The Stockton 1 Line

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The Story of the Stockton 1 Line

John Farndale was a farm labourer and worked in an iron foundry who lived in Hinderwell/Roxby, then briefly at Kirkleatham before settling in Stockton. He had a family of ten.

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The Brotton 3 Line

John Farndale 16 March 1796 to 28 October 1868 Married Elizabeth Wallace Farmer, farm labourer, then iron foundry labourer in Stockton Stockton, Brotton, Kildate, Barnby, Roxby, Whitby, Kirkleatham FAR00230

John Farndale 30 August 1829 to 10 May 1899 Married Ann Thrattles and then Ellen Thrattles Grocer’s warehouseman of Stockton. When his wife died, he married his sister in law Stockton, Kirkleatham, Kildale FAR00305

George Farndale 1835 to 1887 Married Catherine Wemyss Leng Druggist and grocer Stockton, Barnby, Middlesbrough, Gateshead FAR00333

Mary Farndale 1837 to ? Roxby, Scaling, Hinderwell, Guisborough Married Thomas Dods in 1855 FAR00339

Jane Farndale 1838 to 21 July 1893 Roxby, Kirkleatham, Stockton FAR00340

Peter Wallis Farndale 14 February 1839 to 23 April 1840 Boulby, Hinderwell Died aged 1 FAR00343

Hannah Farndale Late 1840 to 4 April 1845 FAR00348

Sarah Farndale 1843 to about 1843? FAR00357

Sarah Farndale 1846 Roxby, Stockton FAR00368A

William Farndale 6 July 1845 to 1 August 1895 Kirkleatham, Stockton Solicitor’s clerk FAR00369A

Peter Farndale 13 November 1847 to 18 June 1896 Married Margaret Duncan-Devereaux Solicitor’s clerk of Stockton Stockton, Kirkleatham, Guisborough FAR00373

Mary Ann Farndale 14 April 1856 to 1933 Unmarried Stockton, Guisborough, Brotton FAR00418

William Ralph Farndale 28 March 1858 to 3 May 1870 Stockton Died aged 11 FAR00430

Jane Ellen Farndale 1864 to 1951 Servant to the butcher of Billingham Stockton, South Shields FAR00458

Sarah Hannah Farndale 1867 to ? Married George Johnson Foreman or Alfred Wilks Windrose in 1889 Stockton FAR00484

Margaret Elizabeth Farndale 3 July 1869 to 1948 Stockton, Blackburn Unmarried FAR00500

Ralph Farndale 1870 to 1 May 1870 See newspaper advert below

Mary Frances Farndale 1867 to 17 December 1874 Died aged 7 and buried on the same day as her 4 year old sister Stockton FAR00483 There was a smallpox pandemic in 1870 to 1874, which originated in France. The Vaccination Act 1853 helped to mitigate its effect in England, but perhaps this was the cause of three sisters dying the same year. There was also a cholera epidemic at the time.

Catherine Wiley Farndale 1870 to 17 December 1874 Died aged 4 and buried on the same day as her 7 year old sister Stockton FAR00502

Annie Louisa Farndale 18 February 1872 to 26 December 1874 Also died and buried with her sisters in late 1874 Stockton FAR00514

William Leng Farndale 1876 to 1932 Brewer and wine merchant and later a Brewer’s Merchant in Rothbury Married Margaret Johnston in 1896 Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Rothbury FAR00539

Catherine Dorothy Farndale 19 January 1904 to 24 May 1986 Clerk with Rothbury Brewery Co Married William Hornsby in 1922 Rothbury, Cumberland, Barrow in Furness FAR00722

Frances Mary Farndale 20 May 1906 to 1998 Waitress Rothbury FAR00737

Kenneth Farndale 9 January 1911 to 1979 General labourer who briefly travelled to Canada between 1927 to 1931 under the emigration of boys to Canada programme Rothbury FAR00767

George Patrick Farndale 20 March 1913 to 8 June 1998 Married Mary E Freeman in 1941 Roadstone quarries heavy worker Northumberland, Rothbury FAR00794

Margaret Farndale 28 February 1915 to ? Rothbury, Morpeth Hotel Waitress Married Malcolm W Withycombe in 1940 FAR00815

Winifreda (Freda) Farndale 8 August 1917 to 15 October 2012 Married Edward Milburn in 1938 Rothbury FAR00843

Nancy Farndale 2 June 1920 to March 1998 Married William Freeman in 1943 Rothbury, Plymouth FAR00867

The Northumberland Line

The Milburn Family

The Ancestry of the Stockton 1 Line

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

John Farndale (FAR00230), 1796 - 1868

The Brotton 3 Line

John Farndale (FAR00196), 1772 – 1842

The Loftus 1 Line

William Farndale (FAR00152), 1739-1813

The Kilton 2 Line

William Farndale (FAR00123), 1690

The Liverton 2 Line

George Farndale (FAR00103), 1662-1740

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.

