The Hartlepool 1 Line

The Hartlepool 1 line spans five generations from Robert Farndale

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The Story of the Hartlepool 1 Line

Robert Farndale was a shoe maker and master boot maker of Hartlepool and founded a five generation family of Hartlepool Farndales. He traces back to the Great Ayton 3 Farndales and this line can trace directly back to 1512. His family of 7 were associated with Hartlepool and over time some of this family moved to Bradford, South Shields, and Darlington.

The genealogical chart showing the Hartlepool 1 Line

The Great Ayton 3 Line

Robert G Farndale 9 February 1834 to 14 January 1900 Married Mary Butterwick on 5 October 1862 Master boot and shoe maker of Hartlepool Stainton, Barwick, Great Ayton, Hartlepool FAR00326

John George Farndale 1864 to 31 January 1927 General labourer and cement trimmer Hartlepool FAR00459

Eliza Farndale 1865 to 1867 Died aged 1 Hartlepool FAR00469

Henry Farndale 5 March 1869 to 1952 A sailor, barman, and later Acting Sergeant in Royal Field Artillery in First World War and probably a seaman for most of his working life Married Elizabeth Armin in 1892 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00495

William Farndale 28 February 1872 to 1948 Labourer at poultry farm, fitter Marred Elizabeth Shackleton in 1902 Hartlepool, Darlington FAR00515

Elizabeth Farndale 1874 to 1 May 1915 Domestic servant who lived with her brother John George Farndale for a while Hartlepool FAR00528

Robert Farndale 10 November 1877 to March 1936 Married Ethel Barrett Private in King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Labour Corps and Royal Sussex Regiment in WW1 Hotel Manager and barman Hartlepool FAR00552

Mary Hannah Farndale 24 October 1884 to 1965 Married Charlie Fox in 1907 Burler and mender, worsted industry Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00596 The Fox family

Ethel Farndale 1 July 1894 to 1926 Fish Dealer’s Assistant at Hartlepool Married Sidney Burns in 1916 Hartlepool FAR00666

Hilda Farndale 13 November 1895 to 1946 Married Fred Wager in 1920 (presumably the brother of Hezekiah Wager, who married Olive) Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Bradford FAR00672

Edith Farndale 19 August 1897 to 1953 Married George Blackburn in 1920 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00680

Olive Farndale 22 January 1899 to 1989 Married Hezekiah Wager in 1922 (presumably the brother of Fred Wager, who married Hilda) Hartlepool, Stockton, Bradford FAR00692

Henry Farndale 25 April 1902 to 1948 Public Works Contractor’s Labourer and at timber merchants Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00714

John Armin Farndale 22 March 1904 to 1984 Married Charlotte Georgeson in 1932 and Mary Haigh in 1959 Coggie Tram Driver and steel and iron works Stockton, Hartlepool Bradford, South Shields FAR00728

Doris Farndale 24 March 1906 to 1996 Married John North in 1940 A fly frame spinner in Bradford Stockton, Bradford FAR00736 The North Family

Robert George Farndale 14 February 1909 to 1978 French polisher, merchant navy, publican Married Winifred Sibley on 11 August 1934 Lived in Stockton, Hartlepool and then Bradford FAR00755

James Armin Farndale 1 September 1911 to 1981 General Labourer Married Elizabeth Gurney in 1948 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00778

William Farndale 21 February 1913 to 1980 Married Harriet Hirst in 1937 but he was widowed by 1939 Engineer Hartlepool, Bradford, Chesterfield FAR00796

Elizabeth Farndale 1915 to ? Married Arthur Stephenson in 1938 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00814

William Robert Farndale 11 May 1903 to 6 May 1995 Married Alfreda Brown in 1936 Oiler on LNER Railway and joiner Darlington, Hartlepool, Leeds FAR00720

Lillie (Lily, Lillian) Farndale 8 September 1904 to 2005 Married Albert Bedford in 1944 Hairdresser Hartlepool, Darlington She lived to 101 FAR00725 The Bedford Family

Sidney Farndale 1 October 1907 to 25 November 1978 Married Ethel Robinson in 1934 General Labourer Stockton, Darlington FAR00746

Reginald Farndale 31 August 1913 to 1969 Married Annie Reed in 1942 Moulder’s Labourer Darlington FAR00799

The Burns Family

The South Shields 1 Line

The Bradford 1 Line

The Wager Family

The Wager Family

Linda Farndale 10 October 1948 Married Rodney Simpson in 1990 Bradford FAR01034 The Simpson Family

James Henry Farndale 4 June 1954 Married Carole Thornton in 1975 and Lesley Baldwin in 1996 Served with 1st Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers, then lived in Yorkshire Bradford, Bangor (NI), Birkenhead FAR01064

Ian Farndale 30 November 1960 Married Annette Beaumont in 1980 Bradford, Cleveland FAR01105

Richard A Farndale 1965 Halifax FAR01138

Colin Robert Farndale 4 May 1934 to 2002 Married Marjorie Y Sanderson in 1955 Darlington, Durham, Stockton FAR00932

