The Bishop Wilton Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

A large family living at or near Bishop Wilton who then moved to the Tadcaster area and Bradford

 

 

 

  

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The Story of the Bishop Wilton Line

William Farndale was the eldest son of Elias Farndale of Windgate Farm, Coxwold. He and his brother Elias (and in time the family of his other brother, Jethro) moved east of York to the area around Bishop Wilton, Malton and Huttons Ambo.

The family then moved west to the Tadcaster area and became associated with the villages of Aberford and Bramham (now adjacent to the A1) and Barwick in Elmet. Many of the family were drawn to the worsted industry in Bradford and further west to Lancashire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ampleforth 1 Line

 

 

William Farndale

21 October 1788 to 1871

Married Margaret

Ampleforth, Coxwold, Bishop Wilton, Pocklington

Agricultural labourer

FAR00220A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Farndale

1 August 1822 to 25 March 1899

Bishop Wilton, Malton, Tadcaster

Married Mary (Ann, Esther?) Leppington before 1846

Labourer and shepherd

FAR00281

 

Elizabeth Farndale

27 October 1826 to 15 December 1913

Wife of a farm worker with a large family near Pocklington

Married Daniel Hague

Bishop Wilton, Pocklington, Kilnwick Percy, Thwing, Millington

FAR00294

 

 

 

 

The Hague Family

 

Sarah Farndale

23 June 1829 to 1862?

A servant

Married John Simpson on 5 February 1851

Bishop Wilton, Pocklington, Kirby Underdale

FAR00304

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Simpson Family

 

Robert Farndale

17 June 1832 to 21 December 1877

Gardener of Wandsworth, London

Bishop Wilton, Putney, Wandsworth

FAR00318

 

[Leonard Farndale]

2 December 1834

Bishop Wilton

Twin

However lack of records suggest there may have been no Leonard Farndale

FAR00329

 

[Elias Farndale]

Born 2 December 1834

Bishop Wilton

Twin

However lack of records suggest there may have been no Elias Farndale

 

FAR00330

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Farndale

1846 to 1886

Married Richard Nutton

Pocklington, Aberford, Leeds, Tadcaster

FAR00369

John Farndale (Farnell)

23 April 1849 to 18 August 1893

Married Catherine (Kate)

A worsted spinner of Bishop Wilton who died aged 43 as the result of an accident

Bishop Wilton, Bramham Park

FAR00379A

Thomas Farndale

1852 to 1929

Bishop Wilton, Tadcaster, Hunslet

Married Mary Hannah Weighill in 1880

Shepherd, cattleman, farm labourer

FAR00394

 

 

 

Mark Farndale

1854 to 1944

Pocklington, Bishop Wilton, Barwick in Elmet, Tadcaster, Selby

Married Hannah Varley in 1874

Gasman

FAR00408

Margaret Farndale

1861 to 1927

Lodgekeeper

Aberford

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George Farndale

17 September 1864 to 1940

Aberford, Tadcaster, Ireland (Molenan), Wetherby, Bramham cum Oglethorpe

A farm labourer

Married Minnie in Ireland in about 1900

FAR00453A

 

 

John W Farndale

19 December 1875 to 26 November 1963

Married Annie Thomson in 1898 and Jane Wade in 1911

A horseman and later a gardener

Bickerton, Swillngton, Tadcaster, Aberford, Wetherby, Walton in Ainsty

FAR00545

 

George Farndale

30 September 1877 to 15 May 1954

Agricultural labourer

Married Mary Agnes Graham in 1906

Bickerton, Aberford, Tadcaster, Clayton Le Moors, Blackburn, Great Harwood, Saxton

FAR00557

Mary Farndale

1882 to 1962

Married William Kendrew, a quarryman, on 10 February 1904

Saxton, Aberford

FAR00586A

 

 

The Kendrew Family

Thomas Farndale

1885 to ?

Horseman on farm

Saxton

FAR00601B

Alfred (Fred) Leperton Farndale

1885 to 13 July 1901

Pony driver underground pit

Died aged 16

Saxton, Aberford

FAR00605

Alice Farndale

5 September 1889 to 1977

Saxton, Aberford, Blackburn, Burnley and Pendle, Lanchashire

FAR00633A

?

