The Leeds 1 Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

A family of shoemakers who moved to the Bramley district of Leeds

 

 

 

  

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The Story of the Leeds 1 Line

John Farndale was born in 1826 in Coxwold. He married Sarah Brittain in Leeds in 1856. They settled there, in Bramley, and had a family of eleven children (though many of them died young). John was a cordwainer (a cordwainer makes new shoes distinguished from a cobbler who mends shoes) in Bramley. Several of his children were also shoemakers.

Bramley experienced an industrial boom and an increase in population in the nineteenth century, mostly due to the development of the woollen textile industry in the early nineteenth century and due to the boot making and engineering industries in the later part of the century.

 

The genealogical chart showing the Leeds 1 Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ampleforth 1 Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Farndale

17 October 1826 to 1902

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A cordwainer in Leeds

Married Sarah Ann Brittain (or Briitton) on 3 February 1856 in Leeds

Coxwold, Bramley

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Joseph Farndale

1857 to 1891

Shoemaker

Married Martha Hill or Emma Selby in 1883

Bramley

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Mary Elizabeth Farndale

1858 to 1861

Hunslet

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Alice Clark Farndale

1859 to 1864

Hunslet, Bramley

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Elias Farndale

1860 to before 1871?

Bramley

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Jethro Farndale

15 April 1861 to 26 August 1893

Shoemaker

Bramley

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Peter Farndale

1862

Shoemaker

Bramley

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William Farndale

1863 to 1864

Died aged 1

Bramley

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Elizabeth Farndale

1865 to 1934

Shoemaker machinist

Married John Gall in 1896

Bramley, Leeds

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The Gall Family

William Farndale 1868 to 1934

Married Jane

Labourer and cartman/drayman of Bramley and Beeston, Leeds

Bramley, Leeds

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Walter Farndale

1872 to 25 January 1922

Bramley, Cheshire

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John Farndale

1871 to 1920

Shoemaker

Bramley

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Joseph Farndale

1 March 1896 to 18 September 1950

Married Minnie Brown in 1926

Probably Private Joseph Farndale, Army Ordnance Corps in WW1

Licensing Authority official

Labourer and heavy worker

Bramley, Leeds

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Alfred Farndale

19 February 1898 to 1978

Splitting machinist, Rag metal broker , broker and dealer

Private in the 9th Lancers n WW1

Leeds, Holbeck

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Frederick Farndale

26 July 1900 to 27 February 1964

Labourer and brickworks heavy worker

Leeds, Holbeck

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William Farndale

12 November 1926 to 2000

Married Rosemary Scarborough in 1950

Leeds

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Frank Farndale

1931 to 16 October 2016

Married Anne E Ewan in 1959

Leeds, Barkston Ash, Harrogate

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Marlene Farndale

1935

Married John Pratt in 1955

Wharfedale, Leeds, USA

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Farndale-Worfolk?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Farndale

1959

Married Sandra Mullen in 1983

Barkston Ash, Leeds

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The Pratt Family

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allison E Farndale

1955

Married Kevin Holdsworth in 1976

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The Holdsworth Family

 

 

 

 

Beverley Louise Farndale

1967

Leeds

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The Ancestry of the Leeds 1 Line

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

John Farndale (FAR00293), 1826 - 1902

The Ampleforth 1 Line

Jethro Farndale (FAR00218), 1790 - 1882

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 Leeds 1 Line

 

First, Second and Third Generation

 

17 October 1826

John Farndale the Elder was baptised in Coxwold.

 

By 1841

John Farndale the Elder was a shoe maker’s apprentice to Richard Sivers in Easingwold. Easingwold is near his birth place, but perhaps as he drew into the shoe trade, he became drawn to Leeds, and Bramley in particular, which was becoming a centre of shoe making amongst other trades in the later part of the nineteenth century.

 

3 February 1856

John Farndale the Elder married Sarah Ann Brittain in Leeds. By now John was a cordwainer.

 

A cordwainer is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather. The cordwainer's trade has been distinguished from the cobbler's trade, according to a tradition in Britain that restricted cobblers to repairing shoes. That said, the word cobbler has become widely used for folk who make or repair shoes The Oxford English Dictionary says that the word cordwainer is archaic, "still used in the names of guilds, for example, the Cordwainers' Company"; but its definition of cobbler mentions only mending, reflecting the older distinction.

