureuse The most glamorous owner of Farndale	Act 6 Game of Thrones 1042 to 1200 From the eve of the Norman Conquest to the chess games of the great Norman noble Houses over the lands where our ancestors lived The Game of Thrones and the Estate of Kirkbymoorside Kirkbymoorside in a game of chess from 1066	The First Reference to Farndale Rievaulx Cartulary, 1154 Rievaulx Abbey This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154 The Forest of Farndale as a royal forest and monastic supply base 1128 to 1255 The Crown s insistence on a Royal Forest and gifts of clearings in Farndale to monastic houses	Rievaulx Abbey The breathtaking abbey ruins that must have been held in astonished awe by our forebears when the abbey broke through the soil of Ryedale, adjacent to Farndale, in only a couple of decades before it started to take control of swathes of those lands Helmsley A History of Helmsley to about 1500	House Brus The baronial Yorkshire family from whom later Scottish Kings would derive and who dominated the early history of our later Cleveland home Brus Genealogy A family tree of the House Brus, the Lords of Skelton and Annandale, and the family relationship to the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland	The Royal Line and the Noble Houses The relationship between the Royal Dynasties of England and the Noble Houses who directly influenced our family history	The Kirkdale Ancestor We explore here where the Farndale ancestors, who we cannot identify individually, might have come from
The Plantagenets 1154 to 1399 England in the Middle Ages Culture and writing The Church and religion Towns The Yeoman	The cultivation and early history of Farndale c 1220 to 1400 The lay settlement of Farndale Medieval Farming Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest Farndale after 1400 The dale in the Late Middle Ages	A Drive through Farndale A journey to places in Farndale which featured in a 1301 tax register, marking out the geography of the place our ancestors settled	The Farndale Rim A look down into Farndale to take in its scale and landscape, from the place where the Roman Purse was dropped If you have the energy, a hike to Middle Head, the Lord of the Rings land of Midelhovet, where Edmund the Hermit once dwelled	Act 1 The Cradle Thirteenth Century Farndale Clearing the dale to build our new home After the Prologue, Start Here	Simon the Miller of Farndale c 1255 to c 1334 Perhaps the first significant person we can identify who bore the Farndale name He paid the highest rent of 7s 9d in Farndale in the 1301 Subsidy, suggesting as miller, he was the wealthiest inhabitant Simon had a servant, John, in 1301 We know of four sons, two of whom left the dale to seek their fortunes elsewhere, and two of whom became regular poachers, for which they were fined and outlawed	John the Miller of Farndale c 1256 to c 1330 John appears in the records as John the Miller through the misdeeds of his poacher sons. He may have been John, the servant of Simon the miller in 1301, who eventually became a more substantial partner in the business, with both men later being referred to as the miller. He may have been Simon s brother, or his servant or a business partner, or all of those things He also had poaching sons.	The Story of Farndale to 1500 The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500, to accompany the family story The Duchy of Lancaster and the Honour and Forest of Pickering The surprising association of our early family history with the House of Lancaster	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	Meet the Medieval Inhabitants of Farndale We have records of many of the folk who lived in Farndale in the thirteenth and fourteenth century Here you can meet the whole crowd of the medieval inhabitants of Farndale Farndale in 1276 The Inquisition Post Mortem of Lady Joan de Stuteville provides evidence of the extent of cultivated land by the mid thirteenth century Farndale in 1282 The Inquisition Post Mortem of Baldwin Wake provides evidence of a rapidly expanding community Farndale in 1301 Detailed evidence of the inhabitants of Farndale is provided by the 1301 Yorkshire Subsidy, a tax imposed to fund the Scottish Wars
