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The story of the Wakefield 1 Line

Samuel Farndale was born in Wakefield and became a clerk of works. He then moved south to Portsmouth before settling in London. This is the story of his family.

					The Wakefield 1 Line
					Samuel Farndale 5 May 1866 to 14 July 1936 Married Pollie Chesters on 25 May 1895 Grandson of FAR00262 and lived with him for a time, Clerk of Portsea who later lived in London The son of an innkeeper, he was a clerk of works who also sang comic songs at soirees Later, a clerk of Portsea who then lived in London and worked in the civil service with the Admiralty rising from clerk to clerk to the engineer in chief FAR00475
Ethel Chesters Farndale 1 May 1896 to 1964 Married Arthur Sidney Hart on 6 September 1924 Civil Service Clerk Portsea. Wandsworth, Croydon FAR00674	Gertrude Farndale 1897 to 15 December 1897 Died aged 2 hours old. Portsea FAR00685	Thomas Henry Farndale 12 September 1899 to 10 May 1964 Telegraphist in Royal Navy Reserve in WW1 Married Hilda Marion Judith Edwards in 1934 Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in 1939 Brixton, Lambeth, Farnham, Surrey, Uckfield, Sussex FAR00699		Frank Farndale 27 October 1901 to 1987 Married Lily Laver on 6 September 1930 Accounts Clerk Wandsworth, Croydon, Coulsdon, North Walsham, Norfolk FAR00708	Walter Reginald Farndale 4 January 1906 to 5 July 1974 Married Mary Maquire in 1935 Civil Servant and Administrative Clerk with Imperial Airways Wandsworth, Westminster, Hammersmith, Lambeth FAR00735		Samuel Farndale 1907 to 1912 Died aged 5 Guisborough FAR00741	Hilda Margaret (Mary) Farndale 24 August 1907 to 14 August 1980 Married Frederick Moore in 1942 Shop assistant leather goods Croydon, Kingston upon Thames FAR00749	Madge (Bobby) Farndale 13 July 1911 to 25 March 1990 Shop Assistant, Chemist Married Alexander Brown in 1961 Croydon FAR00772 ??	Ella Farndale 3 October 1904 to 1986 Married a Farndale probably in Hendon area Not yet identified who FAR00727
The Hart Family								The Moore Family
									Wendy E Farndale 1943 Lincoln, Croydon FAR00984
	Thomas Charles (or Chesters) Samuel Farndale 22 February 1935 Married Diana Mary Sibbick in 1965 Surrey FAR00937	Gerald Clifford Farndale 20 February 1936 Married Ethel Isles in 1960 and Judith Peacock in 1972 Surrey, Folkestone, Bath, Bristol FAR00941		Jennifer Farndale 7 October 1937 Married John Robert Bird in 1959 Surrey FAR00950	Anthony Reginald Chesters Farndale 25 July 1936 Married Anita Jean Lea in 1964 Note the common name Chesters with FAR00937. Both named after their grandmother Emigrated to USA. Westminster, California FAR00944	Susan Angela Mary C Farndale 6 November 1939 Married Michael Kellaway in 1981 Westminster, Croydon FAR00959	Patrick John Farndale 13 April 1948 Westminster FAR01029
				The Bird Family		The Kellaway Family
Sarah Judith Farndale 1967 Married James Weston in 1998 Surrey, Lewes, Sussex FAR01147	Helen Rose Farndale 1969 Surrey, Kingston upon Thames FAR01163		Guy Howard Farndale 1974 Bath, Somerset, Coleford, Gloucestershire FAR01205	Simon Timothy Farndale 1977 Bristol FAR01219
The Weston Family				Elowen Brown-Farndale 2023 FAR01460

