The Farndale Story

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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

Themes Links to other pages with historical research and related material

Related Family Stories The story of the Bakers of Highfields, the Chapmans, and other related families

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A Journey through time, following in the footsteps of one family.

The Time Traveller’s Handbook

When you first visit the Farndale Story, please read the Time Traveller’s Handbook before using the Matrix for the first time.

Quick Key

I suggest that you start by reading the Orientation, top right of the matrix in a light green box.

The Numbered Stories in thirty three Acts take you on the main journey into the past. You’re best to read them in the numbered order, starting with the light blue shaded box. However more rebellious readers can travel through time in a more random order if that is what you prefer.

The Explainers tell of places and historical events, and of historical factors which influenced our family’s story. They provide a little more depth as you visit different eras of time.

The Thirty Objects and Places take you on a geographical tour, and provide directions if you would like to visit our ancestral lands in person. You will come into contact with places and objects that will put you in direct contact with the family through time. If you have a chance to take a trip to the ancestral lands of the Farndales, you might find the geographical guide helpful, which will enable you to plan a route.

The Farndale Folk are a few of our ancestors waiting to be introduced to you, to further enhance your journey through time.

All these pages are full of hyperlinks. These will take you to the underlying research if you would like to explore in more depth, or check the source material. Every member of the Farndale family has his or her own webpage. The hyperlinks will take you to individual family members’ records; to family trees; to further information within the wider website; and sometimes to links outside the website or source material.

After reading the Orientation, scroll down to the early thirteenth century to find the first Act of the story.

