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The descendants of John Farndale who served in the Crimea and then emigrated to Ontario

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The Story of the Ontario 1 Line

John George Farndale served a printer’s apprentice in Skelton and joined the army, probably initially the Coldstream Guards in about 1852 to 1853. He then took part in the Crimean War, probably with the 28^th Regiment of Foot, and we have his letters from the Heights of Sebastopol. After the Crimean War he may have travelled to Australia, but ended up in Ontario, where he founded the Ontario 1 Line of Farndales, of five generations, who still live in Canada today. This is their story.

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The Kilton 1 Line

John George Farndale 26 October 1836 to 21 February 1909 Served about 1853-56 in the Crimea in the 28th of Foot a Yorkshire Regiment Married Elizabeth Sanderson (1852 to 1893) on 24 March 1880 at Etobicoke, York, Ontario He took part in the battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman and was at the Siege of Sebastopol Printer’s apprentice before he emigrated to Ontario (possibly via Australia). He was a labourer and farmer in Ontario. Ontario, Stockton, Skelton FAR0337

Charles Farndale 21 May 1881 to 7 July 1928 Married Mabel Fanny Pugh (1886 to 1950) in about 1913 A farmer in Melton, Ontario FAR00572

George Farndale 20 December 1882 to 4 April 1976 Married Elisa Erikson (1883 to 1949) on 26 April 1912 Contractor. Carpenter, grain buyer Etobicoke, Peel, Ontario and Manitoba FAR00580

Albert Farndale 5 May 1884 to after 1977 Farmer and homesteader Married Mabel Fanny Farndale (previously Pugh), widow of his brother Charles on 27 April 1929 Peel, Ontario, Lintlaw, Mackenzie, Saskatchuan FAR00598

Mark Farndale 6 December 1885 to 29 November 1918 Married Mary Alberta Wiltse (1880 to 1944) Farmer and homesteader Died of the flu epidemic in 1918 Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba FAR00603

Martha Teressa Farndale 3 December 1887 to 7 January 1986 Toronto and Brampton, Ontario FAR00624

Annie (Anne) Maria Farndale 25 October 1889 Married Thomas Ernest (Dan) Kirk to 1936 on 30 June 1920 in Peel, Ontario Huttonville, Ontario FAR00636 The Kirk Family

Wilfred Gordon Farndale 3 October 1915 to ? Married Vivian May Gordon in 1944 Flight Lieutenant in the RCAF in World War 2 in Europe and then became an accountant Sarnia, Ontario FAR00819

Clarence Edward Farndale 3 October 1918 to 23 June 1992 Married Dorothy Burton and Katherine (‘Kay’) Ann Shea and Virginia Mccary Toronto, Halifax, Annapolis FAR00850

Bessie Marie Farndale 1922 to 1922 Brampton, Peel, Ontario FAR00878A

Clara Farndale 1913 to 28 August 1996 Married Nicholas Blanchard Read Ontario, Manitoba FAR00869 The Read Family

Irene Violet Farndale 1938 to 1938 Lintlaw, Saskatchewan To Check. Did Albert marry Lily Gorder (1914 to ?) and children Evelyn Farndale (1936 to 2017), Alberta Farndale (1940 to 1995), Eleanor Farndale, and Brenda Farndale?

Anne Lilian Farndale 1912 Winnipeg, Mannitoba FAR00781

Lloyd Wiltse Farndale 1913 Married Helen Hobbs Winnipeg, Mannitoba FAR00793

Audrey Celina Farndale 15 July 1916 to 5 February 2005 Married Ernest McKelvie on 19 August 1938 Comptometer operator for the Hudson Bay Company Winnipeg, Manitoba FAR00827

Ina Elizabeth Farndale 1918 to 1918 Winnipeg, Manitoba Died at three weeks FAR00848

Mary Barbara Farndale 1946 Married Richard Bell in 1968 Ontario FAR01003

Donna Vivian Farndale 1948 Married Bruce Kemp Ontario FAR01035

Phyllis Louise Farndale 1950 Teacher Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario FAR01044

Paul Edward Farndale 3 July 1943 to 13 May 2000 Married Sandra Starych in 1973 Toronto FAR00985