 

Minnie Farndale

13 February 1892 to 1946

FAR00650

Robert Farndale

1850

Married Caroline Lester 16 August 1869

Carpenter of Putney

Wandsworth, Putney

FAR00362

John Farndale

23 April 1849 to 8 July 1906

Married Emily Eliza Greenwood

Possible military service with the Grenadier Guards 1868 to 1872

Barton le Street, Appleton le Street, Hackney, Bethnal Green

FAR00379

Error – move to possible son of William Farndale FAR00258, Ampleforth 1

 

 

 

 

Ethel Farndale

23 April 1884 to 1969

Dressmaker

Manston, Barwick, Hunslet, Leeds

FAR00590

George Weighill Farndale

World War I: Battle of Arras (1917)

1886 to 3 May 1917

Warehouseman. An infantryman in the first world war who was killed in action at Arras during the Third Battle of the Scarpe

FAR00617

(William) James Farndale

9 September 1900 to 1953

Garden labourer and later an estate gardener on the Bramham Estate of the Lane Fox family

Private in the West Yorkshire Regiment, enlisted in October 1918 immediately on becoming of age

Born in Ireland (Londonderry), Bramham

Married Annie Thompson in 1933

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Margaret Annie Farndale

10 September 1901 to ?

Housekeeper

Marred Ernest W Smith in 1934

Bramham, Wetherby

FAR00709

The Wetherby Line

 

Gladys Farndale

4 December 1907 to 22 January 1996

 A cotton weaver by age of 13. A domestic servant.

Clayton Le Moor, Blackburn

FAR00747

Annie Farndale

14 November 1909 to ?

Married Walter Harrison in 1934

Clayton Le Moors, Blackburn, Great Harwood

FAR00760

Annie Farndale

1870 to 1948

Domestic Cook

Married Frederick C Bennett in 1929

Turnham Green, Putney

FAR00503

Edith Farndale

12 October 1872 to 1960

Domestic Housemaid

Married Harvey or Harry James Stilwell in 1899

Putney

FAR00521A

Theresa Farndale

1877 to 26 September 1922

Domestic Cook

Putney

FAR00549

Emily Anne Farndale

1876 to 1877

Bethnal Green

FAR00544

 

John Robert (“Jack”) Farndale

16 February 1879 to 22 March 1958

Married Annie Graham in 1906.

Customs and Excise Officer

Hackney, Bethnal Green, Canterbury, Poole, Thanet

FAR00561

Horace Ernest Farndale

1882 to 4 April 1921

Post Office Telegraphist

Married Rosalie Mole in 1907

Bethnal Green, Hackney, Ealing

FAR00584

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annie Eliza Farndale

1872 to 1938

Married Francis (Frank) Robinson on 13 December 1902

Clayton near Bradford then emigrated to Massachusetts

Wool worker

FAR00513A

William Farndale

5 November 1874 to 1933

Bradford, Clayton, Bramham

Married Martha Mothersdale on 18 August 1900

Plumbing business partner

FAR00530

John Farndale (Farnell)

18 September 1875 to after 1891

Worsted spinner

Clayton, Bradford

FAR00545A

(see record for Gladys, Kathleen, Lily, Gladwin, George Arthur, Frank, Hannah Mary, Doris and Maggie Farnell)

James Arthur Farndale

15 December 1877 to 1 March 1952

Worsted drawing foreman

Married Florence Edith Greenwood in 1905

Bradford, Baildon, Clayton

FAR00555

Tom Farndale

17 September 1883 (or 7 August 1881) to 15 November 1962

Married Alice Wilkinson in 1911

Machine Moulder

Burnley, Nelson, Padiham

FAR00573

Mary Farndale

22 September 1883 to 6 September 1972

Clayton, Bradford

FAR00596A

Maggie Farndale

1886 to after 1911

Mill hand

West Clayton (west of Bradford)

FAR00608A

 

The Stilwell Family

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Robinson Family

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edith Annie Farndale

9 October 1901 to 1989

Bookkeeper/clerk at Bradford Infant’s clinic and later involved in maternity and child welfare

Lidget Green, Bradford

FAR00707

 

May Farndale

1 May 1906 to 1979

Bookkeeper/clerk at Bradford Infant’s clinic

Married Harold Crowther in 1932

Lidget Green, Bradford

FAR00731

William Farndale

24 May 1915 to 18 June 1978

Plumber

Married Joan M Georgeson in 1940

Bradford

FAR00818

Wilfred Farndale

13 September 1910 to 26 January 1965

Married Kathleen Dawson in 1935

Sanitary Meat Inspector

North Brierley, Wharfedale, Bradford, Worth Valley

FAR00766

 