	Pickering Parish Church Glance up at a remarkable medieval mural, which includes archers who might remind us of our poacher ancestors	Pickering Castle The sombre Norman castle of Pickering, where you will be taken to the law court where our ancestors were fined, imprisoned, outlawed and excommunicated	The Great Yorkshire Forest Drive A drive through Dalby Forest, the modern Pickering Forest, where our forebears took game in contravention of forest laws, or were caught and punished by the verderers and regarders of the forest Poaching in Pickering Forest A study of the nature of poaching in Pickering Forest The 1334 to 1339 Eyre of Pickering Forest The itinerant court which picked up about 40 years of prior business.	Act 7 Poachers of Pickering Forest Tales of a surprisingly large number of our forebears caught poaching in Pickering Forest. Their archery skills would foretell the legends of Robin Hood and the English army at Agincourt	Richard de Farndale c 1275 to c 1345 John had a gift of land in Marton in 1300 However he was excommunicated for stealing on 12 August 1316 From 1323 he was in trouble for a string of poaching offences	William the Smith of Farndale c 1284 to c 1350 William probably continued a family business at the Smithy which was probably located at Low Mill William and his sons enjoyed a spot of poaching, but his sons took poaching to a new level and were later engaged in violent raiding expeditions	John the Shepherd of Farndale c 1280 to c 1365 John had a groom, Roger, and animals which included nine oxen, and at least three cattle In the 1330s he was a guarantor for several poachers who needed bail	Roger the Miller of Farndale, the Hard Bear c 1255 to c 1345 The miller of Farndale who probably worked at High Mill A poacher by 1293 who was probably the person described as burly as a bear	John de Farndale, The Cattle Rustler c 1315 to c 1390 John Farndale was another of the family poachers. He slew a hart in Leashow in 1331, promised to behave in 1334, but took a hind and calf in Rotemir in 1336. Then, in 1384, having raised his game to a new scale, he took part in a major cattle rustling expedition in Northumberland, assaulting and threatening the landlord s servants
	The ancient routes across the moors Exploring the ancient tracks and roads across the moors around Farndale		John de Farndale The Saddler c 1278 to 1372 John left Farndale and settled in Egton for a while, before returning via Farndale to live in Rosedale for many years, where he farmed 6 acres In 1336 he took a loan of 8 and perhaps shortly afterwards set up a business as a saddler in York, of which city he later became a freeman Egton The history of Egton	Act 8 The Pathfinders Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places	De Willelmo de Farndale c 1279 to c 1340 A tenant in Danby in 1301 Danby Danby at the turn of the fourteenth century	Walter de Farndale The Itinerant Priest c 1300 to c 1370 Vicar of Haltwhistle, Lazonby, Illisahaghe hospital, Upmeadon, Chelmsford	William Farndale of Sheriff Hutton c1332 to c 1397 A chaplain of Darley near Harrogate, pardoned for the death of John de Spaldington, he later moved to Sheriff Hutton where his family found themselves in Neville lands during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses	Walter de Farndale The Murder Victim c 1277 to 1327 His oxen strayed in Pickering Forest in 1310, for which he was fined He later moved to Cayton near Scarborough, where he was murdered
The Shambles The street of the Medieval Butchers	Act 9 The Merchants of York The Merchants of York York 1066 to 1500 A History of York after the Norman Conquest	Johannes Fernedill c 1352 to c 1425 John Farndale, and his brothers Henry and William, were archers and men at arms called to fight in Scotland in 1389 John was later a butcher made freeman of York in 1408	Johannes de Farndall c 1334 to c 1405 A freeman of York in 1397 through patrimony from his father	House Neville This history of the family who influenced the Wars of the Roses in whose seat our ancestors lived Neville Genealogy The Family tree of the House Neville and its relationship to the King Makers and royal dynasties of the later Middle Ages	Sheriff Hutton Church The Church of St Helen and the Holy Cross and the Chapel of St Nicholas, the heart of the Neville lands, and place of the alabaster effigy of the young son of Richard III	The History of Sheriff Hutton to 1500 A history of Sheriff Hutton which will take you to the lands of the Nevilles and Richard III during the Wars of the Roses Plantagenet rivalry The dynastic struggles of the Plantagenets, leading to the Wars of the Roses, the events of which our ancestors were direct witnesses	Act 10 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 The Start of the Hundred Years War Tumultuous times in England.	Richard Farndale c 1357 to 20 December 1435 A veteran soldier of the armies of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V who fought in the French and Scottish Wars	The Houses of Lancaster and York 1399 to 1485 England during the reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and the Wars of the Roses Richard of Gloucester s Northern Interests The future Richard III s interests in Yorkshire and northern Britain