Julia Ann Farndale 21 February 1957 to June 1971 Halifax and Kentville, Nova Scotia FAR01086

David Christopher Farndale 3 October 1959 Kentville, King's County, Nova Scotia, Lambton, Kent, Ontario FAR01100

Edward Lloyd Farndale 1942 Married Ann Lennox in about 1960 Ontario FAR00977

The McKelvie Family

The Bell Family They had three children

The Kemp Family

Christopher (“Chris”) Paul Farndale 10 June 1976 Toronto, Woodbridge, Ontario FAR01213

Kyle David Farndale 1995 Kentville, King's County, Nova Scotia FAR01323A

Steven Mitchell Farndale 1997 Kentville, King's County, Nova Scotia FAR01335

Corinne Lei Farndale 1963 Ontario FAR01120

Patty (Patricia) Lynn Farndale 1965 Ontario FAR01136

Leslie Ann Farndale 1970 Ontario FAR01177

The Ancestry of the Ontario 1 Line

The Ontario 1 Line can trace directly back to 1512 from John George Farndale to Nicholas Farndaile as follows:

John George Farndale (FAR00337), 1836 - 1909

The Kilton 1 Line

John Farndale (FAR00217), 1791 - 1878

William Farndale (FAR00183), 1760 – 1846

John Farndale (FAR00143), 1724 – 1807

John Farndale, (FAR00116), 1680-1757

The Liverton 2 Line

Nicholas Farndale, (FAR00082), 1634-1693

The Kirkleatham Skelton Line

Georgins Ffarndayle, (FAR00073), 1602-1693

George Ffarndayle, (FAR00067), 1570-1606

William Farndale, (FAR00063), 1539-?

Nicholas Farndaile (FAR00059), 1512-1572

You can then follow details of Farndale in the medieval period who were almost certainly earlier ancestors at Volume 1 of the Farndale directory.

You can then explore Yorkshire prehistory to give you a further perspective of the distant ancestry of the people of Farndale.

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The Sun Times, Wed, 10 Jun 1964, Page 3 (Ontario newspaper) and The Ottawa Citizen, Sat, 18 Jul 1964, Page 13: Good Old Days. Mrs Florence Farndale, 79, retiring British innkeeper, recalls when 14 cents would buy two double whiskies, a pint of beer and an ounce of tobacco.

