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The Farndales of Redcar

 

The Farndales of Recar were Matthew Farndale (FAR00297); George Farndale (FAR00451); John Thomas Farndale (FAR00473), estate land drainer of Redcar; Robert W Farndale (FAR00490); George Farndale (FAR00540). Farmer of Kilton Hall Farm. The last Farndale to live at Kilton Hall farm. He never married and lived there with his sister Grace Farndale who also never married. They lived much of their lives at Kilton Lodge. They retired from Kilton in 1940 and went to live at Redlands; Grace Farndale (FAR00566); George William Farndale (FAR00643); John Richard Farndale (FAR00681), killed in action in World War 1; Terrance S Farndale (FAR01008).

 

Redcar

 

Redcar is a seaside resort and town located in the borough and unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the North East of England and ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it lies 12.1 km east-north-east of Middlesbrough on the North Sea coast. The combined population of the wards of Coatham, Dormanstown, Kirkleatham, Newcomen, West Dyke and Zetland was 36,610 in the 2001 census decreasing to 35,692 in the 2011 census. It is part of the Teesside conurbation.

 

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1170

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: Redcar occurs by name in a charter of William de Argentein granting land there to Albert de Craster (Craucestria) as the marriage portion of his sister Cristiana.  Albert's sons William and Ivo were grown up before 1192, so that William's grant cannot be much later than 1170. Little is known of the place in early times.

 

1231

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: At the beginning of the 13th century three religious houses at least had land there, Fountains, Rievaulx and Guisborough, the last being given 43 acres more in 1231 by Ivo de Redcar. Rievaulx Abbey received permission from the third Peter de Brus to buy fish at Redcar apparently free of the toll which was one of the profits of both Brus and Fauconberg.

 

Fifteenth century

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: The dues from the boats of Redcar, known in the 15th century as 'Colybferne' or 'Colysferme,' were another source of income to the lords of Marske in the Middle Ages, and the market which in 1366 existed at Redcar had arisen, no doubt, mainly through the fishing.

 

Sixteenth century

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: In the 16th century the fishermen are described as venturing out to sea through the openings in the dangerous reef of rocks in 'cobbles' and selling a boatload of fish for 4s. or 5s. It was their custom then to change their fellows every year for luck, and to give a feast on St. Peter's Day, and in Ord's time the fishermen still held a fair or festival every year, but on the two days following Trinity Sunday.

 

1810

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: The place was beginning to be known in 1810 as a health resort; it had then, indeed, twelve bathing machines, but it was still mainly a fishing village of about 160 houses built down both sides of one street which was always covered with heaps of drift sand.

 

1828

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: Redcar, since 1828 a chapelry of Marske, and created in 1867 an ecclesiastical parish out of Marske and Upleatham, covers 881 acres, of which 176 acres are foreshore.

 

1841

 

Redcar had 794 inhabitants.

 

1846

 

After the opening of the Middlesbrough to Redcar Railway in 1846 Redcar became a regular destination for Victorian tourists. The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: Owing to the extension here in 1846 of the Stockton and Darlington branch of the North Eastern railway it developed rapidly as a fashionable watering-place of a quiet kind.

 

1850

 

Redcar's population expansion corresponded with Middlesbrough's, with the discovery in 1850 of iron ore in the Eston area of Cleveland Hills.

 

Redcar prospered as a seaside town drawing tourists attracted by eight miles of sands stretching from South Gare to Saltburn-by-the-Sea.

 

1857

 

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1859

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: Nathaniel Hawthorne lived at Redcar from July to October 1859 after his return to England from Italy, and here re-wrote and elaborated The Marble Faun.

 

1866

 

Plans for a pier were drawn up in 1866, but lay dormant until prompted by the announcement of plans to build a pier at Coatham in 1871.Coatham Pier was wrecked before it was completed when two sailing ships were driven through it in a storm. It had to be shortened because of the cost of repairs and was re-opened with an entrance with two kiosks and a roller-skating rink on the Redcar side, and a bandstand halfway along its length.

 

1875

 

Redcar Racecourse was created in 1875. Redcar Pier, another pier as well as Coatham Pier, was built in the late 1870s. In October 1880 the brig Luna caused £1,000 worth of damage to this pier. In New Year's Eve 1885 SS Cochrane demolished the landing stage and in 1897 the schooner Amarant went through the pier. A year later, its head and bandstand burned down.

 

1898

 

In October 1898 the Coatham Pier was almost wrecked when the barque Birger struck it and the pier was thereafter allowed to disintegrate. An anchor from the Birger can be seen on the sea front pavement close to the Zetland Lifeboat Museum.

 

1907

 

In 1907 a pavilion ballroom was built on Redcar Pier behind the entrance kiosk

 

1917

 

The town's main employers in the post-war era were the nearby Teesside Steelworks at Warrenby, founded by Dorman Long in 1917, and the ICI Wilton chemical works. The steel produced at Dorman Long was used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne Bridge, Auckland Harbour Bridge and many others. 

 

1923

 

The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: The main streets of the town, like those of East Coatham, of which they form the eastern half, run east and west: the esplanade along the sea-front is thus the continuation of Newcomen Terrace in Coatham and High Street of Queen Street West, while Coatham Road has the same name in both places. From this last Redcar Lane leads south to the road running from Marske to Kirkleatham. St. Peter's Church, the vicarage and the British schools, which were built in 1857 principally at the expense of the Earl of Zetland, are all situated at the northern end of Redcar Lane, the cemetery made in 1872 being further to the south. The Roman Catholic chapel of the Sacred Heart, erected in 1877, lies a little north-west of the cemetery. Still further to the west and close to the parish boundary is the race-course. The pier, constructed in 1871–3, is at the east end of the town near the Redcar Rocks, which here extend from the sands eastward into the sea. The Presbyterians have a chapel in High Street which formerly belonged to the Wesleyans and dates from 1872, while the Congregationalists in 1855 and the Primitive Methodists in 1860 built chapels in Lord Street.

 

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