	St Mary Magdalene Church, Campsall The church in Barnsdale forest of which the literary character of the Middle Ages, Robin Hood, wrote I made a chapel in Bernysdale, That seemly is to se, It is of Mary Magdaleyne, And therto would I be. Nearby sites associated with Robin Hood including Robin Hood s Well at the side of the A1	Medieval Doncaster and its minster The Victorian Parish church (later Minster) of Doncaster rebuilt in 1853, but on the site of the earlier Parish church of which William Farndale was chaplain and later vicar in the years after the Black Death	Nicholaus de ffarnedale 1332 To 1400 Nicholas paid the 4d Poll Tax of 1379 which led to the Peasant s Revolt	Sir William Farndale c 1330 to c1415 The Chaplain and Vicar of Doncaster, who held lands at Loversall, of whom we have significant records	Act 11 The Vicar of Doncaster The Family of William Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster	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 Black Death	Loversall The history of a small village and church just south of Doncaster, where William Farndale held land	Campsall and Barnsdale Forest The history of the village of Campsall north of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century	Robin Hood The legend of Robin Hood explored for its Yorkshire roots, and the Farndale connection with the legends, first as the class of poachers who gave rise to the inspiration, and later their fifteenth century descendants who lived in the place where the stories emerged
The Tudors 1485 to 1603 Sixteenth century England	The Modern Farndale Family Tree From this point the family grows to such a size, that it will divide into 84 separate Family Lines This matrix provides a key to understand the whole family who sprung from these modest beginnings		Nicholas and Agnes Farndale 1512 to 6 August 1572 The most likely paternal and maternal ancestors of modern Farndales, who died in Kirkleatham having probably emigrated with their family into Cleveland	Act 12 Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle The Sixteenth and Seventeenth century Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in Cleveland	William and Margaret (nee Atkinson) Farndale c 1539 to 24 January 1606 The couple who married at St Mary Magdalene Church in Campsall north of Doncaster, and who emigrated to Cleveland and were buried in Skelton.	Kirkleatham A history of Kirkleatham and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland	Skelton A history of Skelton and its old church. The Farndales arrived in Moorsholm in the Parish of Skelton in about 1588 and lived there through the tumultuous years of the Civil War	The Stuarts 1603 to 1714 Seventeenth century England
Charles Farndale 1838 to 1914 Charles took over the farming of Kilton Hall Farm where he farmed 577 acres George Farndale 1876 to 1970 George was the last of the Kilton Farmers	William Farndale 1760 to 1846 William was a farmer of Kilton and a merchant of wood, rods, coals, salting bacon. Martin Farndale 1798 to 1885 Martin was a farmer at Kilton Hall Farm of 600 acres	The House of Hanover and the Victorian Period 1714 to 1901 Eighteenth and Nineteenth century Britain	Johnny Farndale 1724 to 1807 Old Farndale of Kilton, the patriarch of the Kilton Farndales, regaler of smuggler tales, alum merchant and farmer, of whom the Squire once said When you are gone, there will never be such another Johnny Farndale	Act 13 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 Kilton A chronology of its history 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 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	John Andrew 1757 to 1835 The King of the Smugglers The grandfather of Martin Farndale s wife Elizabeth Taylor, no doubt in league with the c17th Farndales. When the local folk whispered Andrew s Cow has calved, everyone knew the goods had arrived. The wealthy John Andrew later became master of the Cleveland Hunt	Cats Nab, Old Saltburn Have fish and chips in the Ship Inn, and you will be in the home of John Andrew s smuggling trade, once connected by an underground passage to the white house on the hill where my great x3 grandfather lived	Act 14 Spreading out from Brotton and Loftus The Second Hub The story of a substantial division of the family who spread widely across Cleveland and beyond from Kilton, Brotton and Loftus
