The Leeds 1 Line

A family of shoemakers who moved to the Bramley district of Leeds

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The Story of the Leeds 1 Line

John Farndale was born in 1826 in Coxwold. He married Sarah Brittain in Leeds in 1856. They settled there, in Bramley, and had a family of eleven children (though many of them died young). John was a cordwainer (a cordwainer makes new shoes distinguished from a cobbler who mends shoes) in Bramley. Several of his children were also shoemakers.

Bramley experienced an industrial boom and an increase in population in the nineteenth century, mostly due to the development of the woollen textile industry in the early nineteenth century and due to the boot making and engineering industries in the later part of the century.

The genealogical chart showing the Leeds 1 Line

				The Ampleforth 1 Line
				John Farndale 17 October 1826 to 1902 A cordwainer in Leeds Married Sarah Ann Brittain (or Briitton) on 3 February 1856 in Leeds Coxwold, Bramley FAR00293
Joseph Farndale 1857 to 1891 Shoemaker Married Martha Hill or Emma Selby in 1883 Bramley FAR00426	Mary Elizabeth Farndale 1858 to 1861 Hunslet FAR00431	Alice Clark Farndale 1859 to 1864 Hunslet, Bramley FAR00438	Elias Farndale 1860 to before 1871? Bramley FAR00441A	Jethro Farndale 15 April 1861 to 26 August 1893 Shoemaker Bramley FAR00447	Peter Farndale 1862 Shoemaker Bramley FAR00451A	William Farndale 1863 to 1864 Died aged 1 Bramley FAR00456	Elizabeth Farndale 1865 to 1934 Shoemaker machinist Married John Gall in 1896 Bramley, Leeds FAR00436A The Gall Family	William Farndale 1868 to 1934 Married Jane Labourer and cartman/drayman of Bramley and Beeston, Leeds Bramley, Leeds FAR00491	Walter Farndale 1872 to 25 January 1922 Bramley, Cheshire FAR00514A	John Farndale 1871 to 1920 Shoemaker Bramley FAR00511
				Joseph Farndale 1 March 1896 to 18 September 1950 Married Minnie Brown in 1926 Probably Private Joseph Farndale, Army Ordnance Corps in WW1 Licensing Authority official Labourer and heavy worker Bramley, Leeds FAR00675				Alfred Farndale 19 February 1898 to 1978 Splitting machinist, Rag metal broker , broker and dealer Private in the 9^th Lancers n WW1 Leeds, Holbeck FAR00690			Frederick Farndale 26 July 1900 to 27 February 1964 Labourer and brickworks heavy worker Leeds, Holbeck FAR00701
		William Farndale 12 November 1926 to 2000 Married Rosemary Scarborough in 1950 Leeds FAR00901		Frank Farndale 1931 to 16 October 2016 Married Anne E Ewan in 1959 Leeds, Barkston Ash, Harrogate FAR00918	Marlene Farndale 1935 Married John Pratt in 1955 Wharfedale, Leeds, USA FAR00936
							Farndale-Worfolk?
				Andrew Farndale 1959 Married Sandra Mullen in 1983 Barkston Ash, Leeds FAR01099	The Pratt Family
		Allison E Farndale 1955 Married Kevin Holdsworth in 1976 FAR01071 The Holdsworth Family					Beverley Louise Farndale 1967 Leeds FAR01148

The Ancestry of the Leeds 1 Line

The Leeds 1 Line can trace back from William to the Ampleforth 1 Line as follows:

John Farndale (FAR00293), 1826 - 1902

The Ampleforth 1 Line

Jethro Farndale (FAR00218), 1790 - 1882

Elias Farndale (FAR00184), 1755 – 1831

Elias Farndale (FAR00147), 1733 - 1783

At the present time I have been unable to trace this line back to older lines of Farndales. With more research I may yet find the link to the direct Farndale history back to 1512. It seems likely that Elias will be linked to Farndales in other lines, and I am sure that all those using the Farndale name, are linked to the early family lines, such as the Kirkleatham Skelton Line, the Liverton 2 Line, the early part of the Kilton 1 Line, and the Kilton 2 Line. I am also sure that all Farndales will share in the medieval ancestry which is described in Volume 1 of the Farndale Directory.

