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The Ontario 1 Line
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 28th 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.
The genealogical chart showing the Ontario 1 Line
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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 |
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Charles Farndale 21 May 1881 to 7 July 1928 Married Mabel Fanny Pugh (1886 to 1950) in about 1913 A farmer in Melton, Ontario |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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Martha Teressa Farndale 3 December 1887 to 7 January 1986 Toronto and Brampton, Ontario |
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Annie (Anne) Maria Farndale 25 October 1889 Married Thomas Ernest (Dan) Kirk to 1936 on 30 June 1920 in Peel, Ontario Huttonville, Ontario The Kirk Family |
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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 |
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Clarence Edward Farndale
3 October 1918 to 23 June 1992 Married Dorothy Burton and Katherine (‘Kay’) Ann Shea and Virginia Mccary Toronto, Halifax, Annapolis |
Bessie Marie Farndale 1922 to 1922 Brampton, Peel, Ontario |
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Clara Farndale 1913 to 28 August 1996 Married Nicholas Blanchard Read Ontario, Manitoba The Read Family |
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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 |
Lloyd Wiltse Farndale 1913 Married Helen Hobbs Winnipeg, Mannitoba |
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 |
Ina Elizabeth Farndale 1918 to 1918 Winnipeg, Manitoba Died at three weeks |
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Mary Barbara Farndale 1946 Married Richard Bell in 1968 Ontario |
Donna Vivian Farndale 1948 Married Bruce Kemp Ontario |
Phyllis Louise Farndale 1950 Teacher Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario |
Paul Edward Farndale
3 July 1943 to 13 May 2000 Married Sandra Starych in 1973 Toronto |
Julia Ann Farndale
21 February 1957 to June 1971 Halifax and Kentville, Nova Scotia |
David Christopher Farndale
3 October 1959 Kentville, King's County, Nova Scotia, Lambton, Kent, Ontario |
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Edward Lloyd Farndale 1942 Married Ann Lennox in about 1960 Ontario
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The McKelvie Family |
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The Bell Family They had three children |
The Kemp Family |
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Christopher (“Chris”) Paul Farndale 10 June 1976 Toronto, Woodbridge, Ontario |
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Kyle David Farndale 1995 Kentville, King's County, Nova Scotia |
Steven Mitchell Farndale 1997 Kentville, King's County, Nova Scotia |
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Corinne Lei Farndale 1963 Ontario |
Patty (Patricia) Lynn Farndale 1965 Ontario |
Leslie Ann Farndale 1970 Ontario |
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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
John Farndale (FAR00217), 1791 -
1878
William Farndale (FAR00183), 1760 – 1846
John Farndale (FAR00143), 1724 – 1807
John Farndale, (FAR00116), 1680-1757
Nicholas Farndale, (FAR00082), 1634-1693
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.
To link to an individual
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 |
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1853 - 1856 |
John George Farndale took part in the Crimean War,
almost certainly serving with the 28th of Foot, the 28th
(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 28th 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]. |
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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 28th
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 4th, 1854. Dear Father. I received your
letter of 26th 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 14th,
and started for Alma on the 18th. On the 20th 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 17th
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 5th
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 28th
Regiment in Crimea. |
Spring 1855 |
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Later in 1855 |
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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. |
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After the Crimean Wars, the 28th
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. |