The Loftus 2 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from John Farndale and Elizabeth Featherstone

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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

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

Note that the family of George Farndale (1843 to 1917) has been reclassified as part of the Brotton 3 Line.

This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Loftus 2 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

The family tree is colour coded to show the flow of relationships between individuals. You can also follow the hyperlinks in brown text to link directly to other related family lines and the hyperlink in blue text to reach the webpage of each individual, where you can read about their lives in more detail.

				The Kilton 1 Line
				John Farndale 26 June 1848 to 10 May 1914 Married Elizabeth Featherstone on 8 October 1881 Signalman and Railway porter Loftus, Skelton, Liverton, Moorsholm FAR00376
Hannah Mary Farndale 17 October 1880 to 12 December 1953 Married Herbert Richardson Loftus, Northallerton, Liverton FAR00595		John Martin Farndale 4 March 1886 to 16 September 1966 Married Bessie Stainthorpe in 1910 Grocery Store manager in Guisborough who later emigrated to Newfoundland Newfoundland, Loftus, Southampton FAR00613		George Farndale 28 March 1888 to 19 July 1974 Married Nana Mann in 1915 Farm worker and miner and slag filler in Guisborough Loftus, Guisborough FAR00627	William Farndale 13 August 1890 to 7 September 1947 Married Cecilia Harding in 1915 Ironstone miner Moorsholm, Loftus FAR00642			Elizabeth Farndale 5 January 1893 to 17 June 1971 Married Robert Shaw in 1919 Domestic servant Moorsholm, Loftus, Guisborough FAR00654	Albert Edward Farndale 8 December 1894 to 17 April 1971 Married Rosa Lavinia Hastings in 1919 Draper and Co-op store manager in Loftus and Northallerton Gunner in Royal Garrison Artillery in WW1 Loftus, Northallerton FAR00667
		The Newfoundland Line
				Bessie Farndale 30 January 1916 to March 1999 Cook Married nee Bunting Moorsholm, Cleveland FAR00824	Ernest William Farndale 9 September 1917 to 19 November 1997 Farm Manager Married Doris Bulmer in 1942 Moorsholm, Brotton FAR00841	Edith Farndale 31 December 1920 to 1922 Moorsholm, Guisborough Died aged 1 FAR00870	John Farndale BSc (ag) 6 July 1922 to 2005 Married Mary Gill on 15 March 1947 Moorsholm, Guisborough, Gilling East FAR00880	Doris May Farndale 11 November 1914 to 22 October 1986 Born to Elizabeth before she married Robert Shaw Domestic Married Joseph W Smith in 1940 Loftus, Stokesley, Northallerton FAR00807	Rosamund Farndale 3 October 1931 to 22 November 2012 Married Bradford Martin and then Singleton Jones Kwalker Pomeyie in 1973 Headmistress, school governor, librarian, Campden Victim Support volunteer Northallerton, Nigeria, Hampstead, Kentish Town, London FAR00920
								Jonathan Pomeyie	Selom (Sel) Pomeyie
			Ernest William Farndale 25 June 1943 to 22 July 2003 Married Elizabeth A Rennison in 1969 Moorsholm, Cleveland, Saltburn by the Sea, Middlesbrough FAR00981	Herbert Farndale 25 to 28 September 1948 Died aged 0 Moorsholm FAR01031	Colin Farndale 26 April 1951 Married Ingrid C Nordkvelle in 1996 Cleveland, Stockton FAR01048		John Anthony Farndale 17 February 1948 Married Marion Snaith in 1971 A doctor at Windermere Gilling East, York, South Shields, Windermere, Cambridge FAR01021	Professor Richard William Farndale 1951 Married Rosemary A Baker in 1974 York, Hitchin, Hertfordshire FAR01051	David Alan Farndale 30 January 1959 Married Elizabeth Hallifax in 1985 Ormskirk, Andover, Cambridge FAR01094
								Edward Richard James Farndale 1986 Cambridge FAR01261
Neil William Farndale 1969 Married Tracy Greenwood in 1996 Redcar, Cleveland FAR01169	Nigel John Farndale 1971 Married Julie Dunn in 2001 Cleveland, Yorkshire FAR01185	Andrea Farndale 1973 Teesside FAR01195	Amanda Jane Farndale 1974 Cleveland, Hartlepool FAR01206	Jane Elizabeth Farndale 20 August 1977 Windermere, Kendal, Westmorland, Lake District, Morpeth, Northumberland FAR01216	Katherine Anne Farndale 1980 Windermere, Kendal, Westmorland, Lake District, Morpeth, Northumberland, Middlesbrough, Cleveland FAR01227	Sarah Victoria Farndale 1982 Windermere, Kendal, Westmorland, Lake District, Morpeth, Northumberland FAR01240	Charlotte Emma Farndale 4 November 1983 to 3 February 1984 Died aged 0 Windermere, Kendal, Westmorland, Lake District FAR01250	Emma Louise Farndale 1985 Lancaster, Lancashire, Morpeth, Northumberland FAR01259
	Jodie Hannah Farndale 1994 Home Care Professional Scarborough, Whitby FAR01318	Megan Zoe Farndale 1998 Home Care Professional Whitby, Saltburn by the Sea FAR01346		Dylan Farndale 2004 MMN Farndale Birmingham FAR01380			Rebecca Jane Farndale 1987 Cambridge, Birmingham FAR01272	Timothy (“Tim”) David Farndale 1989 Senior Manager Cambridge FAR01284	Hazel Margaret Farndale 1994 Development Manager Geothermal Energy Cambridge, Cornwall, Oxford, London FAR01315