The Time Traveller’s Matrix

The Time Traveller’s Handbook The Guide to getting the best use of this matrix for future reference				Kirkdale Cave A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home	Kirkdale Cave The start of the Victorian discovery of modern scientific method			Orientation Moors, dales and vales An overview guide and introduction to the three distinct landscapes which defined our history
	Star Carr The richest Mesolithic suite in Britain, a few miles south of Scarborough, on the edge of the ancient Lake Pickering, only 30 km from Farndale	The Ryedale Windy Pits Underground caves, only 15 km from Farndale, which were the home of the Bronze Age Beaker Folk	Roulston Scar A massive Iron Age promontory Hill Fort only 20km from Farndale	2 – The Primeval Swamp The Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, Mesolithic evidence of the people of the immediate vicinity to Farndale			A Journey through the ancestral lands Some help if you have a chance to go on a geographical tour of the family history	Glossary An alphabetical list of words and terms which you might come across during your travels, which are explained here
Introduction to Kirkdale and its Minster For those particularly interested in Kirkdale, this introductory page is the place to start		Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) The Roman Regional Capital	Hovingham A Roman Villa on palatial scale	3 – Roman Kirkdale The lands which would become the lands of Kirkdale and Chirchebi in Roman and Pagan times, 71 CE to 580 CE	Beadlam A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the heart of our ancestral lands	Eboracum (York) The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor	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
	A place of wild beasts and men who lived like wild beasts Bede’s description of the wilderness of Farndale as a place of dragons and wild beasts	Lastingham 653 CE The founding of a Celtic Christian monastery by Cedd, 2 km from the entrance to Farndale Visiting Lastingham The village and church of Lastingham, with its Norman crypt	Synod of Whitby 664 CE The momentous agreement at Whitby, 30 km northeast of Farndale, which resolved the incompatibilities between Roman and Celtic Christian traditions, and placed Britain onto the European stage	4 – Anglo Saxon Kirkdale Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Anglo Saxon Period, 580 CE to 793 CE	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	Carlin How and Saxon Witches The burial ground of a Saxon princess who lay for thirteenth centuries overlooking the Hill of Witches where the Craggs line of Farndales would later make their home	The Kirkdale Saxon Artefacts Ornate sarcophagus lids and Saxon artefacts to be found in Kirkdale Minster and embedded into its walls which will transport you to the Eighth century CE
		Jorvik Museum York A reconstructed Journey into Scandinavian Yorkshire and a glimpse of Scandinavian objects which tells its story	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	5 – Scandinavian Kirkdale Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Scandinavian Period, 793 CE to 1066	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	Beowulf The poem which takes us into the Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian mindset
		House Mowbray The descendants of Nigel D’Aubigny who defined our family’s lives in the twelfth century ‘Bending the knee’	House Stuteville The descendants of Robert de Stuteville who defined out family’s lives in the eleventh and then from the late twelfth century	6 – Game of Thrones The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate from 1066 to 1200	Rievaulx Abbey This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154	Rievaulx Abbey The breathtaking abbey ruins that must have been held in astonished awe by our forebears when the abbey broke through the soil of Ryedale, adjacent to Farndale, in only a couple of decades before it started to take control of swathes of those lands	House Brus The baronial Yorkshire family from whom later Scottish Kings would derive and who dominated the early history of our later Cleveland home	The Royal Line and the Noble Houses The relationship between the Royal Dynasties of England and the Noble Houses who directly influenced our family history
	Medieval Farming Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest	A Drive through Farndale A journey to places in Farndale which featured in a 1301 tax register, marking out the geography of the place our ancestors settled	The Farndale Rim A look down into Farndale to take in its scale and landscape, from the place where the Roman Purse was dropped Perhaps also, a hike to Middle Head, the Lord of the Rings land of Midelhovet, where Edmund the Hermit once dwelled	1 – The Cradle Thirteenth Century Farndale Clearing the dale to build our new home Start Here	Nicholas de Farndale c1230 to c1310 Perhaps the earliest identifiable individual member of our family, who cleared and then settled in Farndale	Simon The Miller of Farndale c1264 to c1335 The wealthiest tenant in Farndale in 1301	The Story of Farndale to 1500 The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500, to accompany the family story	The First Family Tree A possible model which relies on extensive medieval evidence, to suggest the most likely family tree of our earliest ancestors
	Pickering Parish Church Glance up at a remarkable medieval mural, which includes archers who might remind us of our poacher ancestors	Pickering Castle The sombre Norman castle of Pickering, where you will be taken to the law court where our ancestors were fined, imprisoned, outlawed and excommunicated.	The Great Yorkshire Forest Drive A drive through Dalby Forest, the modern Pickering Forest, where our forebears took game in contravention of forest laws, or were caught and punished by the verderers and regarders of the forest	7 – 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	Richard and Thomas of Farndale Excommunicated for poaching and contempt of the authority of the church in 1316	Roger Milne of Farndale c1265 to c1340 Slew a soar in Pickering Forest in 1293	Robert de Farndale c1266 to c1340 Fined for poaching in Pickering Forest in 1293 and 1332	William Smyth of Farndale c1295 to c1370 Poacher of a hind and a calf in 1330 and repeat offender in 1336	John Farndale c1365 to c1450 Involved in a significant cattle and horse rustling expedition in 1384