Chronology of the Stockton 1 Line

16 March 1796	John Farndale, son of John and Jane Farndale, was born in Brotton.
30 December 1827	John Farndale married Elizabeth Wallace in Brotton.
30 August 1829	John Farndale Junior, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was baptised in Kildale. John Farndale Senior was a labourer.
1835	George Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Roxby or Stockton.
1837	Mary Farndale, daughter of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Roxby. She married Thomas Dods in 1855 in the Guisborough area. Roxby is 8 km south of Loftus. John Farndale Senior was a farmer.
1838	Jane Farndale, daughter of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Roxby. Jane was buried in Oxbridge Lane Cemetery, Stockton on 21 July 1893. John Farndale Senior was an agricultural labourer.
14 February 1839	Peter Wallis Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was baptised in Whitby. Peter died in 1840 aged 3. He was buried on 23 April 1840 at St Hilda, Hinderwell.
1840	Hannah Farndale, daughter of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born. Hannah was buried on 4 April 1845 in Whitby.
By 1841	John Farndale Senior was a farmer in Hinderwell, near Roxby.
1843	Sarah Farndale, daughter of John and Elizabeth farndale, was born in Roxby. She probably died at birth or very young.
6 July 1845	William Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was baptised in Kirkleatham.
1846	Sarah Farndale, daughter of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Roxby. It is possible she was born before William Farndale, which would make more sense of her birth place.
13 November 1847	Pater Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale, was born in Kirkleatham.
By 1851	The family had moved to Kirkleatham. George Farndale was an apprentice with William Brayshay, a chemist, druggist, grocer and tea dealer in Stockton.
16 July 1854	John Farndale Junior, aged 25, a farm servant of Kirkleatham, married Ann Thrattles at Easington.
14 April 1856	Mary Ann Farndale, daughter of John and Ann Farndale, was baptised at Redcar. She died in 1933 and is buried at St Peter, Brotton.
28 March 1858	William Ralph Farndale, son of John and Ann Farndale, was born in Stockton. He died aged 11, and was buried on 3 May 1870 at St Thomas Church, Stockport.
By 1861	John Farndale Senior was an iron foundry labourer in Stockton. John Farndale Junior was a grocer’s warehouseman at Stockton. William Farndale and Peter Farndale were both general clerks to a solicitor in Stockton.
28 February 1864	Jane Ellen Farndale, daughter of John and Ann Farndale, was baptised at Stockton.
5 August 1865	George Farndale, a druggist, married Catherine Wemyss Leng at Salem Chapel, West Row, Stockton.
10 March 1867	Sarah Hannah (or Ann) Farndale, daughter of John and Ann Farndale, was baptised in Stockton. She married George Foreman or Alfred Windrose in 1889 in Stockton.
1867	Mary Frances Farndale, daughter of George and Catherine Farndale, was born in Stockton. She died aged 7.
28 October 1868	John Farndale died of ‘natural decay’ at the age of 72 in Stockton.
3 July 1869	Margaret Elizabeth Farndale, daughter of John and Ann Farndale, was born in Stockton.
1870	Catherine Wiley Farndale, daughter of George and Catherine Farndale, was born in Stockton. She died aged 4.
1 May 1870	(Darlington and Richmond Herald, 7 May 1870)
By 1871	Sarah Farndale was head of household aged 27 at Sidney Street, Stockton, living with William Farndale, 25, Peter Farndale, 23 and Ann Brown, her niece, aged 12.
2 May 1871	By 1871, William Farndale appears to have been a court clerk in Stockton: Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 2 May 1871 STOCKTON BOROUGH POLICE COURT APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMONSES. Mr Simpson complained of a number of boys who were in the habit of frequenting Shaftesbury terrace, Yarm Lane and causing a disturbance there by getting a cart, raising it up in front of the houses, climbing the shafts and shouting relatedly … Mr Farndale, the deputy clerk, said it was a breach of the law, and the Bench ordered a summons to be issued.
1872	Annie Louisa Farndale, daughter of George and Catherine Farndale, was born in Stockton. She died aged 2.
1 May 1872	Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser, 4 May 1872: Stockton Police Court ASSAULTS … Wm Harwood, charged with assaulting Peter Farndale, on the 1st May, was fined 10s and 14s costs, or fourteen days’ hard labour.
1873	Sarah Farndale married Jesse Howarth or Bowden in the Guisborough area.
7 December 1873	John Farndale Junior, a widower and warehouseman, married Ellen Thrattles (his sister in law?) at Stockton.
214 December 1873	(Shields Daily Gazette, 24 December 1873)
By 1873	George Farndale was a druggist and grocer in Middlesbrough, but filing for bankruptcy.
17 to 28 December 1874	Mary Frances Farndale aged 7; Catherine Wiley Farndale, aged 4; and Annie Louisa Farndale, aged 2, all daughters of George and Catherine Farndale, all died. Mary and Catherine died on 17 December and Annie died on 28 December 1874. They are all buried at Oxbridge Cemetery, Stockton. There was a smallpox pandemic in 1870 to 1874, which originated in France. The Vaccination Act 1853 helped to mitigate its effect in England, but perhaps this was the cause of three sisters dying the same year. There was also a cholera epidemic at the time.