 

Minnie Farndale

19 June 1911 to 17 August 1994

Cotton Weaver

Padiham, Burnley

FAR00773

 

Annie Farndale

1914 to 1916

Died aged 2

Burnley

FAR00801

Hilda Farndale

12 September 1915 to August 1985

Married John Lord in 1936

Padiham, Burnley, Nelson

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The Bradford 2 Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frank Farndale

1902 to 1976

Paddington

Rosalie Hessie Farndale

 

23 July 1908 to 5 April 1995

 

Married Arthur A Carder probably in 1934 (even though records suggest 1964)

 

Bookkeeper and cashier for husband’s butcher business

 

Brentford, West Ealing, Barnstead, Bournemouth, Norwich

 

FAR00748

 

Kathleen Alice Farndale

28 January 1913 to 2000

Married Frederick M Maine in 1932

Ealing, Thanet, Poole, Bournemouth

FAR00791

John Horace Thomas Farndale

21 July 1919 to 11 September 2018

Married Mildred Croft in 1942 and Rose Bessey in 1949

Served in the RAF

Rochford, Essex, Norwich

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Patricia R Farndale

1951

Abyad, Egypt (British Armed Forces)

Married David Butcher in 1975

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The Butcher Family

 

 

The Ancestry of the Bishop Wilton Line

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

William Farndale (FAR00220A), 1788 - 1871

The Ampleforth 1 Line

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 Bishop Wilton Line

 

First and Second Generation

 

21 October 1788

William Farnell (Farndale) was born at Windgate Hill, Coxwold. His father was a farmer.

 

About 1815

William married Margaret.

 

1 August 1822

William Farndale the Younger was born at Bishop Wilton.

 

27 October 1826

Elizabeth Farndale was baptised at Bishop Wilton. Elizabeth married Daniel Hague and was the wife of a large family living near Pocklington.

 

23 June 1829

Sarah Farndale was baptised at Bishop Wilton. Sarah was a servant, and married John Simpson.

 

17 June 1832

Robert Farndale was baptised at Bishop Wilton. Robert moved to London, where he was a gardener in Wandsworth.

 

2 December 1834

 

Leonard Farndale and Elias Farndale (twins) were baptised at Bishop Wilton.  There is a lack of record about these two twins.

25 July 1859

 

The property in Bishop Wilton where William Farndale was staying in 1859, was sold at auction:

 

(Yorkshire Gazette, 25 June 1859)

 

1841 and 1861

William Farndale was an agricultural labourer at Bishop Wilton.

 

About 1845

 

William Farndale the Younger married Ann (Esther) Leppington.

By 1846

By 1846, perhaps at the time of his marriage, William Farndale the Younger had moved from Bishop Wilton, east of York, to the Tadcaster area, west of York, and lived at Barwick in Elmet and Aberford where he was a shepherd.

 

3 May 1862

 

(Yorkshire Gazette, 3 May 1862)

 

1871

William Farndale the Elder died in the Pocklington area (probably Bishop Wilton).

 

1891

William Farndale the Younger was by now retired, aged 68, living at Black Fern Lodge, Aberford.

 

1899

 

William Farndale died, probably in Barwick in Elmet.

 

The family were originally associated with the Bishop Wilton area. However William the Younger moved west of York, to the area around Tadcaster, at Aberford and Barwick in Elmet. His brother Robert, moved to London.

 

Third Generation

 

1846

Ann Farndale was born. She married Richard Nutton.

 

23 April 1849

John Farndale was baptised at Bishop Wilton. He became a groom and moved to Clayton, west of Bradford.

 

1850

 

Meantime, in London, Robert Farndale, son of Robert, was born.

1852

Thomas Farndale was born. He married Mary Hannah Weighill and he was a shepherd at Barwick in Elmet before moving to Hunslet, now part of Leeds. He died in 1929.

 

9 September 1854

Mark Farndale was born in the Pocklington area, probably at Bishop Wilton. He married Hannah Varley and became a gas man/gas stoker at Barwick in Elmet and later in Selby. He died in 194 in Selby.

 

1861

Margaret Farndale was born at Aberford. So by now the family had moved west of York. Margaret was lodge keeper at Black Fen Lodge, Aberford. She died in 1927.

