The Wakefield 1 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from Thomas Farndale and Sarah Bell

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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

The genealogy of Robert Farndale who was brought up on Craggs Farm is now to be found as part of the Craggs Line.

This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Wakefield 1 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

Thomas Farndale was born in 1839 near Whitby and moved to Wakefield where he was an inn keeper. He married Sarah Bell and they had five children including Joseph who became Chief Constable of Margate, York and Bradford and Traffic Commissioner for Yorkshire.

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 Whitby 5 Line
				Thomas Farndale 24 June 1839 to 22 December 1919 Married Sarah Bell on 20 April 1862, and then Alice Dowell on 13 August 1900 Innkeeper in Wakefield (Smith's Arms) Newholm, Whitby, Eskdaleside, Wakefield, York, Scalby, Scarborough FAR00344
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George Henry Farndale 1854 to 1925 Born in Portsea, with which Samuel Farndale was later associated, so likely to have been related and given timings, would have been an elder brother perhaps. It may have been Thomas who first had some interest with Portsea. Portsea Island, Hampshire, Burton on Trent FAR00406	John Farndale 1856 to 8 March 1922 He was likely to have been a son of Thomas Farndale, born out of marriage, when Thomas would have only been about 17 Monumental sculptor Married Rose Taylor in about 1883 Wakefield, Leeds FAR00424		Thomas Dawson Farndale 29 October 1862 to 6 April 1940 A stone mason, clerk of works and civil engineer Married Sarah Emily Davis on 19 May 1898 and Isabel E Yeoman in 1932 No children Wakefield, Leeds, Plymouth, Louth FAR00452	Joseph Farndale CBE KPM 6 April 1864 to 22 February 1954 Chief Constable of Margate, York and Bradford. Traffic Commissioner for Yorkshire. Married Emma Selby in 1883 and Maggie Emmott on 31 December 1937 Halifax, Wakefield, Margate, York, Claro, Bradford FAR00463	Samuel Farndale 5 May 1866 to 14 July 1936 Married Pollie Chesters on 25 May 1895 Grandson of John Farndale (FAR00262) and lived with him for a time, Clerk of Portsea who later lived in London Clerk of Portsea who later lived in London and worked in the civil service with the Admiralty rising from clerk to clerk to the engineer in chief Wakefield, Portsea, Nantwich, Wandsworth, Croydon FAR00475	Margaret Farndale 20 March 1868 to 1 February 1955 Married James Smith Law on 24 May 1893 James Law was a publican like his father in law Wakefield, York, Scarborough, Agbrigg FAR00487	Henry Farndale 5 August 1870 to 1872 Wakefield FAR00504
					The London 1 Line	Kathleen Margaret Law (Born 1895 and lived with Thomas Dawson Farndale in 1901), Martha Farndale Law (Born 1897), John Henry Law (Born 1902)
Henry Farndale 4 January 1884 to 1951 Solicitor’s clerk, engineer’s draughtsman, accountant Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant in the Royal Field Artillery in WW1. He was gassed in 1917. Married Grace Elizabeth Bell on 27 December 1913 Leeds FAR00596B	John William Farndale 18 May 1886 to 29 June 1954 Married Dorothy Doris Chamberlain on 21 April 1916 He served 434th (Siege) Battery and L Battery Royal Artillery and suffered a gas attack Sorting clerk and leather salesman Leeds, Leicester FAR00615	Ethel Margaret Farndale 14 July 1889 to 1967 Shorthand clerk and secretary in the machine trade Leeds, Wakefield FAR00639A
	The Leicester Line
			Florence Selby Farndale 30 April 1884 to 10 November 1952 Married Charles Pickles (textile manufacturer) on 7 June 1911 Halifax, Brierley, Bradford, Harrogate FAR00600	Eveline Farndale 30 October 1885 to 30 October 1974 Halifax, Claro, Bradford, Harrogate FAR00602	Emma Elsie Gladys Farndale 31 May 1893 to 14 April 1988 Married Percy Norwood twice in 1923 and remarried in 1949 Halifax, Bradford, Bulmer FAR00657
Edward Francis Farndale 14 November 1914 to 21 November 2002 Architect’s assistant and machine tool inspector Married Avril Mary Green in 1947 Leeds, Liverpool, Boston and New York, Bournemouth, Ipswich FAR00809	Henry Stewart Farndale 27 September 1916 to 11 May 1945 Married Maria Patchett in 1940 Corporal in RAF, pilot under training who was killed when his tiger moth crashed in 1945 Bradford, Leeds, Meriden FAR00832
	The Bradford 3 Line		The family below are really only known through the record of Thomas Farndale who appears to have been related somehow to Joseph Farndale, the Chief Constable
			Sarah Farndale Born Old Kent Road 1842 Otherwise no record
		Thomas Farndale 1877 to 19 December 1919 Brockley, Camberwell, Wandsworth Store Fitter FAR00547A	Florence Farndale Born New Cross Surrey, 1877 General domestic servant Marred James Simmons perhaps in 1949 at Paddington But no record of birth

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The Deeper Ancestry of the Wakefield 1 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Wakefield 1 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Wakefield 1 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 History of Whitby to 1850 A history of Whitby at the height of its maritime power in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, home to several large Farndale families. A look back to the Anglo Saxon history of Whitby in the time of Celtic and Roman Christianity	A Perspective of Whitby The place of Dracula inspiration where many Farndales have been buried, provides a vantage point over Whitby, and its maritime activity	The Whitby 5 Line	The Victorian Policemen To contrast with the medieval outlaw poachers of Pickering Forest, the story of the law makers including two influential Chief Constables and the real Inspector Foyle	Joseph Farndale 1842 to 1901 The Chief Victorian Constable of Birmingham who foiled a Jack the Ripper Hoax and played a key role in uncovering the Ledsam Dynamite Conspiracy
	The Second World War soldiers, sailors and airmen The story of the Farndales who took up arms in the Second World War The Second World War Soldiers The context of the Second World War	The First World War Soldiers The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War The First World War The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story	The Wakefield 1 Line	Joseph Farndale CBE KPM 1864 to 1954 The Chief Constable of Bradford who pioneered the use of fingerprints, invented the police box, and played a key role in Bradford’s evolution at the start of the twentieth century