		Danby Danby at the turn of the fourteenth century	De Willelmo de Farndale c1265 to c1335 A relatively wealthy tenant who had left Farndale for Danby in the North York Moors but adopted its name	8 – The Pathfinders Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places	De Johanne de Farndale c1273 to c1345 A relatively wealthy tenant who had left Farndale for Egton and Rosedale
The Shambles The street of the Medieval Butchers	9 –The Merchants of York The Merchants of York York 1066 to 1500 A History of York after the Norman Conquest	Johannes de Farendale c1303 to c1372 A Saddler made freeman of York in 1363	Johannes de Farndall c1334 to c1405 A freeman of York in 1397 through patrimony from his father	Johannes Fernedill c1352 to c1425 John Farndale, and his brothers Henry and William, were archers and men at arms called to fight in Scotland in 1389 John was later a butcher made freeman of York in 1408	Sheriff Hutton Church The Church of St Helen and the Holy Cross and the Chapel of St Nicholas, the heart of the Neville lands, and place of the alabaster effigy of the young son of Richard III	The History of Sheriff Hutton to 1500 A history of Sheriff Hutton which will take you to the lands of the Nevilles and Richard III during the Wars of the Roses Plantagenet rivalry An Explainer of the dynastic struggles of the Plantagenets leading to the Wars of the Roses for important context House Neville This history of the family who influenced the Wars of the Roses	10 – Medieval Warfare Tales of archers and men at arms who fought with Henry V and an observation post in the home of the Nevilles and Richard III from which to view the Wars of the Roses	Richard Farndale c 1357 to 20 December 1435 A veteran soldier of the armies of Richard II and Henry V who fought in the French and Scottish Wars.	William Farndale c 1332 to 1397 A chaplain, who was pardoned for killing John of Spaldington and later established his family in Sheriff Hutton, where he was a person of some wealth.
	St Mary Magdalene Church, Campsall The church in Barnsdale forest of which the literary character of the Middle Ages, Robin Hood, wrote I made a chapel in Bernysdale, That seemly is to se, It is of Mary Magdaleyne, And therto would I be. Nearby sites associated with Robin Hood including Robin Hood’s Well at the side of the A1	Medieval Doncaster and its minster The Victorian Parish church (later Minster) of Doncaster rebuilt in 1853, but on the site of the earlier Parish church of which William Farndale was chaplain and later vicar in the years after the Black Death	Nicholaus de ffarnedale 1332 To 1400 He paid the 4d Poll Tax of 1379 which led to the Peasant’s Revolt	Sir William Farndale C1330 to c1415 The Chaplain and Vicar of Doncaster, who held lands at Loversall, of whom we have significant records	11 – The Vicar of Doncaster The Family of William Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster	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.	Loversall The history of a small village and church just south of Doncaster, where William Farndale held land	Campsall and Barnsdale Forest The history of the village of Campsall north of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century	Robin Hood The legend of Robin Hood explored for its Yorkshire roots, and the Farndale connection with the legends, first as the class of poachers who gave rise to the inspiration, and later their fifteenth century descendants who lived in the place where the stories emerged
			Nicholas and Agnes Farndale The most likely paternal and maternal ancestors of modern Farndales, who died in Kirkleatham having emigrated with their family into Cleveland	12 – Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in Cleveland	William and Margaret (nee Atkinson) Farndale The couple who married at St Mary Magdalene Church in Campsall north of Doncaster, and who emigrated to Cleveland and were buried in Skelton.	Kirkleatham A history of Kirkleatham and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland	Skelton A history of Skelton and its own church. The Farndales arrived in Moorsholm in the Parish of Skelton in about 1588 and lived there through the tumultuous years of the Civil War
Charles Farndale Took over the farming of Kilton Hall Farm where he farmed 577 acres	William Farndale Farmer of Kilton and a merchant of wood, rods, coals, salting bacon. Martin Farndale Farmer at Kilton Hall Farm of 600 acres George Farndale The last of the Kilton Farmers	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	Johnny Farndale “Old Farndale of Kilton”, the patriarch of the Kilton Farndales, regaler of smuggler tales, alum merchant and farmer, of whom the Squire once said “When you are gone, there will never be such another Johnny Farndale”	13 – The Farmers of Kilton The story of the Kilton Farndales, a family who dominated a lost village over two centuries The First Hub	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 our family	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	John Andrew The Smuggler Chief The grandfather of Martin Farndale’s wife Elizabeth Taylor, no doubt in league with the c17th Farndales. When the local folk whispered Andrew’s Cow has calved, everyone knew the goods had arrived. The wealthy John Andrew later became master of the Cleveland Hunt.	Cats Nab, Old Saltburn Have fish and chips in the Ship Inn, and you will be in the home of John Andrew’s smuggling trade, once connected by an underground passage to the white house on the hill where my great x3 grandfather lived	14 – Spreading out from Brotton and Loftus The story of a substantial division of the family who spread widely across Cleveland and beyond from Kilton, Brotton and Loftus The Second Hub