The Ancestry of the London 1 Line

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

Samuel Farndale (FAR00475), 1866 - 1936

The Wakefield 1 Line

Thomas Farndale (FAR00344), 1839 – 1919

The Whitby 5 Line

John Farndale (FAR00262), 1818 – 1874

John Farndale (FAR00210), 1788

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 London 1 Line

5 May 1866	Samuel Farndale was born in Wakefield.
6 December 1884	(South London Press)
1889	Samuel Farndale was a humourist at a soiree in Wakefield in 1889. Was he the Farndale comedian? (Wakefield and West Riding Herald, 2 March 1889) (Wakefield and West Riding Herald, 9 March 1889) QUITE ENGLISH, YOU KNOW. 1885, by J. F. Valois. What queer things we see, and what queer things we do, That's English, you know, quite English, you know; And now its the rage, and 'tis something quite new, It's English, quite English, you know. We're out of the fashion, unless we're agreed To follow wherever they lead; To dress just as they do, to look as they do, It's English, quite English, you know. Chorus. It's English, you know, quite English, you know, How queer are the people, it's English, you know; We copy their ways, we pay for their plays, It's English, quite English, so English, you know. They sent us an actor to show us the way, That's English, you know, quite English, you know; He showed us his manner of playing a play, It's English, quite English, you know. We studied his walk, and copied his dress, We puffed him well up in the press; Some said he was trash, but he gobbled our cash, It's English, quite English, you know.-Chorus. They sent us a boxer from over the sea, That's English, you know, quite English, you know; He came just to visit this land of the free, It's English, quite English, you know. He played the drop game when at Madison Square And this with a heart free of care; He managed to join on with hard Yankee coin, It's English, quite English, you know.-Chorus. Wakefield Free Press, 2 November 1889: But he was also a clerk of works at the time, on an annual salary of £65: Wakefield Free Press, 11 January 1890:
By 1891	Samuel Farndale was a clerk of works in Wakefield.
25 May 1895	Samuel Farndale (by then a clerk living in Portsea) married Pollie Chesters in Nantwich, Cheshire.
1 May 1896	Ethel Chesters Farndale, daughter of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born in Portsea. Ethel worked as a clerk for the Admiralty (like her father) for a while and married Arthur Hart in 1924 – they had two children. Ethel Hart died in 1964 in Edmonton, Middlesex.
1897	Gertrude Farndale, daughter of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born in Portsea. She died aged only 2 hours old and is buried at Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth. They lived in Fratton, Portsmouth at the time.
12 September 1899	Thomas Henry Farndale, son of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born in Brixton.
By 1901	Samuel Farndale was a clerk with the admiralty living in Wandsworth, London.
27 October 1901	Frank Farndale, son of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born in Wandsworth.
4 January 1906	Walter Reginald Farndale, son of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born in Wandsworth.
1907	Samuel Farndale Junior, son of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born. Samuel died in 1912, aged 5.
24 August 1907	Hilda Margaret (Mary) Farndale, daughter of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born in Croydon. Hilda became a shop assistant in leather goods and married Frederick Moore in 1942. She died in Kingston upon Thames in 1980.
By 1911	Samuel Farndale Senior was an admiralty accountant clerk now living in Croydon.
13 July 1911	Madge (Bobby) Farndale, daughter of Samuel and Pollie Farndale, was born. Madge or Bobby married Alexander Brown in 1961 in Croydon. She died in Kingston upon Thames in 1990.
1914 – 1918	Thomas H Farndale served in the Royal Navy Reserve in London as a telegraphist.
By 1920	Frank Farndale was a cricketer and a footballer for Brookside. Walter Farndale joined his brother as a footballer by 1925.
By 1921	Samuel Farndale Senior was a civil service clerk for the Civil Engineer in Chief at the Admiralty, still living in Croydon.
6 September 1930	Frank Farndale, a clerk, married Lily Nellie Laver at St Stephen, Norbury and Thornton Heath, Croydon.
1934	Thomas Farndale married Marion Judith Edwards in Surrey.
1935	Walter Reginald Farndale married Mary A Maquire at Hammersmith.
22 February 1935	Thomas Charles (or Chesters) Samuel Farndale, son of Thomas and Marion Farndale, was born in Surrey. Thomas married Diana Sibbick in 1965 and they had two daughters.
20 February 1936	Gerald Clifford Farndale, son of Thomas and Marion Farndale, was born in Surrey. Gerald had two sons.
14 July 1936	Samuel Farndale Senior died at St Peter’s Hospital, Westminster.
25 July 1936	Anthony Reginald Chesters Farndale, son of Walter and Mary Farndale, was born at Westminster. Anthony emigrated to USA in 1958 and married Anita Jean Lea in Monterey, California in 1964.
7 October 1937	Jennifer Farndale, daughter of Frank and Lily Farndale, was born in Surrey. She married John Bird in 1959 and they had two daughters.
By 1939	Thomas Farndale Senior was working in the Police Criminal Investigation Department (“CID”), living in Farnham. Frank Farndale was an accounts clerk with a brick manufacturer. Walter Reginald Farndale was an Administrative Clerk with Imperial Airways.
6 November 1939	Susan Angela Mary C Farndale, daughter of Walter and Mary Farndale, was born at Westminster. Susan married Michael Kellaway at Caxton Hall, Croydon in 1981.
By 1943	Walter Reginald Farndale was a temporary civil servant and his financial affairs were regulated because they had been impacted by the War.
13 April 1948	Patrick John Farndale, son of Walter and Mary Farndale, was born at Westminster.
7 April 1960	Pollie Farndale died.
10 May 1964	Thomas Henry Farndale Senior of the Plough Inn, Dormansland, near Lingfield, Surrey died.
5 July 1974	Walter Reginald Farndale died while living at 18 Callingham House, Clapham, North London.
1987	Frank Farndale died in North Walsham, Norfolk.