 

Black Fen is between Aberford and Bramham.

 

17 September 1864

George Farndale was born at Aberford. He married Minnie in Ireland in 1900. By 1901, he was back at Black Fen Lodge, Bramham, Wetherby and working on a farm with a new born son, William, who was born while George was in Ireland. By 1921, George was a farm worker for Colonel Lane Fox at Bramham Park. He died in the Wetherby area in 1940.

 

19 December 1875

 

John W Farndale was born at Bickerton. Bickerton is near Wetherby and I have therefore assumed he is part of this family, but as there was already a John, this still needs a bit more work. John was a farm horseman and later a gardener in Wetherby founder of the Wetherby Line. He died on 26 November 1963 at Walton in Ainsty.

 

30 September 1877

George Farndale was born. Again, I understand he is a member of this family, but this needs some more work as there was already a George. George was an agricultural labourer at Aberford and married Mary Agnes Graham in the Burnley area in 1906. This was probably at Clayton Le Moors in Lancashire, where his children were born. He was a general and state labourer in Blackburn and Great Harwood in Lancashire. He died in 1954 aged 76.

 

1882

Mary Farndale was born in Saxton, east of Aberford. She married William Kendrew at Aberford in 1904, who was a quarryman labourer. She died in 1962.

 

1885

Thomas (Tom) Farndale was born in Saxton. He was a farm horseman.

 

1885

Alfred (Fred) Leperton (probably Leppington, his mother’s maiden name) Farndale was born in Saxton. By age 15 Fred was an underground pit pony driver, but he died aged 16 at Aberford in 1901.

 

 

Fourth Generation

 

About 1871

Annie Eliza Farndale, daughter of John, was born. She became a worsted drawer and married Frank Robinson in Clayton. They emigrated to Massachusetts, USA in 1912, where Frank worked as a colour maker in a paper mill. Annie died in 1938.

 

5 November 1874

William Farndale, son of John, was born in Ecclesfield, Bradford. He became a plumber and formed a partnership with Harry Sutcliffe in Bradford. He died in 1933 aged 59.

 

About 1876

John Farndale, son of John was born. He was a worsted spinner at age 15, in Clayton.

 

15 December 1877

 

James Arthur Farndale, son of John, was born in Bradford. He was a worsted spinner by age 13. He married Florence and by 1921 he was a worsted drawing foreman at North Brierley, south east of Bradford. He died in 1952.

 

17 September 1883

 

Tom Farndale, son of John, was born in Bradford. By age 19, in 1901, he was a farmer’s apprentice in Clayton. He later became a joiner and cabinet maker and married Alice Wilkinson in Burnley. He was later an iron moulder with Harland and Hobbs Iron Works in Burnley and a machine moulder. He died in 1962.

 

About 1884

 

Mary Farndale, daughter of John, was born probably at Clayton. She became a worsted spinner by age 17 and she died in 1972 in Bradford.

23 April 1884

Ethel Farndale, daughter of Thomas, was born at Barwick in Elmet. She was a dressmaker’s apprentice in Hunslet, Leeds by 1901 and worked as a dressmaker. She died in Leeds in 1969.

 

About 1886

Maggie Farndale, daughter of John, was born. She later became a mill hand at West Clayton.

 

1886

George Weighill Farndale, son of Thomas, was born at Manston near Berwick in Elmet, on the outskirts of Leeds. By 1911, he was a warehouseman in Hunslet. In World War 1, he joined the West Yorkshire Regiment. He served in Egypt in 1915 and was killed in action during the Third Battle of Scarpe, which was part of the Arras offensive, on 3 May 1917.

 

9 September 1900

(William) “James” Farndale, son of George, was born in Londonderry, Ireland. They almost immediately moved back to Bramham, near Wetherby. James enlisted as soon as he came of age, shortly after the end of the first world war. His trade by then was a market gardener. He worked as a garden labourer for Colonel Lane Fox at Bramham Park and married Annie Thompson in 1933. He was still an estate gardener, living at the South Lodge, Bramham Park, in 1939. He died in 1953.

 

 

10 September 1901

Margaret Annie Farndale, daughter of George, was born at Bramham. She married Ernest Smith, a gardener.

 

From 1917

James Farndale was excepted from military service for his work in the weaving mills. He became worsted drawing foreman at the Saltaire Mills in Shipley, a Victorian Model village, ow a UNESCO World Heritage site.