 

1857

Joseph Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. He became a shoemaker himself in Old Hall, Bramley, and married Martha Tomlinson in 1883. He died in 1891, aged only 34.

 

1858

Mary Elizabeth Farndale, daughter of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. She died aged only 3 in 1861.

 

1859

Alice Clark Farndale, daughter of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. She died aged only 5 in 1864.

 

1860

 

Elias Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. He probably died in 1871.

1861

Jethro Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. Jethro was a shoemaker by 1891, in Bramley. He died aged only 32 in 1893.

 

1862

Peter Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. In 1878, Peter Farndale was a clerk in the town clerk’s office and by 1881, he was a shoemaker in Bramley.

 

1863

 

William Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. William died aged only 1, in 1864.

1865

 

Elizabeth Farndale, daughter of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. By 1881, Elizabeth was a shoemaker’s machinist, probably working for her father, in Old Hall, Bramley and she was still in that role in 1891. In 1896, she married John Gall and they had a son. John Gall was also a boot and shoemaker and she continued to work as a boot machinist. Elizabeth Gall died in Bramley in 1912.

 

1868

 

William Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. William was working as a labourer in Bramley by 1891. He married Jane Wright in 1895. After he married, he was a drayman and a carter in the Holbeck district of Leeds.

 

1872

 

Walter Farndale, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. Walter Farndale died in Cheshire in 1922.

1872

 

John Farndale the Younger, son of John Farndale the Elder and Sarah Farndale, was born in Bramley, Leeds. By 1891, he was a shoemaker in Bramley. He died aged 50 in Bramley in 1920.

1 August 1885

 

Leeds Mercury:

 

 

14 December 1895

 

(Warrington Examiner, 14 December 1895 and again in early 1896)

 

1 March 1896

 

Joseph Farndale the Younger, son of William and Jane Farndale, was born in Bramley. In 1911, Joseph was a ‘skiver’ – skiver is sometimes used to describe leather, so perhaps he was working with leather, maybe for the shoe making industry.

 

19 February 1898

 

Alfred Farndale the Younger, son of William and Jane Farndale, was born in Leeds.

16 July 1900

 

Frederick Farndale the Younger, son of William and Jane Farndale, was born in Leeds.

1902

John Farndale the Elder died in Bramley, aged 76.

 

6 March 1908

 

(Shipley Times and Express, 6 March 1908)

 

By 1911

 

Alfred Farndale was working as a splitting machinist in Holbeck.

1914-1918

 

Private Joseph Farndale served in the Ordnance Corps.

 

Private Alfred Farndale served in the 9th Lancers.

 

1926

 

Joseph Farndale married Minnie Brown in Bramley.

1930

 

(Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 21 April 1930)

 

1934

William Farndale the Elder died in Leeds.

 

But not sure who this was:

 

(Leeds Mercury 21 May 1934)

 

1937

 

Joseph Farndale may have been working with the licensing authority for York. But this may not be him.

1939

 

Joseph Farndale was working as a general labourer and heavy worker.

 

Alfred Farndale was a rag metal broker in Leeds.

 

Frederick Farndale was a general labourer and heavy brickworks labourer.

 

18 September 1950

 

Joseph Farndale died in Leeds.

 

Alfred Farndale was a broker and dealer in Leeds.

 

6 March 1964

 

Frederick Farndale was buried at Cottingley Hall Cemetery, Beeston, Leeds.

1978

 

Alfred Farndale died in Leeds.

 

 

Third Generation

 

1926

William Farndale, son of Joseph and Minnie Farndale, was born in Leeds. William married Rosemary Scarborough in 1950. They had a daughter, Allison. William died in Leeds in 2000.

 

1931

Frank Farndale, son of Joseph and Minnie Farndale, was born in Leeds. Frank married Annie Ewan in 1959 and they had a son, Andrew, born in 1959. Frank died on 16 October 2016.

 

1935

 

Marlene Farndale, daughter of Joseph and Minnie Farndale, was born in Leeds. Marlene married John Pratt in 1955 and it is believed they emigrated to USA.