The Farndale Family Website
The Story of the Farndale
family
Farmers, pioneers and soldiers
One Family’s Journey through
Two Thousand Years of British History
The Farndale Directory is a listing of all Farndales linked to their individual web pages |
Various themes associated with the Farndale history and relevant social history |
A Link to the Farndale Story |
Particular branches of the family tree A direct link to separate individual Farndale Lines within the wider family |
This page provides information about research methodology |
General
Sir Martin Farndale KCB Biographical notes about the originator of this research |
This page provides links to genealogies of other related families (including and Bakers, Halls) |
Welcome to the website of the history of
the Farndale family
Martin Farndale, the Pioneer of the Farndale Genealogy The Farndales of Tidkinhow 1910 Joseph Farndale 1842 to 1901, Chief Constable of Birmingham The Coat of Arms of General Sir Martin Farndale KCB
(John, James, Alfred, William, George, Martin
(inset))
Dictum meum pactum (“His word is his bond”)
Three
Purposes of this Website
A Family
Story. For Farndales and Descendants of Farndales. The first
purpose of this web site is to make available genealogical and historical
information about the Farndale Family to descendants of the family, whether or not they still adopt the surname.
A
Historical Journey. For Historians, Local Historians, and those with an
interest in Yorkshire and its History. This is also the story of one large
extended family and its footsteps through the history of Britain, focused on
its Yorkshire origins, over two millennia. It invites you to follow in the
footsteps of a related group of individual lives which tells the story of
Yorkshire and of Britain through time.
A
Genealogical Journey. For Genealogists. It is also a genealogical journey which
pushes the boundaries of genealogical research, to provide the whole story of a
single family, reaching into medieval records. It provides breadth and depth,
exploring how genealogy can tell the detailed story of a family, brought alive
by stories through time.
Three
Ways to access the information
The
Farndale Story. Please start by visiting the Farndale Story,
a hub which will provide orientation and guide you through the story of the
family. This is a new part of the website and most of the pages of the Story
will be written over the next few months aiming to have most of it done by
about January 2025. Until then you will find much of the Story is work in progress.
The
Family Branches. The detailed research is provided through individual pages
providing the detailed chronology of every member of the Farndale family
divided into 84
family lines, each of which has its own Family Tree.
The
Farndale Directory. The genealogical material was originally structured by Martin
Farndale using the Farndale Directory,
a list of each individual in chronological order by
date of birth. This is still available in case it is helpful to find
information that way.
Related
Families and Records
The Baker
Story. The website also tells the story of the Baker Families of
Highfields, and of Fenton Culvert and Hasfield
Court. This includes material about the Hall Family of
Staffordshire, the Bellyse
of Staffordshire and the Dods
of Highfields.
The
Chapman Family. There is also a simpler genealogical exploration of the Chapman Family
of Walter Chapman.
Regimental
Records. The material collected by Martin Farndale also provides a
unique history of First
Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 1950 to 1971 and the early years of the Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst.
The
History of the Website
This
website is the culmination of work started by Martin
Farndale in 1956 and continued by his son
Richard since 2000.
General
Sir Martin Farndale KCB died in May 2000. During his lifetime, he carried
out extensive research into the Farndale family history. This website has been
compiled by his son, Richard Farndale and continues this research which is made
available to anyone who may be interested. The site was first published on 6
November 2001, and after a few years off line, was
re-published from March 2019.
After
nearly 75 years of work over two generations, the genealogy is aspiring to be a
uniquely thorough genealogy of a non aristocratic British family, tracing the
family origins back to the Norman Conquest and beyond and comprising a
historical record of a single wider family. Work continues but the site already
provides significant depth and detail. What makes this record unique is the
thorough research by Martin and collation of a wide breadth of direct family
records and recollections, which can now be enhanced by twenty first century
search methods.
The Farndales descend from the folk who made up the
engine room of British history. For the bulk of such families, it is generally
very difficult to go back in time much beyond about 1500. However
the Farndales are privileged to have a locative name, which is rooted to a
place. What is more that place is a relatively small, rural valley in North
Yorkshire, which provides a uniqueness which helps research of early medieval
records. The name therefore provides a unique beacon which makes navigating the
medieval sources a possibility. This has made it possible to find significant
records of individuals back to the thirteenth century. The history of the place
where we know our ancestors made their home, enables us to take their story
further back in time to Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, and Roman times. We are
extraordinarily privileged to be able to see back that far.
Martin
Farndale’s historical research began: 1956
Site
First Published by Richard Farndale (at www.farndale.info): 6 November
2001
Site
Second Published by Richard Farndale (at www.farndalefamily.co.uk): 6
December 2014
Site
Third Published by Richard Farndale (at www.farndalefamily.co.uk): 16
March 2019
Site Last
Updated: 19 July 2024
Contact
Me
You can
contact me at rcfarndale@hotmail.com.
Please
pass on details of the site to Farndale relatives, those interested in
Yorkshire history, historians and genealogists. It is free to use, and intended
as a source of material for all those who can benefit from it.
The best
way to view this site
I suggest that you read the Farndale Story on a PC or tablet. An
iphone will work, but the text may not always align
properly.
The more detailed research pages are primarily intended for use
on a PC. This is because the site is intended for the provision of detailed
information, more suited to the larger format of a PC. However, it does work
quite well on a tablet, such as an ipad. On an iphone it may sometimes tend to
be distorted with text not always aligning, though you can generally read text
and it should work ok with an iphone too.
Personal
Information
I do not
wish to record detailed information about living Farndales unless I know that
you are happy for me to do so. This site is about historic Farndales who are no
longer alive. As a rule I only record the most basic
publicly available information about living Farndales, primarily their year of
birth. This is so that anyone who wishes, can find themselves in the directory
or in family trees, and then use this site to explore their ancestry.
Where I
am aware of public information about living Farndales, on their own websites,
or public entries on the web which is available
already, I have sometimes included that information on personal pages of living
Farndales.
If you
find your own entry on this website and would like me to include more
information about your part of the family, please let me know. Please don’t
provide me with any information you would not wish to be publicly available.
I think it is very unlikely that I have recorded any information on the site
which people would prefer to keep private, but if there is any information on
this site which you would prefer not to appear, please email me at rcfarndale@hotmail.com, and I will remove it.