Gordon William Reginald Farndale 1943 to 22 July 2011 Married Olwyn Lewis in 1965 and Heather Nightingale in 1967 Darlington, Richmond FAR00986A Andrew D Farndale 1965-1965 Died aged 0 Darlington FAR01131

Elaine Farndale 1968 Darlington, Stockton on Tees FAR01161

Martin Michael Farndale 5 July 1976 Bradford FAR01212

Natasha Elizabeth Farndale 22 January 1978 to 2011 Died aged 33 Birkenhead, London, Tadworth, Croydon FAR01218

Jaffe Francis Farndale 1990 Croydon FAR01289

Oteri Comfort Farndale 1991 Sutton, Surrey FAR01298

Liam James Farndale 1997 Bradford FAR01337

James Ian Farndale 1979 Bradford FAR01225

Ria Louise Farndale 1983 Bradford FAR01248

Thomas William Farndale 1986 Bradford FAR01267

Susan C Farndale 1956 Married Frederick Cain in 1983 Darlington, Cleveland FAR01083

Stuart T Farndale 1964 Stockton on Tees FAR01129

Farndale = Elia? Bradley Antonio Farndale 1999 MMN Elia Sutton, Surrey FAR01349

The Cain Family

Robert William Farndale 10 July 1907 to 1909 Hartlepool Died aged 1 FAR00743

Wilfred Farndale 3 October 1909 to 15 July 1976 Hartlepool, Oxford FAR00761

Eva J Farndale 28 February 1916 to 4 August 1960 Married John W Langhorne in 1942 Shop Despatch Clerk Hartlepool, Darlington FAR00826 The Langhorne Family

The Ancestry of the Hartlepool 1 Line

The Hartlepool 1 Line can trace directly back to 1512 from Henry Farndale to Nicholas Farndaile as follows:

Robert G Farndale (FAR00326), 1834 – 1900

The Great Ayton 3 Line

Henry Farndale (FAR00229), 1795 - 1857

The Kilton 1 Line

Samuel Farndale (FAR00149), 1735 – 1797

William Farndale (FAR00130), 1708 - 1789

John Farndale, (FAR00116), 1680-1757

The Liverton 2 Line

Nicholas Farndale, (FAR00082), 1634-1693

The Kirkleatham Skelton Line

Georgins Ffarndayle, (FAR00073), 1602-1693

George Ffarndayle, (FAR00067), 1570-1606

William Farndale, (FAR00063), 1539-?

Nicholas Farndaile (FAR00059), 1512-1572

You can then follow details of Farndale in the medieval period who were almost certainly earlier ancestors at Volume 1 of the Farndale directory.

You can then explore Yorkshire prehistory to give you a further perspective of the distant ancestry of the people of Farndale.

Chronology of the Hartlepool 1 Line

The First and second generation

9 February 1834	Robert George Farndale was baptised at Stainton now southern Middlesbrough. His father was a hind (a term for an agricultural labourer) at Barwick, nearby.
By 1841	The family were living in Great Ayton.
5 October 1862	Robert married Mary Butterworth, the daughter of a blacksmith, in West Hartlepool. Robert was a shoemaker.
1864	John George Farndale was born in Hartlepool. He became a cement trimmer. He died aged 63 in West Hartlepool in 1927.
1865	Eliza Farndale was born in Hartlepool. She died aged 1 in 1867.
5 March 1869	Henry Farndale was born in Hartlepool. By the age of 22, in 1891, he was a sailor, based in Hartlepool. He married Elizabeth Armin in 1892. They had eleven children over 19 years. In 1901, he was working as a barman in Middlesbrough, but was back in West Hartlepool working as a shipwright’s labourer by 1911. By 1921, he was an Able Seaman in the mercantile marine, working with the Eagle Oil Transport Company (which operated oil tankers between the Gulf of Mexico and UK, founded in 1912 and sold to Royal Dutch Shell in 1919), although he was out of work that year. He was a retired seaman by 1939, living in Bradford. He died in Bradford in 1952, aged 83.
28 February 1872	William Farndale was born in Hartlepool. In 1901, he worked as a hotel barman in Stockton. He married Elizabeth Shackleton in Hartlepool in 1902. They had four children. He later worked on a poultry farm and later as a fitter’s labourer for J Finsley Limited, hauling engineers at Westfield Engine Works in Darlington. He seems to have married Asneath sometime after 1921. He died in Darlington in 1948, aged 76.
1874	Elizabeth Farndale was born in Hartlepool. She was a domestic servant by 16, in Hartlepool and later lived with her brother, John George Farndale. She died aged 43 in Hartlepool in 1915.
10 November 1877	Robert Farndale was born in Hartlepool. By the age of 28, when he married Ethel Barrett, he was a hotel manager. They had three children. He joined the Labour Corps ad the Royal Sussex Regiment in the first world war. He died in Hartlepool in 1936.
10 April 1879	Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail:
24 October 1884	Mary Hannah Farndale was baptised in West Hartlepool. She married Charlie Fox in 1907 in Bradford. Charlie worked as a motor car fitter’s labourer and they had two children. She died in Bradford in 1965.
2 July 1892	In 1892, Robert George Farndale was involved in the proposal of Christopher Furness, a steamship owner and shipbuilder, as the Liberal candidate for West Hartlepool.
14 January 1900	Robert George Farndale, a master boot and shoe maker, died of pneumonia in West Hartlepool at the age of 67.

