The geography of the Farndales
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This page provides a
gazetteer of those places associated with the Farndale family. The locations
are arranged by concentrically widening the spread from our ancestral home
around the North Yorkshire Moors. Click on locations to explore the history of
those locations and also those members of our family, and family lines,
associated with each location.
The valley of Farndale
The Cradle of the Farndale family is the North Yorkshire moors, originating in the valley of Farndale itself. The first
mention of Farndale was in the chartulary of Rievaulx.
Emigrations
southward
Those who first described themselves as de Farndale, were those
adventurous and pioneering soles, who ventured out to new places. The Farndale
family come from a stock of pioneers and
adventurers. At first they ventured south to Pickering,
York, Doncaster and Sheriff Hutton.
The Farndales of Cleveland
In the mid sixteenth century, the family ventured north of the
North York Moors and became focused around Cleveland.
If there is a town in the early
recorded history of the modern Farndales, which is focal to the history of the
Farndale family, it is Kilton.
We don’t find any evidence of Farndales in Cleveland
before 1572. After 1572, we find almost all Farndales, and all Farndales who
are ancestors of the Kilton lines from which I and most others descend, in
Cleveland. So we have to explain how the Farndales who had become concentrated
solely south of the North York Moors before the first record in 1572, came to
move into Cleveland, such that they were predominantly clustered north of the
North York Moors after 1572.
It is believed that Nicholas Farndale (FAR00059)
and Agnes Farndale (FAR00060),
who both died in Kirkleatham, were born in Campsall or thereabouts, around
Doncaster, perhaps in about 1512 and 1516 respectively. If so, they were likely
descended from William Farndale (FAR00038),
the Vicar of Doncaster, or at least from his wider family (his brother
perhaps). William Farndale junior (FAR00063)
was born in say 1538, and Jean Farndale (FAR00064)
in say 1540 to Nicholas and Agnes. William Farndale married Mary Atkinson at
the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Campsall in 1564. Between 1564 and 1567, the
family moved to Kirkleatham. We don’t know why. Maybe that was Agnes’ ancestral
home. Perhaps more likely Jean had met Richard Fairly, a relatively well
established fellow, whose family were Scottish, but who had more recently
become associated with Cleveland and Kirkleatham. Perhaps the family saw
opportunities by a move north. On 16 October 1567, Jean married Richard Fairley
in Kirkleatham. The family lived generally at Kirkleatham until Nicholas and
Anne’s death in 1572 and 1586, though William had by then realigned slightly
eastward, to Skelton. This established the family tree
for the Doncaster-Kirkleatham-Skelton
Line of Farndales.
The family started to be associated with the Cleveland towns and
villages of Boosbeck, Brotton, Coatham, near Charltons,
Great Ayton, Guisborough, especially at Kilton, Kirkleatham, Liverton, Loftus, Lythe, Middlesborough, Moorsholm, Redcar, Saltburn by the Sea, Skelton, Stokesley, Tidkinhow and Whitby.
Two Farndale
families emerged around Scarborough.
By 1733, a large
group of the family emerged around Ampleforth. See also Huttons Ambo.
The Rest of Yorkshire and
Durham
Families then emerged at Bedale, Bradford, Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Leeds, Middleham, Northallerton, Stockton, Wakefield and Wensleydale.
Leyburn and Wensley, the heart of the Wensleydale family
Northern England
Other Farndale family groups could be found in Carlisle, Cockermouth and Newcastle
(especially Jarrow and South Shields).
Southern England
Inevitably families emigrated to London and to West Sussex, Hampshire
and Surrey.
Emigration overseas
From the mid eighteenth century,
some members of the family emigrated to Australia, Canada (Ontario, Newfoundland and
Alberta around Huxley, Three
Hills, and Trochu), USA, and New Zealand.
Map showing key
Farndale emigrations.
Alberta
The Tidkinhow Line
became associated with Alberta, and
particularly Huxley, Three Hills and Trochu.
Newfoundland
The Newfoundland Farndales found home in Newfoundland.
Ontario
The Ontario Farndales and The
Second Branch of the Ontario Farndales found home in Ontario,
especially around Oshawa.
USA
The American Farndales became associated with California, Chicago, Dallas, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, and New York,
Australia
The Australian Farndales became associated with Birregurra, Geelong and Melbourne.
New Zealand
The
New Zealand Farndales and the New Zealand 2 Line became
associated with parts of New Zealand.
Elsewhere
Keith
Farndale, of the
Newfoundland Line, has retired to the interior of Mexico.