Giles Farndale 1713 to 1742 Press ganged into the Royal Navy, Giles served on HMS Experiment in the Spanish Main during the War of Jenkins Ear where he died and was buried at sea	John Farndale 1709 to 1790 John Farndale served alongside James Cook, discoverer of the Southern Continent, on colliers out of Whitby	James Cook 1728 to 1779 The association of James Cook with Cleveland, Whitby, Great Ayton, the Farndale ancestral lands, and individuals of the Farndale Story	The History of Whitby to 1850 A history of Whitby at the height of its maritime power in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, home to several large Farndale families. A look back to the Anglo Saxon history of Whitby in the time of Celtic and Roman Christianity The Sea	Act 15 The Mariners of Whitby The Third Hub The story of the Whitby Farndales who settled in the bustling port of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	A Perspective of Whitby The place of Dracula inspiration where many Farndales have been buried, provides a vantage point over Whitby, and its maritime activity	John Christopher Farndale Senior 1802 to 1837 The story of the merchant master mariners, John Christopher Farndale Senior and his sons William Farndale and John Christopher Farndale Junior and their epic maritime adventures around the English coast, to the Baltic, Russia and Scandinavia and to Biscay, the site of a tragic disaster	Yearsley The home from the early eighteenth century of a large section of our family	Act 16 Return to the Vale of York The Fourth Hub The Ampleforth Farndales who returned south of the North York Moors to Yearsley near Ampleforth
Victorian Education The education of our forebears Children The life of children in Yorkshire from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century	Agricultural change How agricultural practices changed over time	Poverty Our family history includes experiences of high infant mortality in Victorian times, often extreme poverty, and struggle Health The evolution of medical care	Ambition A story of aspiration and achievement Industrial Revolution	Act 17 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	John Farndale 1791 to 1878 The Author A man of sphinxian complexity who wrote extensively and has passed down stories of the family and of change in early Victorian Yorkshire	Saltburn by the Sea, Victorian new town John Farndale focused much of his writing on the new seaside town of Saltburn by the Sea, built beside the Old Saltburn of smuggling repute. It was a place of Victorian optimism and inspiration, driven by the arrival of the railways and the richness of Cleveland s ironstone deposits	Alum The alum trade in Cleveland Service Opportunities for work as servants in households	Huntcliff, Saltburn by the Sea Find a vantage point on the towering Hunt Cliffs to look down over Saltburn and Cat Nab, and the alum mines. It was here, John tells us, that when a French Napoleonic ship threatened out to sea, a band of local women dressed in red along the cliffs to make the French believe that an army of redcoats was ready to welcome any attack
Ironstone Mining The engine of Cleveland s Victorian development was its mineral supply, particularly its ironstone. Individuals in the Farndale Story worked in an extensive network of mines throughout the area Mining Alum Cooper Corf Rods	Act 18 The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland	Kilton Mine The ruined site of the Kilton mine	John Henry Farndale 1828 to 1866 A Miner of West Hartlepool who was killed aged 37 by a fall of iron stone at the Poston Mines, Ormsby, Middlesborough.	Act 19 Dark Satanic Mills The many families who lived in Leeds, Bradford, Coatham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton through the period of industrial transition			Act 20 The Southerners The story of the folk who left Yorkshire and travelled to London and elsewhere in the south of Britain
			Joseph Farndale CBE KPM 1864 to 1954 The Chief Constable of Bradford who pioneered the use of fingerprints, invented the police box, and played a key role in Bradford s evolution at the start of the twentieth century	Joseph Farndale 1842 to 1901 The Chief Victorian Constable of Birmingham who foiled a Jack the Ripper Hoax and played a key role in uncovering the Ledsam Dynamite Conspiracy	Act 21 The Victorian Policemen To contrast with the medieval outlaw poachers of Pickering Forest, the story of the law makers including two influential Chief Constables and the real Inspector Foyle	Thomas Henry Farndale 1899 to 1964 An inspector of crime during the Second World War The real Inspector Foyle