The third generation

1 July 1894	Ethel Farndale, daughter of Henry Farndale was baptised in Hartlepool. She was a fish dealer’s assistant in Hartlepool and married Sidney Burns in 1916. She died in Hartlepool in 1926, aged only 31.
13 November 1895	Hilda Farndale, daughter of Henry Farndale was born in Hartlepool. She married Fred Wager in 1920 and they lived in Bradford until they moved to Bradford by 1939. She died in Bradford in 1946.
19 August 1897	Edith Farndale, daughter of Henry Farndale was born in Hartlepool. She married George Blackburn, a commercial lorry driver, in Bradford in 1920. She died in 1953.
22 January 1899	Olive Farndale, daughter of Henry Farndale. She married Hazekiah Wager in 1922 and they moved to Stockton and then Bradford. She died in 1989.
25 April 1902	Henry Farndale, son of Henry Farndale was born in Hartlepool. By 1921, he was a general labourer with timber merchants in Hartlepool and by 1939 was a public works contractor’s labourer. He married Maria Pratchett in 1940. He died in Bradford in 1948.
11 May 1903	William Robert Farndale, son of William Farndale, was born in Hartlepool. By 1921 he was an oiler with the north eastern railway company at Bank Top Railway Station in Darlington. He married Alfreda Brown in 1936. He died in Darlington in 1995.
27 March 1904	John Armin Farndale, son of Henry Farndale was born in Stockton. By 1921, he was a coggie tram driver at a plate rolling mill with the South Durham Steel and Iron Company in Hartlepool. He married Charlotte Georgeson in 1932 in Bradford and they had two sons, born in South Shields. He seems to have travelled to Michegan, USA in 1957. He married Mary Haigh in Bradford in 1959 and he died in Bradford in 1984. He is founder of the South Shields 1 Line.
8 September 1904	Lillie (Lilian) Farndale, daughter of William Farndale, was born in Hartlepool. She was later a hairdresser in Darlington. She married Albert Bedford in 1944. She died in 2005.
24 March 1906	Doris Farndale, daughter of Henry Farndale was born in Stockton. She later moved to Bradford where she was a fly frame spinner. She married John North in 1940. She died in Bradford in 1995.
10 July 1907	Robert William Farndale, son of Robert Farndale was born in Hartlepool. He died aged 1 in 1909.
1 October 1907	Sidney Farndale, son of William Farndale, was born in Stockton. He married Ethel Robinson in Darlington in 1934 and they had two sons. He worked as a labourer in Darlington. He died there in 1985.
4 November 1907	(Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail)
14 February 1909	Robert George Farndale, son of Henry Farndale was born in Stockton. He was a French polisher in 1934, when he married Winifred Sibley in Bradford. They had a family of six and he founded the Bradford 1 Line. He died in Bradford in 1993.
3 October 1909	Wilfred Farndale, son of Robert Farndale, was born in Hartlepool. He died in Oxford in 1976.
1 September 1911	James Armin Farndale, son of Henry Farndale was born in Hartlepool. He married Elizabeth Gurney in Bradford in 1948, and they had three children. He died in Bradford in 1981.
21 February 1913	William Farndale, son of Henry Farndale, was born in Hartlepool. He married Harriet Hirst in Bradford in 1937. He was an engineer. He died in Chesterfield in 1980.
31 August 1913	Reginald Farndale, son of William Farndale, was born in Darlington. He was a moulder’s labourer before he married Annie Reed in 1942. He died in Darlington in 1991.
1915	Elizabeth Farndale, daughter of Henry Farndale, was born in Hartlepool. She married Arthur Stephenson in 1938 in Bradford.
28 February 1916	Eva J Farndale, daughter of Robert Farndale, was born in Hartlepool. She married John Langhorne in 1942. She died in 1960.

The fourth generation

4 May 1934	Colin Robert Farndale, son of Sidney Farndale, was born in Darlington. He married Marjorie Sanderson in 1955 in Darlington. They had two children. He died in 2002 at Stockton.
1943	Gordon William Reginald Farndale, son of Sidney Farndale, was born in Darlington. He married Olwyn Lewis in 1965 and they had a son, but she died that same year. He later married Heather Nightingale in 1967. He died in Richmond in 2011.
10 October 1948	Linda Farndale, daughter of James Armin Farndale, was born.
4 June 1954	James Henry Farndale, son of James Armin Farndale was born.
30 November 1960	Ian Farndale, son of James Armin Farndale was born.
1965	Richard A Farndale, son of James Armin Farndale was born.