If you are subscribed to Ancestry you can also visit the Farndale Family Tree on Ancestry, which links the whole family together.

The Deeper Ancestry of the Loftus 2 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Loftus 2 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Loftus 2 Line descendants. It will take you back to the earliest history of our ancestors and each box will transport you to a more detailed narrative to unlock your history.

			Kirkdale Cave A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home
			The Primeval Swamp The Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, and Mesolithic evidence of the people of the immediate vicinity to Farndale
Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) The Roman Regional Capital of the lands around Kirkdale	Hovingham A Roman Villa on palatial scale just south of Kirkdale	Beadlam A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the heart of our ancestral lands	Roman Kirkdale 71 CE to 580 CE The lands which would become the lands of Kirkdale and Chirchebi in Roman and Pagan times	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	Eboracum (York) The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor
			Anglo Saxon Kirkdale 560 CE to 793 CE Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Anglo Saxon Period	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
		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	Scandinavian Kirkdale 793 CE to 1066 Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Scandinavian Period	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
		Norman Domination Regime Change	Game of Thrones 1066 to 1200 The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest	Rievaulx Abbey This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154
The Pathfinders Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places	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	Medieval Farming Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest	The First Family Tree A model which relies on extensive medieval evidence, to suggest the most probable family tree of the earliest ancestors of the Farndales	The Cradle Thirteenth Century Farndale Clearing the dale to build our new home	The Story of Farndale to 1500 The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500, to accompany the family story	Medieval Warfare Tales of archers and men at arms who fought with Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V and an observation post in the home of the Nevilles and Richard III from which to view the Wars of the Roses
Campsall and Barnsdale Forest The history of the village of Campsall north of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century	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	The Vicar of Doncaster The Family of William Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster	The Kirkleatham Skelton Line	Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in Cleveland	Kirkleatham A history of Kirkleatham and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland
			The Liverton 2 Line
The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland	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	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	The Kilton 1 Line	The Farmers of Kilton The First Hub The story of the Kilton Farndales, a family who dominated a village, since lost to time, over two centuries	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 Farndales	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
			The Loftus 2 Line	The Railwayman The story of John Farndale and his family who moved to Loftus