Chronology of the Ontario 1 Line

27 November 1836	John George Farndale, son of John and Martha Farndale (John was the Writer) was born in Skelton.
By 1851	John George Farndale was a printer’s apprentice in Skelton. At some point John joined the army. It is probable that he did so under a false name. If he had not completed his apprenticeship, then the army would have been bound to hand him to the responsible authorities. There may also have been family disapproval at him joining the Army.
1852 - 1853	The 28^th of Foot were stationed in Yorkshire, Tyneside and Northumberland areas. On 16 July 1852, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Adams was in command. The Regiment was initially at Newcastle with detachments at Sunderland, Tynemouth and Carlisle. In May 1853, the Regimental Headquarters moved to Leeds, with detachments in Bradford, Hull, Scarborough and Barnsley.
1853 - 1856	John George Farndale took part in the Crimean War, almost certainly serving with the 28^th of Foot, the 28^th (North Gloucester) Regiment of Foot. He probably transferred from the Coldstream Guards. He was a runway apprentice and he may have used an assumed name to enlist. He took part in the Battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and was at the Siege of Sebastopol. The Siege of Sebastopol lasted from October 1854 to September 1855.
22 February 1854	The 28^th of Foot sailed for the Crimea and arrived on 4 March 1854 [not sure this is right as the landing in Crimea was not until September – perhaps they sailed for the field of operations at that stage].
	The Crimean War arose at a time of the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the expansion of Russia in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars. The British and French preferred to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in central Europe. A flashpoint arose by a disagreement over the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of the Catholics and Russia promoted the Eastern Orthodox Church. Napoleon III and Tsar Nicolas I of Russia each refused to back down. Nicholas sent an ultimatum demanding the orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire be placed under his protection. Britain attempted to mediate and Nicholas agreed to a compromise, but when the Ottomans demanded changes to the agreement, Nicholas prepared for War. In July 1853 Russian Troops entered the Danubian Principalities (now part of Romania) and in October, with promises of support from France and Britain, the Ottomans declared War on Russia. The Ottomans led by Omar Pasha fought a strong defensive campaign. By January 1854, the British and French were worried about an Ottoman defeat and entered the Black Sea. The Allies decided that they would attack Russia’s main naval base in the Black Sea at Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. The Italian Kingdom of Sardinia also sent an expeditionary force to Crimea to join the French, British and the Ottomans. On 14 September 1854, The Allies, comprising the British, French, Ottoman and Sardinian Forces, landed at Eupatoira. They planned to march immediately upon Sevastopol (known as Sebastopol by the British), which was the capitol of The Crimea. Medals of Ralph Webster of 28^th Regiment in Crimea
September 1854	The Battle of Alma. The first battle of the War. An Anglo French Force defeated the Russian opposition. French and British engineers started to build siege lines along the uplands south of Sebastopol, from their base at Balaklava. By 5 October the Allies had 120 guns ready to fire and the Russians had about three times as many. An artillery battle began. The Allied Fleet pounded Russian defences.
October 1854	The Battle of Balaklava. This gave the Russians a morale boost and convinced them that the Allied lines were spread too thinly.
4 November 1854	John George Farndale wrote: “Heights of Sebastopol, November 4^th, 1854. Dear Father. I received your letter of 26^th of last month, and was glad to hear that you were all well and in the enjoyment of health. I suppose your papers in England say that Sebastopol is taken, but I can tell you very differently. It is now seventeen days since we commenced the attack on the town, and there is no sign of it being taken yet. I thought we should have had it by now, but I assure you it is no easy task. Since I wrote last we have had great ravages in the army – the first by sickness; then the cholera came amongst us and swept a great many away. We then went on board for Russia, in the latter part of August, and landed without opposition September 14^th, and started for Alma on the 18th. On the 20^th we were before Alma, and commenced the attack about eleven o’clock against 50,000 Russians, and defeated them after three hours’ cannonading and musketry; and it took us two days to bury the dead, and send our wounded on board ship for Scurati. We then started for Sebastopol, and reached it after eight or nine days’ march; we had to go a great way round. As soon as we got in front and settled, we commenced throwing up batteries and breast works, under fire of the enemy. We finished them after about five days and nights’ hard working, and opened fire on them on the 17^th of last month, and have been battering away ever since, and are likely to continue doing so for some time to come. We have greater opposition than we expected. There was a faint attack made on our rear army a few days ago, which cut up our cavalry fearfully, but were defeated in the end. Our loss is not so great, considering all the circumstances of the case. I have escaped as yet, thank God! I have had a narrow escape: one morning, as we were relieving guard, two privates and a sergeant were shot close by me with one ball. I think I have given you all particulars up to the present. Next time I write, I hope Sebastopol will have fallen. Your affectionate son. John George Farndale.”