Chronology of the Leeds 1 Line

First, Second and Third Generation

17 October 1826	John Farndale the Elder was baptised in Coxwold.
By 1841	John Farndale the Elder was a shoe maker’s apprentice to Richard Sivers in Easingwold. Easingwold is near his birth place, but perhaps as he drew into the shoe trade, he became drawn to Leeds, and Bramley in particular, which was becoming a centre of shoe making amongst other trades in the later part of the nineteenth century.
3 February 1856	John Farndale the Elder married Sarah Ann Brittain in Leeds. By now John was a cordwainer. A cordwainer is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather. The cordwainer's trade has been distinguished from the cobbler's trade, according to a tradition in Britain that restricted cobblers to repairing shoes. That said, the word cobbler has become widely used for folk who make or repair shoes The Oxford English Dictionary says that the word cordwainer is archaic, "still used in the names of guilds, for example, the Cordwainers' Company"; but its definition of cobbler mentions only mending, reflecting the older distinction.
1857	Joseph Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. He became a shoemaker himself in Old Hall, Bramley, and married Martha Tomlinson in 1883. He died in 1891, aged only 34.
1858	Mary Elizabeth Farndale, daughter of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. She died aged only 3 in 1861.
1859	Alice Clark Farndale, daughter of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. She died aged only 5 in 1864.
1860	Elias Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. He probably died in 1871.
1861	Jethro Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. Jethro was a shoemaker by 1891, in Bramley. He died aged only 32 in 1893.
1862	Peter Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. In 1878, Peter Farndale was a clerk in the town clerk’s office and by 1881, he was a shoemaker in Bramley.
1863	William Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. William died aged only 1, in 1864.
1865	Elizabeth Farndale, daughter of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. By 1881, Elizabeth was a shoemaker’s machinist, probably working for her father, in Old Hall, Bramley and she was still in that role in 1891. In 1896, she married John Gall and they had a son. John Gall was also a boot and shoemaker and she continued to work as a boot machinist. Elizabeth Gall died in Bramley in 1912.
1868	William Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. William was working as a labourer in Bramley by 1891. He married Jane Wright in 1895. After he married, he was a drayman and a carter in the Holbeck district of Leeds.
1872	Walter Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. Walter Farndale died in Cheshire in 1922.
1872	John Farndale the Younger, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. By 1891, he was a shoemaker in Bramley. He died aged 50 in Bramley in 1920.
1 August 1885	Leeds Mercury:
14 December 1895	(Warrington Examiner, 14 December 1895 and again in early 1896)
1 March 1896	Joseph Farndale the Younger, son of William and Jane Farndale, was born in Bramley. In 1911, Joseph was a ‘skiver’ – skiver is sometimes used to describe leather, so perhaps he was working with leather, maybe for the shoe making industry.
19 February 1898	Alfred Farndale the Younger, son of William and Jane Farndale, was born in Leeds.
16 July 1900	Frederick Farndale the Younger, son of William and Jane Farndale, was born in Leeds.
1902	John Farndale the Elder died in Bramley, aged 76.
6 March 1908	(Shipley Times and Express, 6 March 1908)
By 1911	Alfred Farndale was working as a splitting machinist in Holbeck.
1914-1918	Private Joseph Farndale served in the Ordnance Corps. Private Alfred Farndale served in the 9^th Lancers.
1926	Joseph Farndale married Minnie Brown in Bramley.
1930	(Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 21 April 1930)
1934	William Farndale the Elder died in Leeds. But not sure who this was: (Leeds Mercury 21 May 1934)
1937	Joseph Farndale may have been working with the licensing authority for York. But this may not be him.
1939	Joseph Farndale was working as a general labourer and heavy worker. Alfred Farndale was a rag metal broker in Leeds. Frederick Farndale was a general labourer and heavy brickworks labourer.
18 September 1950	Joseph Farndale died in Leeds. Alfred Farndale was a broker and dealer in Leeds.
6 March 1964	Frederick Farndale was buried at Cottingley Hall Cemetery, Beeston, Leeds.
1978	Alfred Farndale died in Leeds.

Third Generation

1926	William Farndale, son of Joseph and Minnie Farndale, was born in Leeds. William married Rosemary Scarborough in 1950. They had a daughter, Allison. William died in Leeds in 2000.
1931	Frank Farndale, son of Joseph and Minnie Farndale, was born in Leeds. Frank married Annie Ewan in 1959 and they had a son, Andrew, born in 1959. Frank died on 16 October 2016.
1935	Marlene Farndale, daughter of Joseph and Minnie Farndale, was born in Leeds. Marlene married John Pratt in 1955 and it is believed they emigrated to USA.