The Tidkinhow Line

Tidkinhow Farm, near Guisborough, about 1900 - Kate, Catherine, Alfred and Elizabeth (Lynn) - Martin and Catherine moved here in about 1884

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from Martin Farndale and Catherine Lindsay who settled at Tidkinhow Farm on the North York Moors

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

Martin Farndale was born in Skelton and after moving to Kilton Thorpe and then Tranmire Farm near Whitby, the family settled at Tidkinhow Farm. He was married to Catherine Lindsay and they had twelve children. This is their story.

This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Tidkinhow 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	The Lindsay Line The Lindsays The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay’s family
					Martin Farndale 19 September 1845 to 17 January 1928 Married Catherine Jane Lindsay Farmer of Tidkinhow whose children emigrated to Canada and US and many of whom settled in Yorkshire Tidkinhow, Skelton, Brotton, Kilton, Tranmire, Tancred Grange, Boosbeck FAR00364	Catherine Jane Lindsay 28 July 1854 to 14 July 1911 From Alnwick LIN00001
John Farndale 24 December 1877 to 29 April 1970 Married Elsie Maude Hammond in 1928 Miner and farmer of Kilton and Tidkinhow. The last Farndale at Tidkinhow Tidkinhow, Kilton, Darlington FAR00553	Elizabeth Lindsay (“Lynn”) Farndale 25 January 1880 to 2 February 1944 Married George Barker in 1903 Kilton, Brotton, Scorton, Tancred Grange, Redcar FAR00564	Martin Farndale 8 June 1881 to 11 September 1943 Married his cousin Ruth Farndale (FAR00619) in 1929. Ironstone miner for a while before emigrating to Canada in 1905 after which he became a cattle farmer in Alberta Kilton, Tidkinhow, Alberta (Trochu), Calgary FAR00571	George Farndale 9 January 1882 to 4 May 1954 Farmer at Three Hills, Alberta Three Hills Alberta, Tranmire, Tidkinhow, Calgary FAR00588	Catherine (Kate”) Jane Farndale 16 June 1884 to 9 September 1966 Travelled to Quebec arriving on 24 July 1913 Married William Henry Kinsey on 28 June 1917 Maternal ancestor of the Kinsey Family in Alberta Three Hills and Trochu, Alberta, Tidkinhow, Whitby, Tranmire FAR00601	James (“Jim”) Farndale 22 December 1885 to 20 January 1967 Married Edna Adams Carpenter, Union Leader and Senator for Nevada State Las Vegas, Nevada; California, Tidkinhow, Alberta FAR00607	William Farndale 22 July 1887 to 21 July 1889 Died aged 2 Tidkinhow, Skelton FAR00625	Mary Frances Farndale 22 January 1889 to 1988 Married George Brown in 1920 A confectionist who lived near Harrogate Tidkinhow, Guisborough, Harrogate, Leeds, Low Gatherley, Northallerton FAR00634	William Farndale 29 January 1892 to 23 November 1918 Butcher Served in the Canadian Army in WW1 and died of flu epidemic shortly after the War ended Trochu, Alberta; Regina, Sakatchuan; Tidkinhow FAR00647	Grace Alice Farndale 21 April 1893 to 1992 Married Howard Holmes in 1935 Tidkinhow, Huxley and Calgary, Alberta and Leyburn FAR00659	Dorothy Annie Farndale 24 March 1895 to 1981 Married Alfred Ross in 1928 and Robert Drake in 1970 Alfred Ross farmed at Skelton Green Tidkinhow, Skelton, Leyburn FAR00668	Alfred (“Alf”) Farndale 5 July 1897 to 30 May 1987 Married Margaret Louise (Peggy) Baker on 16 March 1928 Soldier in WW1 and farmer in Alberta and Wensleydale Tidkinhow, Middleton One Row, Leyburn, Wensley, Trochu Alberta, Thornton le Moor FAR00683
	The Barker Family			The Kinsey Family	The American 1 Line		The Brown Family				The Wensleydale Line
Margaret Barker 27 February 1904 to 13 August 1998 Married John K Shield	Mary Barker 24 August 1905 to 1979 Married Jonathan A Richardson	William (“Willie”) Barker 4 February 1907 to 1994	John Barker 31 October 1908 to 28 January 1986 Married Hannah E M Wardman	George Barker 17 July 1911 to 1955 Married Kathleen Mellanby	Dorothy W Barker 28 December 1912 to 2007 Married Thomas Westgarth (b 1910)		Ena Brown
George Shield 1932	Robert W Shield 1937				George W Westgarth 1938
				George H Kinsey 1919 Married Marjorie	Dorothy Kinsey 1920 to 2013 Married Walter J Goodbrand (1918 to 2010)	Alfred Kinsey 11 January 1921 to 12 November 2018 Married Oneta L Davis (1927 to 2012)
	Carolyn Goodbrand	Gordon Goodbrand	Ken Goodbrand	Lorraine Goodbrand Married MSN Corbett	Shirley Goodbrand Married MSN Johnson	Marilee Kinsey	Marvin Kinsey 1965

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 Tidkinhow Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Tidkinhow Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Tidkinhow 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 Lindsays The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay’s family	The Farndales of Tidkinhow The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow and the adventures of twelve siblings who lived in a house that wasn’t big enough for them all	The Tidkinhow Line	Atlantic crossings at the time of Titanic The story of five brothers and two sisters who crossed the Atlantic in the age of Titanic to emigrate to Canada	The Albertans The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow who left Yorkshire for a new life on the Prairies