November 1854	The Battle of Inkerman. The Russians were defeated, so moved their forces inside the city. Towards the end of November a winter storm ruined the Allied camp and supply lines and men and horses starved in the appalling conditions. John Farndale was promoted to Lance Corporal, in about January 1855.
February 1855	John George Farndale wrote: “Camp before Sebastopol. I now take the first opportunity of writing to you hoping you are in good health as I am at present. I received your letter on the 5^th of this month and also the newspaper and was glad to hear from you. You are in great haste to hear from me again, you hardly will give time to write! I have been for writing all this month but had not the ink. I had to send to Balaclava for it. I have been laid up in my tent with frost bitten feet nearly all this month, but I am better again and fit for duty. I have had capitol health ever since I landed in the Crimea, thank God for it. I can assure you there is very few of the old hands left now of what came out with us from England. The Colonel received your letter and thinks that I never write to you by the way you write. As to the promotion you were talking about, I received the Lance Stripe about a month ago. The Colonel promised to push me forward if I minded myself, but he was afraid to promote me sooner on account of being so very young. You also mention in your last that you heard from DW Waldy that I was slightly wounded. I never received any wound more than a slight cut on the nose from a stone that was sent up from a ball. The siege is progressing very slowly but I think we will soon open a new siege. Things begin to look a little better. We have received the winter clothing and are getting provisions a little better. We want the wooden houses next, although I think as we have done so long without, we could manage without them altogether. However I hope that before you get this, Sebastopol will be ours and then we will be thinking about returning to old England again. I think I have given you all the news I can at present. The Colonel will send you a few lines in this letter of mine. I am getting tired and want to go to bed, so I must conclude with kind love to brothers and sisters and all enquiring friends. I accept the same yourself. Your affectionate son. J G Farndale.” There was an Ensign Waldy who was promoted to Lieutenant on 8 February 1855, who served with the 28^th Regiment in Crimea.
Spring 1855	The Allies started to restore their supply lines after the winter ended. A new Grand Crimean Central Railway was built by the end of March 1855 and brought supplies to Balaklava and the siege lines, delivering over 500 guns and significant amounts of ammunition. The Allies resumed their bombardment on 8 April 1855.
Later in 1855	John George Farndale wrote: “Camp before Sebastopol. Dear Sir. I now hasten to answer your letter which I received this morning. I was glad to hear from I assume you! My father oft mentions you in his letters. I have had a letter written these two or three days waiting for the mail to send to father. I have to say you have had all particulars from him about the war. You ask when will we get into Sebastopol? I can tell you we are making great preparations. We are getting a great many more guns than we had before, and mortars which will fire 112 pounders, which will shake Sebastopol. And if they do not give up then, we will storm it by force. English, French and Turks. There will be a great many lives lost in taking it, we have lost all our army we have brought with us. They are all young soldiers who have come out last. If I live to see it over and get back to old England again, which by the blessing of God I hope to do, I will tell you tales that will make your hair stand on end! You ask if all accounts were true about what I sent you. I can assure you it was but too true. Now the weather is a great deal warmer and better provisions. When the main army has gone to the grave, any man who has got …”
August 1855	On 24 August 1855 the Allies started their most severe bombardment. The Battle of Tchernaya.
September 1855	The Battle of Redan. The British assault on the Great Redan failed. The Battle of Malakoff. The French seized the Malakoff redoubt, making the Russian defence untenable. On 28 August 1855 the Russians abandoned the southern side of Sebastopol. The fall of Sebastopol led to Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War, but cost heavy Allied casualties. The Crimean War was one of the first campaigns which used techniques of modern warfare including explosive naval shells, railways and telegraphs. But the War showed significant logistical, medical and tactical failures and led to the professionalism of medicine led by Florence Nightingale. The Imperial Russian Army would take decades to recover and the defeat would be a catalyst for social reforms and the abolition of serfdom in Russia.
	After the Crimean Wars, the 28^th of Foot served in India from 1858 to 1865.
1870	John George Farndale emigrated to Canada. There is an unsubstantiated story that he went to Australia first. John George Farndale
24 March 1880	John George Farndale married Elizabeth Martha Sanderson in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.
1881	John George Farndale was a labourer in Vaughan, Ontario.
21 May 1881	Charles Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Vaughan.