Act 22 Great Ayton The story of the multiple generations of Farndales who made Great Ayton their home	Joseph Farndale 1795 to 1877 The father of a large Great Ayton family, who was a cartwright	Great Ayton A visit to Great Ayton where many members of the family lived, and a side trip to the James Cook Monument	Matthew Farndale 1793 to 1884 Matthew and Hannah Farndale and their daughters Mary and Elizabeth embarked on a 14 week voyage to Melbourne to establish a new lineage in Australia	Act 23 The Australians The story of Matthew Farndale and his two daughters who emigrated to Melbourne during the Australian Gold Rush and settled at Birregurra, who have left a wealth of descendants, though none still bearing the Farndale name. The story of another Australian family of the 1960s		Act 24 The Ontarians Upon his return from the Crimean War, John George Farndale took his family to Ontario in 1870. At about the same time Samuel Kirk Farndale took his family to Ontario		Pioneers The pioneering spirit that dominated the family s story from the mid nineteenth century
		The Lindsays The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay s family	Martin and Catherine Farndale 1845 to 1928 The parents of a family of twelve born on a moorland farm, who soon spread across Britain and North America	Act 25 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	Tidkinhow The moorland farm where a family of twelve grew up	The Craggs Hall Farndales The story of Matthew Farndale and his family of Craggs Hall Farm	The Railwayman The story of John Farndale and his family who moved to Loftus
The modern period of the House of Saxe Coburg Gotha and the House of Windsor From 1901 Britain in the modern age	John Martin Farndale 1886 to 1966 The grocer who emigrated to Newfoundland	Act 26 The Newfoundlanders In 1910 John Martin and Bessie Farndale emigrated to Newfoundland and established a grocery business in St John s. His son joined the Artillery in World War 2 and lived to be the oldest Farndale		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	Alfred Farndale 1897 to 1987 Peggy Baker 1901 to 1996 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	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	Act 27 The Albertans The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow who left Yorkshire for a new life on the Prairies	Martin Farndale 1881 to 1943 Martin Farndale was the first of his family of 12 to emigrate to Alberta and was soon joined by four brothers and two sisters who were pioneers of the prairie
		Jim Farndale 1885 to 1967 A pioneer who played an important role in the construction of the Hoover Dam in Nevada and later became a US Senator	The Hoover Dam The story of the Hoover Dam, with which Jim Farndale was associated	Act 28 The Americans The family of Jim Farndale, US Senator, who settled in Nevada and California. The descendants of George William Farndale who settled in Illinois and Wisconsin. The family of John Alan Farndale, of California		Act 29 The New Zealanders The New Zealand pioneers, descendants of Ronald Martin Farndale of Masterton, and of Wilf Farndale, of Gisborne	Ronald Martin Farndale 1919 to 1974 Captured at the Battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa, Ronald emigrated to New Zealand where his descendants still live	Wilf Farndale 1911 to 1985 An aircraft engineer in Bristol, Wilf emigrated to New Zealand
Act 30 - Newcastle and South Shields The many members of the family who settled in South Shields and Jarrow	John William Farndale Newcastle Johnny 1919 to 1986 The Youngest Jarrow Marcher in 1936	The Jarrow March 1936 The story of the Jarrow March of 1936, of which Johnny Farndale, was the youngest member		Act 31 The Methodists William Farndale was a railway porter who became a presbyterian missionary and his son, William became President of the Methodist Conference in 1947, leading a back to the soil campaign	Religion and ideas Exploring the role of religions of various denominations and the evolution of intellectual ideas on the Farndale Story	Rev Dr William Edward Farndale 1881 to 1966 The influential Primitive Methodist who became head of the Methodist Church and Moderator of the Free Church Council shortly after the Second World War