7 April 1875	George Farndale served on a jury in 1875: (York Herald, 10 April 1875)
26 April 1875	York Herald STOCKTON ON TEES SERIOUS STABBING CASE … The condition of Parkinson was such as rendered it necessary for his deposition to be immediately taken; and this was accordingly done by Mr P Farndale, deputy magistrate’s clerk in the presence of Mr WB Brayshay, JP.
17 July 1875	(Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser) (Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 23 July 1875)
1876	William Leng Farndale, son of George and Catherine Farndale, was born in Middlesbrough.
13 October 1876	Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 13 October 1876 THEFT OF A DIAMOND RING AT STOCKTON … Mr Farndale (deputy clerk) said the Bench had no power to grant more than 2s 6d. On referring to the Act, he was unable to find any special regulations were made upon the subject, upon which Mr Eaton asked to be allowed to produce the section, which was agreed to.
19 May 1877	(South Durham and Cleveland Mercury)
1 June 1878	Leeds Times, 1 June 1878: Mr Micawber was waiting for me within the gate, and he went up to his room (top storey but one), and cried very much. He solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning of his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one, he would be miserable. The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger Charles Dickens, 1850
9 January 1879	Peter Farndale, a solicitors’ clerk of Stockton, married Margaret Duncan Devereux in Stockton.
By 1881	George Farndale was a druggist’s assistant in Liverpool. Peter Farndale was a solicitor’s general clerk in Stockton. Jane Ellen Farndale was working for Appleton Richardson, a butcher of Billingham, Stockton.
16 April 1881	Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser:
10 December 1881	(Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough)
1887	George Farndale died in Gateshead.
6 March 1889	(North Star (Darlington))
20 July 1889	Margaret Elizabeth Farndale appears to have gained a certificate to be a Preceptor (a teacher) in York in 1889.
By 1891	Peter Farndale, 43, was a solicitor’s clerk living at Hartington Road, Stockton. Margaret D Farndale, 37 was also living there. Also living there was William Farndale, 45, also a solicitor’s clerk. Jane Ellen Farndale was still working for Appleton Richardson, who was by then a cattle dealer. William Leng Farndale was clerk to an iron foundry at Gateshead.
20 June 1895	Peter Farndale, aged 48, was buried at Oxbridge Lane Cemetery, Stockton.
1 August 1895	William Farndale was buried at Durham Road Cemetery, Stockton on Tees.
1896	William Leng Farndale married Margaret Johnston in Sunderland.
3 February 1896	Could this have been one of the Stockton 1 Farndales? (North Star (Darlington), 3 February 1896) The Rechabites were a religious order keen to promote abstinence from alcohol.
18 April 1899	(Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough)
10 May 1899	John Farndale Junior died and was buried at Oxbridge Lane Cemetery, Stockton.
19 January 1904	Catherine Dorothy Farndale, daughter of William Leng and Dorothy Farndale, was born in Rothbury. Catherine was a clerk with the Rothbury Brewing Co and married William Hornsby in 1922. She died in 1986.
1906	Frances Mary Farndale, daughter of William Leng and Dorothy Farndale, was born in Rothbury. She was a waitress. She died in 1998.
1907	William Leng Farndale continued the business of Brewers and Wine Merchants trading as Geo Storey and Company in Rothbury, Northumberland. Rothbury Brewery traded as George Storey Limited. The pubs owned by George Storey and Company were the Blue Bell Inn, Rothbury; the Turk’s Head Inn, Rothbury, the Three Wheat Heads Inn, Thropton; The Star Inn, Netherton; and the Tarset In, Tarset, Near Bellingham. The business was acquired by James Aitken & Co (Falkirk) Limited in 1911.
By 1911	William Leng Farndale was a brewer’s branch manager in Rothbury.
9 January 1911	Kenneth Farndale, son of William Leng and Dorothy Farndale, was born in Rothbury. Kenneth was a general labourer who briefly travelled to Canada between 1927 to 1931 under the emigration of boys to Canada programme. He died in 1979.
20 March 1913	George Patrick Farndale, son of William Leng and Dorothy Farndale, was born in Rothbury. He married Mary Freeman in 1941. He was a heavy worker with roadstone quarries. He is Founder of the Northumberland Line.
1915	Margaret Farndale, daughter of William Leng and Dorothy Farndale, was born in Rothbury. Margaret was a hotel waitress. She married Malcolm Withycombe in 1940.
1918	Winifreda (Freda) Farndale, daughter of William Leng and Dorothy Farndale, was born in Rothbury. Freda married Edward Milburn in 1938. She died in 2012.
1920	Nancy Farndale, daughter of William Leng and Dorothy Farndale, was born in Rothbury. Nancy married William Freeman (perhaps the brother of Mary Freeman who married her brother George) in 1943. She died in 1998.
1926	Catherine W Farndale, widow of George Farndale, died at Rothbury.
1932	William Leng Farndale died in Rothbury.
1948	Margaret Elizabeth farndale died in Blackburn.
1951	Jane Ellen Farndale died, aged 87, in South Shields.