20 December 1882	George Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Vaughan. George was a contractor in Manitoba by 1911 and he married Elisa Erikson in Victoria, Manitoba on 6 April 1912. They had a daughter Clara. By 1940, George was a grain buyer in Somerset, Macdonald, Manitoba and he died in Winnipeg on 4 April 1976. Clara married Nicholas Read. John was still working as a labourer.
5 May 1884	Albert Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Vaughan. Albert was a farmer labourer in 1901 and there are records for his application for homestead lots from 1906. He settled as a farer in Saskatchewan and married his brother Charles’ widow, Mabel. John was now a farmer at lot 18, con 10, Vaughan.
6 December 1885	Mark Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Ontario.
About 1887	This photograph is of John George Farndale and the family taken in about 1887 in Canada - his family left to right are George, Teresa, Mark, Charles and Albert
3 December 1887	Martha Teresa Farndale, daughter of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Ontario. She remained unmarried, and she died aged 99 on 7 January 1986 in Peel, Ontario. John was still a farmer when Martha was born.
25 October 1889	Annie or Anne Maria Farndale, daughter of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Smithfield, Etobicoke, York, Ontario. By then John had Canadian citizenship and was a farmer.
1891	John George Farndale was a farm labourer in Etobicoke, Ontario.
1901	John George Farndale was a farm labourer in Peel District, Chinquacousy.
23 September 1908	Mark Farndale married Mary Alberta Wiltse in Winnipeg.
21 February 1909	John George Farndale died at Chinquacousy, Ontario, aged 72.
By 1911	By 1911, Mark Farndale was a farmer in Humboldt, Saskatchewan.
6 June 1911	Anne Lilian Farndale, daughter of Mark and Mary Farndale, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1913	Lloyd Wiltse Farndale, son of Mark and Mary Farndale, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lloyd Farndale married Helen Hobbs and they had a son, Edward Lloyd Farndale, born in 1942.
27 October 1914	Charles Farndale married Mabel Fanny Pugh in Peel, Ontario.
1915	Wilfred Gordon Farndale, son of Charles and Mabel Farndale, was born in Ontario.
1916	Audrey Farndale, daughter of Mark and Mary Farndale, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Audrey moved to BC in 1953, first to Chilliwack, then to Vancouver and finally to Victoria. She was employed by the Hudson Bay Company as a comptometer operator and later by the Federal Government in a secretarial position. Audrey marred Ernest Everitt Steward McKelvie in Manitoba in 1938. They had daughters Margaret (Terry) and Bernice, grandsons Michael (Gail), David (Kate) and Brian (Jenn) Sagar and great-grandchildren Lynn and Tom. Audrey's husband Ernie died in 1998. Her grandsons remember her for her generosity in support of their education. The comptometer was the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator. A key-driven calculator is extremely fast because each key adds or subtracts its value to the accumulator as soon as it is pressed and a skilled operator can enter all of the digits of a number simultaneously, using as many fingers as required, making them sometimes faster to use than electronic calculators. Consequently, in specialized applications, comptometers remained in use in limited numbers into the early 1990s, but with the exception of museum pieces, they have all now been superseded by electronic calculators and computers.
1918	Ina Elizabeth Farndale, daughter of Mark and Mary Farndale, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She died only three weeks old.
3 October 1918	Clarence Edward Farndale, son of Charles and Mabel Farndale, was born in Ontario.
29 November 1918	Mark Farndale died of the flu epidemic and is buried at Jansen Cemetery, Saskatchewan.
1921	Charles Farndale was a farmer in Chiguacousy Township, Peel, Ontario.
1922	Bessie Marie Farndale, daughter of Charles and Mabel Farndale, was born in Ontario.
7 July 1928	Charles Farndale died at Chinquacousy, Ontario and is buried at Brampton Cemetery. His death certificate records death by hanging while temporarily insane.
1939 - 1945	Wilfred Gordon (“Gordon”) Farndale served as a Flight Lieutenant in the RCAF. Clarence Edward Farndale served in the RCN from 1939 to 1966. He served from 15 March 1939 to 17 August 1945 and then from 25 February 1947 to 12 August 1966 and was honourably released. Gordon Farndale RCAF 1944 Clarence and Gordon Farndale on Clarence’s corvette in 1944
29 September 1942	Clarence Farndale married Dorothy Burton. They had a son, Paul Edward Farndale, born in Toronto on 3 July 1943.
4 May 1944	Wilfred Gordon Farndale married Vivian May Gordon in Sarnia, Ontario.
1946	Mary Barbara Farndale, daughter of Wilfred and Vivian Farndale, was born in Ontario.
1948	Donna Vivian Farndale, daughter of Wilfred and Vivian Farndale, was born in Ontario. By 1949, Wilfred was an accountant.
1950	Phyllis Louise Farndale, daughter of Wilfred and Vivian Farndale, was born in Ontario.
19 November 1955	Clarence Edward Farndale married Katherine (Kay) An Shea in Halifax. They had a daughter, Julia Ann Farndale and a son, David Christopher Farndale. She died in 1976.
1960	Clarence Farndale
About 1982	Gordon Farndale (Charles’ son) and Audrey Farndale (Mark’s daughter) in about 1982.
1985	Clarence Farndale Lilian Farndale
23 June 1992	Clarence Farndale died in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia.
19 February 1994	Vivian Farndale, wife of Wilfred Farndale, died in Sarnia.