Giles Farndale Press ganged into the Royal Navy, Giles served on HMS Experiment in the Spanish Main during the War of Jenkins Ear where he died and was buried at sea	John Farndale John Farndale served alongside James Cook, discoverer of the Southern Continent, on colliers out of Whitby	James Cook The association of James Cook with Cleveland, Whitby, Great Ayton, and the Farndale ancestral lands	The History of Whitby to 1850 A history of Whitby at the height of its maritime power in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, home to several large Farndale families. A look back to the Anglo Saxon history of Whitby in the time of Celtic and Roman Christianity	15 – The Mariners of Whitby The story of the Whitby Farndales who settled in the bustling port of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries The Third Hub	A Perspective of Whitby The place of Dracula inspiration where many Farndales have been buried, provides a vantage point over Whitby, and its maritime activity	John Chistopher Farndale The story of the merchant master mariners, John Christopher Farndale Senior and his sons William and John and their epic maritime adventures around the English coast, to the Baltic, Russia and Scandinavia and to Biscay, the site of a tragic disaster	Yearsley The home from the early eighteenth century of a large section of our family	16 – Return to the Vale of York The Ampleforth Farndales who returned south of the North York Moors to Yearsley near Ampleforth The Fourth Hub
Self sufficiency and Sustainability before the Modern Age A step back to explore the self sufficient lifestyles of our forebears as an inspiration to modern sustainability	Agricultural change How agricultural practices changed over time	Poverty Our family history includes experiences of high infant mortality in Victorian times, often extreme poverty, and struggle Health The evolution of medical care	Ambition A story of aspiration and achievement Victorian Education The education of our forebears Children The life of children in seventeenth century to Victorian Yorkshire	17 – 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	John Farndale The Author A man of sphinxian complexity who wrote extensively and has passed down stories of our family and of change in early Victorian Yorkshire	Saltburn by the Sea, Victorian new town John Farndale focused much of his writing on the new seaside town of Saltburn by the Sea, built beside the Old Saltburn of smuggling repute. It was a place of Victorian optimism and inspiration, driven by the arrival of the railways and the richness of Cleveland’s ironstone deposits.	Ironstone Mining The engine of Cleveland’s Victorian development was its mineral supply, particularly its ironstone. Our family would work in an extensive network of mines throughout the area. Service Opportunities for work as servants in households	Alum Ou family was also directly involved in the important alum trade.	Huntcliff, Saltburn by the Sea Find a vantage point on the awesome Hunt Cliffs to look down over Saltburn and Cat Nab, and the alum mines of our ancestors. It was here, John tells us, that when a French Napoleonic ship threatened out to sea, a band of local women dressed in red along the cliffs to make the French believe that an army of redcoats was ready to welcome any attack.
	18 – The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for iron stone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland	Kilton Mine The ruined site of the Kilton mine		19 – Dark Satanic Mills The many families who lived in Leeds, Bradford, Coatham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton through the period of industrial transition			20 – The Southerners The story of the folk who left Yorkshire and travelled to London and elsewhere in the south of Britain
			Joseph Farndale CBE KPM The Chief Constable of Bradford who pioneered the use of fingerprints, invented the police box, and played a key role in Bradford’s evolution at the start of the twentieth century	Joseph Farndale The Chief Victorian Constable of Birmingham who foiled a Jack the Ripper Hoax and played a key role in uncovering the Ledsam Dynamite Conspiracy	21 – The Victorian Policemen To contrast with the medieval outlaw poachers of Pickering Forest, the story of the law makers including two influential Chief Constables and the real Inspector Foyle	Thomas Henry Farndale An inspector of crime during the Second World War ‘The real Inspector Foyle’.
22 – Great Ayton The story of the large families of Great Ayton	Joseph Farndale The father of a large Great Ayton family, who was a cartwright	Great Ayton A visit to Great Ayton where many members of the family lived, and a side trip to the James Cook Monument	Matthew Farndale Matthew and Hannah Farndale and their daughters Mary and Elizabeth embarked on a 14 week voyage to Melbourne to establish a new lineage in Australia	23 – The Australians The story of Matthew Farndale and his two daughters who emigrated to Melbourne during the Australian Gold Rush and settled at Birregurra, who have left a wealth of descendants, though none still bearing the Farndale name. Another Australian family of the 1960s		24 – The Ontarians Upon his return from the Crimean War, John George Farndale took his family to Ontario in 1870. At about the same time Samuel Kirk Farndale took his family to Ontario		Pioneers The pioneering spirit that dominated the family’s story from the mid nineteenth century
	The Lindsays The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay’s family	Martin and Catherine Farndale The parents of a family of twelve born on a moorland farm, who spread across Britain and North America	Tidkinhow The story of the moorland farm of Tidkinhow	25 – The Farndales of Tidkinhow The remarkable 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	Tidkinhow The moorland farm of a large family	The Craggs Hill Farndales The story of Matthew Farndale and his family of Craggs Hall Farm	The Railwayman The story of John Farndale and his family who moved to Loftus