The Crimean War The Crimean War through the perspective of John Farndale, who took part in the long campaign	John George Farndale 1836 to 1909 A Victorian infantryman who provided us with an eye witness account of the Crimean War before taking his family to a new life in Ontario	The First World War Soldiers The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War The First World War The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story	George Farndale 1891 to 1917 The quiet and gentle boy, a blacksmith striker, who was killed in action on 27 May 1917 George Weighill Farndale 1886 to 1917 A warehouseman and then a Leeds Pal in the first world war who was killed in action at Arras during the Third Battle of the Scarpe	Act 32 The Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen An exploration of the many military members of the family, and their stories	The Second World War soldiers, sailors and airmen The story of the Farndales who took up arms in the Second World War The Second World War The context of the Second World War James Farndale 1916 to 1941 A Private in the West Yorkshire Regiment who died of wounds in Eritrea in British Somaliland in 1941	Bernard Farndale 1912 to 1944 An airman shot down over Denmark after a bombing raid, and secretly buried by the Danish resistance The story of the shooting down of Lancaster ME 718	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 Farndale Cocktail An explosive blend of Farndale firepower
			William Leng Farndale 1876 to 1932 A Brewer and Northumberland Hussar of Rothbury, Northumberland who confronted an armed robbery by two Russian sailors in the vicinity of his brewery	Act 33 The Twentieth Century A final chapter which explores the twentieth century family and reflects on how the family has spread its wings in the more recent years of the twenty first century	John Thomas Farndale JP 1854 to 1930 The Bank Manager of Thirsk	Wilfred Farndale 1910 to 1965 Wilfred was brought up in the community of Sir Titus Salt s Saltaire Mills. He was an accomplished Cricketer who played with some Yorkshire greats and a social influencer in his work as a Sanitary Officer	George William Farndale 1886 to 1948 A Comic Actor who joined the Yorkshire Mummers Samuel Farndale 1866 to 1936 From comic singer to Admiralty Clerk
			The Known Unknowns The family history is remarkably complete. We explore here where it has been necessary to rely on the most probable narrative where certainty has been impossible	Epilogue - inspiration from our back story What we can take from our journey through two thousand years of history Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua, I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past (Māori) Finish Here	Perspective Laying our Ancestors Back into the sun The genealogist s ambition	Perspective Exploring the Cave Peering through chambers to our ghostly beginnings
History and Artificial Intelligence The end of History?	Telling the story of Our Female Ancestors The historical record is not properly representative of our female ancestors. As a historian it is important to found our narrative on the evidence which exists. However by reflecting on the existing evidence, and applying a fresh analysis, we can recover the story of the Farndale women, even though the underlying evidence has not recorded everything they did	The Story of the Farndale Story Building the story over two generations	Time Travel Some reflections on new approaches to genealogy and historical research to allow families to come into contact with their deep ancestral history	Genealogy Some notes on the sources and methods used to compile and bring alive the lineage of a family A reflection of the importance of records of births, deaths and marriages, and census records, but some ideas about how to build on that framework to create stories and pathways through regional and national history	Medieval Genealogy A recognition of some restrictions to genealogical research before 1500, but some ideas to help overcome the constraints	Genealogy and History Some thoughts on the relationship between genealogical methods with historical research, to uncover the full picture		Meet the whole family. The 84 Family Lines of the Farndale Family A matrix of the 84 family lines which make up the extended family will introduce you to every individual member of this family who can trace their origins to Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian England.	The Farndale Directory The original index of our family, in alphabetical order by date of birth, which will enable you to find an individual person if you know when they were born