The First Family Tree
The Farndale Family from about 1230
to about 1500
We cannot
know the precise relationships between the individuals who comprised our early
ancestry before the sixteenth century. From the thirteenth century, surnames
were only starting to be used to define families in a modern sense and the
records did not record details of births, deaths and marriages.
However the
rooting or our name to a small valley in rural Yorkshire, provides us with a
beacon linked to a particular place. This focuses our search geographically.
The uniqueness of the name also helps searches of the medieval records. It
turns out there are numerous
sources in the medieval records which tell of multiple events
tied to many different individuals, which help to piece together our story.
Occasionally the records even tell us the make up of
small family groups.
Using that evidence it is possible to build a plausible model to fit
the evidence of which we know.
It appears
that the earliest members of our family who took the Farndale name were the
settled inhabitants of Farndale itself; their restless sons who poached in the
royal forests; and the pioneers who later left Farndale not so long after its
early cultivation, to settle in new places.
The
genealogical table below is a likely model, based on extensive medieval
evidence, of how our early family might have looked. It will not be completely
accurate. You can change assumptions and find a different model to define our
early ancestors’ relationships to each other. However
it is the result of careful analysis of the known facts. We have documentary evidence of each of these
individuals and their stories. The aspect of this model that might be subject
to some fluidity, is how they mesh together.
With only a
few exceptions, the evidence we have does not provide dates of birth or death, but provides snapshots in time which help to build
their stories. The dates below are therefore provided as estimates,
but are generally the subject of interpretation of the evidence we do
have.
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The
Farmers of the lands around Kirkdale of
Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian descent
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c1230 to
c1310 Bailer of
his son Alan in 1280
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c1233 to
c1315 Paid taxes
in the Eyre Court in 1280 |
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c1263 to
c1330 A poacher
in Pickering Forest in 1280 |
c1264 to
c1335 The Miller
of Farndale
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c1255 to
c1325
Tenant in
Danby in 1301 |
c1270 to
c1327
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c1273 to
c1345
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c1275 to
c1345 Had a gift
of land in Martin in 1300 Excommunicated
for poaching and contempt of the authority of the church in 1316 |
c1276 to
c1345 Excommunicated
for poaching and contempt of the authority of the church in 1316 |
c1280 to
c1350 Gave bail
for Roger, son of Gilbert Farndale in 1334 |
C1281 to
c1350 |
c1255 to
c1340 A poacher
in Pickering Forest in 1280 (with his
cousin, Alan?) and a miller and poacher in 1335 |
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c1275 to
c1340 Roger
bailed John, son of Abba in 1334 |
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c1290 to
c1352 An appeal
against him for the death of John de Maunby in 1320 Poacher in
Pickering in 1323 |
c1295 to
c1360 Poacher in
Pickering in 1332 and 1335 He may
have been Robert
the Smith of Farndale |
c1285 to
c1360
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c1300 to
c1370
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C1302 to
c1370 C1303 to
c1375 |
c1303 to
c1372 Excommunicated for poaching in 1324 Paid taxes
in Crofton de Artoft in 1327 and 1333 (possibly Crofton near Pontefract)
Saddler
and freeman of York in 1363 |
C1305 to
c1375 |
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Roger
Milne (Miller) of Farndale c1295 to
c1370 Slew a
soar in Pickering Forest in 1330 and
evaded justice for several years |
c1296 to
c1360 Fined for
poaching in Pickering Forest in 1332 |
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c1305 to
c1375
c1335 to
c1400 Joined a
commission to investigate dilapidations at a priory in Shropshire |
William,
Smith of Farndale The Younger C1306 to
c1380 William
stole deer and other goods at Egton in 1348 and assaulted the locals |
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c1332 to
c1397 A Chaplain
of Derleye in 1310 William
Farndale of Caleys was pardoned for the death of
John de Spaldyngton (south of York) in 1370 |
c1330 to
c1415 Vicar of
the Parish of Doncaster from 1397 to
1403 Landholder
at Loversall |
c1332 to
c1400 Paid the
1379 Poll Tax in Doncaster and married
Alicia
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c1334 to
c1405
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c1365 to
c1450 Involved
in a significant cattle and horse rustling expedition in 1384 and a
trespasser in Stillington near Stockton in 1445 |
c1357 to
c20 December 1435
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c1359 to
c1420 |
c1361 to
c1420 |
c1365 to
c1440 Sheriff Hutton and Gowthorpe |
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c1352 to
c1425 Archer in the
wars with Scotland in 1383 to 1389 Likely
lived in York Butcher
and freeman of York in 1408 Likely
trader in the Medieval Shambles, the street of butchers |
c1354 to
c1414 Man at
Arms with Thomas Mowbray in the wars with Scotland in 1389 |
c1356 to
c1416 Archer
with Thomas Mowbray in the wars with Scotland in 1389 |
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c1409 to
c1480 Witness to
the Wars of the Roses from the lands of the Nevilles and Richard III |
c1411 to
c1482 Witness to
the Wars of the Roses from the lands of the Nevilles and Richard III |
c1413 to
c1483 Witness to
the Wars of the Roses from the lands of the Nevilles and Richard III |
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c1425 to
c1490 In 1493,
his widow Rose Farndale sued for a tenement, garden and two fields in Doddinghurst, Brentwood, which she said had been bought
by William from John Reignold
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c1460 to
c1530 Rector at South
Stoke, Sussex in 1500 and presented to the College of the Holy Trinity in
1508 |
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c1484 to
c1554 In Lythe
in 1524 |
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