	John Martin Farndale The grocer who emigrated to Newfoundland	26 – The Newfoundlanders In 1910 John Martin and Bessie Farndale emigrated to Newfoundland and established a grocery business in St John’s. His son joined the Artillery in World War 2 and lived to be the oldest Farndale		The Bakers of Highfields The Story of the Baker Family of Highfields A portal into another family, the ancestors of Peggy Baker, who married Alfred Farndale	Alfred Farndale and Peggy (nee Baker) Farndale The World War 1 veteran, Alfred Farndale married the independently minded Peggy Baker in 1929 and embarked immediately for the Prairie of Alberta. Defeated by the Great Depression the family returned to Yorkshire where they built a new life from the 1930s	Martin Farndale and siblings Martin Farndale was the first of his family of 12 to emigrate to Alberta and was soon joined by four brothers and two sisters who were pioneers of the prairie	27 – The Albertans The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow who left Yorkshire for a new life on the Prairies	Atlantic crossings at the time of Titanic The story from the detailed diary kept by Jim Farndale of a crossing of the Atlantic the year before the Titanic sank in the same seas, and a train journey across Canada to establish a new life on the Prairie	Life on the Prairie Life on the Prairie of Alberta
		Jim Farndale A remarkable 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	28 – The Americans The family of Jim Farndale, US Senator, who settled in Neveda and California; the descendants of George William Farndale who settled in Illinois and Wisconsin; and the family of John Alan Farndale, of California		29 – The New Zealanders The New Zealand pioneers, descendants of Ronald Martin Farndale of Masterton, and of Wilf Farndale, of Gisborne	Ronald Martin Farndale Captured at the Battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa, Ronald emigrated to New Zealand where his descendants still live	Wilf Farndale An aircraft engineer in Bristol, Wilf emigrated to New Zealand
30 - Newcastle and South Shields The many members of the family who settled in South Shields and Jarrow	John William Farndale (“Newcastle Johnny”) The Youngest Jarrow Marcher	The Jarrow March 1936 The story of the Jarrow March of 1936, of which Johnny Farndale, was the youngest member		31 – The Presbyterians William Farndale was a railway porter who became a presbyterian missionary and his son, William became President of the Methodist Conference in 1947, leading a ‘back to the soil’ campaign	Religion Exploring the role of religions of various denominations and its influence on the family	Rev Dr William Edward Farndale The influential Primitive Presbyterian who became head of the Presbyterian Church shortly after the Second World War
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 our family’s history	John George Farndale A remarkable person who provided us with an eye witness account of the Crimean War before taking his family to a new life in Ontario	The Crimean War The Crimean War through the perspective of John Farndale, who took part in the long campaign	32 – The Soldiers An exploration of the many military members of the family, and their stories	Bernard Farndale An airman shot down over Denmark after a bombing raid, and secretly buried by the Danish resistance	Lancaster Flight ME 718 The story of the shooting down of Lancaster ME 718	General Sir Martin Farndale KCB The original author of this genealogy who led the British Army and Northern Command of NATO in the crucial years of the Cold War	The Farndale Cocktail An explosive blend of Farndale firepower
			William Leng Farndale Brewer and Northumberland Hussar of Rothbury, Northumberland	33 – The Modern Family A final chapter which explores the twentieth century family and reflects on how the family has spread its wings in the more recent years of the twenty first century	John Thomas Farndale The Bank Manager of Thirsk	Wilfred Farndale The family who worked in Sir Titus Salt’s Saltaire Mills including a Sanitary Officer and Cricketer	George William Farndale The member of the Yorkshire Mummers and the story of the Farndale entertainers
Perspective Laying our Ancestors Back in the sun The genealogist’s ambition Exploring the Cave Peering through chambers to our ghostly beginnings The depth of generational experience A long term perspective		The Known Unknowns The family history is remarkably complete. We explore here where it has been necessary to rely on the most probable narrative where certainty has been impossible		Telling the story of Our Female Ancestors The historical record is not properly representative of our female ancestors. As a historian it is important to found our narrative on the evidence which exists. However by reflecting on the existing evidence, and applying a fresh analysis, we can recover the story of the Farndale women, even though the underlying evidence has not recorded everything they did					The 84 Family Lines of the Farndale Family Meet the whole family. A matrix of the 84 family lines which make up the extended family will introduce you to every individual member of this family who can trace their origins to Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian England.
	Inspiration from our back story What we can take from our journey through two thousand years of history Finish Here	The Story of the Farndale Story Building the story over two generations	Time Travel Some reflections on new approaches to genealogy and historical research to allow families to come into contact with their deep ancestral history	Genealogy Some notes on the sources and methods used to compile and bring alive the lineage of a family	Medieval Genealogy A recognition of some restrictions to genealogical research before 1500, but some ideas to help overcome the constraints	How to turn BMD into stories A reflection of the importance of records of births, deaths and marriages, and census records, but some ideas about how to build on that framework to create stories and pathways through regional and national history	Genealogy and History Some thoughts on the relationship between genealogical methods with historical research, to uncover the full picture		The Farndale Directory The original index of our family, in alphabetical order by date of birth, which will enable you to find an individual person

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