The London 4 Line

The genealogy of a line of Farndales, descended from Joseph Farndale and Margaret Lakin

Home Page Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

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

This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the London 4 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

Joseph Farndale was born in South Shields in 1907. He moved the London in the 1930s and this is the story of his family.

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 South Shields 2 Line
		Joseph Farndale 16 March 1907 to 1987 Painter Married Margaret Rose Lakin in 1931 Jarrow, Hammersmith, Fulham, London FAR00739
	Joseph William Farndale 23 August 1931 to July 1986 Evacuated from London during WW2 Married Elsie M Simpson in 1953 Paddington, Fulham, Kensington, Kingston upon Thames FAR00919		Sidney George Farndale 3 November 1933 to 27 May 2002 Evacuated from London during WW2 Married Audrey D Stacey in 1956 Kensington, Hammersmith FAR00929
Julia A Farndale 1954 Kensington FAR01067	Anthony Joseph Farndale 1956 Married Carol Martin in 1979 Kensington, Wandsworth, Crawley, Horley FAR01080	Mark Charles Farndale 1968 Kensington, London FAR01154	Peter W Farndale 1957 Hammersmith FAR01089	David Anthony Farndale 1968 Ashford, Kent FAR01157
	Wayne Anthony Farndale 1981 Wandsworth, Crawley, West Sussex FAR01236	Paul John Farndale 1982 Crawley, Horsham, West Sussex FAR01246
	Lily May Farndale 2001 MMN Farndale Wandsworth FAR01363		Grace Elizabeth Farndale 2006 MMN Morris Wandsworth, London FAR01412

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The Deeper Ancestry of the London 4 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the London 4 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the London 4 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
George William Farndale A Comic Actor who joined the Yorkshire Mummers	The First World War The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story	The First World War Soldiers The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War	The Great Ayton 2 Line	Great Ayton The story of the multiple generations of Farndales who made Great Ayton their home	Great Ayton A visit to Great Ayton where many members of the family lived, and a side trip to the James Cook Monument	Joseph Farndale 1795 to 1877 The father of a large Great Ayton family, who was a cartwright
John William Farndale (“Newcastle Johnny”) 1919 to 1986 The Youngest Jarrow Marcher in 1936	The Jarrow March 1936 The story of the Jarrow March of 1936, of which Johnny Farndale, was the youngest member	Newcastle and South Shields The many members of the family who settled in South Shields and Jarrow	The South Shields 2 Line
			The London 4 Line