The America 1 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from Jim Farndale and Edna Adams, who settled in the United States having emigrated via Canada

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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

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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 America 1 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

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.

			John Joseph Gilbert Adams II 1620 to 10 October 1696 Married Frances Elizabeth Taylor (1626 to 1696) Watertown, Middlesex, Cambridge, Lexington, Massachusetts, Fairfax, Virginia
			George L Adams III 29 May 1650 to 17 February 1733 Married Martha Fiske (1688 to 1747) on 28 February 1683 Concord, Middlesex, Lexington, Massachusetts
		John Adams 1688 to 1774	Benjamin Adams 20 December 1701 to 26 December 1784 Married Eunice on 27 October 1723 Cambridge, Chelmsford, Lexington, Worcester, Middlesex, Massachusetts	Martha Adams
John Adams 1735 to 1826 Served as the second US President from 1797 to 1801 Could he be related?
John Quincy Adams 1767 to 1848 Served as the sixth US President from 1825 to 1829			Micajah Adams 11 February 1728 to 28 October 1791 Married Mary Stark (1738 to 1793) Lexington, Massachcetts, Plainfield, Connecticut, Meriden, New Hampshire	William Adams	Eunice Adams
		Simeon Adams Senior 23 January 1742 to 29 January 1817 Married Elizabeth (1770 to 1817) Groton, New London, Connecticut, Oswego County, New York	Eliphalett Adams 1753 to 1757
Simeon Adams (1790 to 1876), David Adams (1791 to 1820), Nancy Adams (1800 to 1821), Samuel Adams (1800 to 1821), Elizabeth Adams (1802 to 1820),	Sarah Adams (1803), Thebe Adams (1806 to 1820), Mariah Adams (1810 to 1821), Almira Adams (1811 to 1821), John Adams (1815 to 1820), Elias G Adams (1816 to 1884)	Elias G Adams 6 September 1816 to 8 March 1884 Married Eleanor E Eggleston Oswego County, New York
Elizabeth Adams 1853	John W Adams 1854	George H Adams 1856	Adelbert Eugene Adams 18 December 1858 to January 1949 Married Sarah J Shinabarger Oswego County, New York, Porter, Indaiana, Vermont, California	Rosa Adams 1861	Abram L Adams 1866 Eva L Adams 1866 to 1924
		The Tidkinhow Line
		James (“Jim”) Farndale 22 December 1885 to 20 January 1967 Ironstone miner, carpenter, Carpenter’s Union leader, US Senator for Nevada Tidkinhow, Alberta, Nevada Married Edna Ellen Adams on 25 September 1917 FAR00607	Edna Ellen Adams 31 May 1894 to 27 November 1979 La Porte, Indiana	Angie Hazel Adams 1892 to 6 November 1967
Hazel Jane (“Janie”) Farndale	James Noel (“Jimmy”) Farndale	Mary Ellen Farndale	Gordon Elliott Farndale		Doris Farndale
19 September 1922 to 28 February 1996 Married John Elief Rydell on 20 December 1941 California and Austin, Texas FAR00881	25 December 1923 to 20 April 1989 Served with the US Army Air Corps in WW 2 and later worked for Braniff Airways Married Jean (nee Fraser) Smith in 1955 California and Garland, Texas FAR00889	19 December 1926 to 5 June 2010 Worked in a chemical laboratory Married Samuel Mentzer Nevada, California FAR00902	15 April 1932 to 18 April 2005 Nevada and California Married Sherrill Hostetler in 1952 and Alberta Allen on 21 May 1977 FAR00924		20 August 1935 to 3 September 1955 She married James D Jaeger in about 1955 (who served in the air force in Japan) Killed in a car accident Las Vegas, Nevada FAR00938
John Ellis Rydell 1942	Kermit Leon Rydell 1945	Charlie Mentzer	Cynthia Lee Farndale 9 November 1956 to 12 December 1956 Los Angeles, Las Vegas	Mark A Farndale 1958 Los Angeles, West Hollywood, California Stables owner FAR01092	Linda Farndale (Bruno) 1961 Thousand Oaks, California, Arizona FAR01111

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

The Deeper Ancestry of the America 1 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the America 1 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the America 1 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
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	The Americans Scene 1 is the story of the family of Jim Farndale, US Senator, who settled in Nevada and California.	The America 1 Line	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	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 Soldiers The context of the Second World War

Jim Farndale’s visit to Alberta family in 1931 Jim Farndale’s visit to Yorkshire in 1954

Martin Farndale (second from left), the original author of this genealogical research, with Jean (Jimmy’s wife), Janie and Jim at Foot Hood, Texas in August 1986

The lineage of Edna Adams

I have a rough sketch out of the lineage of Edna Ellen Adams. It is worth further exploration as to whether her family might be linked to the Second US President, John Adams (1735 to 1826) who served as President from 1797 to 1801, and his son, the sixth, John Quincy Adams (1767 to 1848), who served from 1825 to 1829, but I haven’t yet joined the dots.