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The Wensleydale Line
The descendants of Alfred Farndale and Margaret Louisa (nee Baker) Farndale
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The
Story of the Wensleydale Line
Alfred
Farndale was born at Tidkinhow in 1897, the youngest of twelve children. In
1928 he married Peggy Baker and they emigrated to Alberta, where they lived
until 1935. Three of their four children were born there. They returned to
Yorkshire in 1935 and their fourth child, Margot was born. During the Second
World War, Alfred took the tenancy of Gale Bank Farm from Lord Bolton and
farmed there until he retired, after which time his son Geoff continued to farm
there. This is the story of the Wensleydale Farndales.
The genealogical chart showing the Wensleydale Line
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Geoff Martin Anne Alfred Peggy Margot At Gale Bank in about 1986 |
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Alfred Farndale
5 July 1897 to 30 May 1987 Married Margaret Louise 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 |
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Margaret Louisa Baker (“Peggy”)
24 February 1901 to 17 November 1996 |
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Alfred’s family in 1986 Follow this link to more details about Gale Bank Farm |
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General Sir Martin Baker Farndale KCB
6 January 1929 to 10 May 2000 Married Anne Buckingham on 13 August 1955 Commander in Chief British Army of the Rhine; Commander Northern Army Group of NATO at time of the Cold War, Master Gunner St James Park, KCB Trochu, Alberta; Wensley; Northallerton; British Army of the Rhine; Goring by sea, Angmering on sea |
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Marianne (Anne) Catherine Farndale
30 October 1930 Married Norman Shepherd Alberta, Glasgow, Northallerton |
= Norman Shepherd
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Alfred Geoffrey (Geoff) Farndale 10 April 1932 Married Barbara White in 1961 Farmer in Wensleydale Trochu, Alberta, Northallerton, Wensley, Barnard Castle |
= Barbara White
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Margaret (Margot) Lindsey Farndale
= William (Billy) Atkinson
8 October 1937 Married William (Billy) Atkinson Thornton-le-moor, Gammmersgill |
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Richard Martin Farndale 17 April 1963 Married Charlotte Coutts in 1990 Artillery officer and lawyer Epsom, Sussex, BAOR, Hampshire, Edinburgh |
= Charlotte Winifred Blanche Coutts
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Christine Barbara Farndale
23 November 1962 Married John Richardson in 1989 Wensleydale, Hutton Magna |
= John Richardson
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Nigel Geoffrey Farndale
30 September 1964 Journalist and author Married Mary Craig-McFeely in 1992 Wensleydale, Lambeth, Hampshire |
= Mary
Craig-McFeely |
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The Richardson Family |
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James (“Jamie”) Martin Richard Farndale
21 February 1994 Scotland Rugby Player Edinburgh, London |
= Katie Smith
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Sarah Louise Farndale
15 May 1997 Wealth Manager, Brewin Dolphin Edinburgh, London |
Olivia Anne M Richardson 1991 Barnard Castle |
Victoria Grace (Tory) Richardson 1993 Barnard Castle |
William George (Will) Richardson 1996 Barnard Castle |
Alfred (Alf) Edmund Douglas Farndale
1998 London, Hampshire |
Samuel (Sam) Digby Martin Farndale 2000 London, Hampshire |
Joseph (Joe) Benedict Rex Farndale
2004 London, Hampshire |
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The Shepherd Family |
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The Atkinson Family |
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Stephen
Geoffrey Shepherd 1957
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David
Michael Shepherd 1960 |
Catherine Jean Shepherd 1962
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Judith
Margaret Atkinson 1962
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= Ian
Carlisle
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= Brian
Fawcett
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1966 |
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Laura Shepherd 1984 Michael Shepherd 1985 |
Nick
Carlisle |
Phil Carlisle |
Harry
Carlisle |
James
Fawcett |
Robert
Fawcett |
Rachel
Fawcett |
Thomas
Atkinson |
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The Ancestry of
the Wensleydale Line
The Wensleydale
Line can trace directly back to 1512 from Alfred Farndale to Nicholas Farndaile
as follows:
Alfred Farndale (FAR00683), 1897
- 1987
Martin Farndale (of Tidkinhow), (FAR00364),
1845-1928
Martin Farndale (of Fogga,
Skelton), (FAR00264),
1818-1862
George Farndale, (FAR00215),
1790-1858
William Farndale, (FAR00183),
1760-?
John Farndale ("Old Farndale" of Kilton), (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.
Chronology of the Wensleydale Line
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5 July 1897 |
Alfred Farndale, the son of Martin and Catherine
(nee Lindsay) Farndale, was born at Tidkinhow Farm. |
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1901 |
Alfred Farndale aged 3 was with Kate Farndale (born
1854) and the Heslop family from Alwick. He is shown as their nephew. So
presumably he was with his mother, Catherine (Kate) and perhaps her sister. |
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24 February 1901 |
Margaret Louisa Baker was born at Audlem, Cheshire.
Her family lived at Swanbach Villa, Audlem, Cheshire. |
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1902 |
Alfred Farndale in 1902 Alfred later recalled: "I remember going to
school at Charltons near Tidkinhow. We then went to Standard 1 at Boosbeck.
We stayed there until we were 14. It was a two mile walk each day. The
headmaster was Mr Ranson. I remember Jim, my elder brother catching me
fishing and playing truant. He just said "Get
in" (he was in a pony and trap) and he took me to a days marketing at
Stokesley. I remember the second masters name was Ackroyd. I got a fork
through my leg and he sucked it out. We were always
inspected as we arrived at school. We had to walk passed
the Bainbridge place and people used to say that he had more sheep on the
moor than he was allowed. I remember William looking after me at mother's
funeral. I was crying and very upset.” |
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Abut 1910 |
The boys of Tidkinhow in about 1910
John, James, Alfred, William, George, Martin
(inset)
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1916 to 1920 |
83795 Private Alfred
Farndale, Machine Gun Corps, awarded the British War Medal and the Victory
Medal. Served in France, Iraq and India. The war came in 1914
and I was just 17. I wanted to join up so I ran away and joined up at the
local recruiting office at Northallerton, somewhere in South Parade I think.
I joined the West Yorks but my father found out and said I was under age,
which I was. The CO wanted me to stay on the band, but father wouldn't hear
of it and I came out. I remember being very proud of my first leave in
uniform. Then one day they called for volunteers for the Machine-Gun Corps
and I stepped forward. We went to Belton Park, near Grantham for training. I
joined 239th Company MGC and we were attached to the Middlesex Regiment. In
1917 we sailed for Calais and went to "Dickiebush" Camp. We were
first in action at Westbrook and Polygon Wood. I remember an incident on the
Menin Road galloping up with two limbers of ammunition towards the gun
positions at Hooge. I was a Private but I was giving a lift to Quarter Master
Sergeant Zaccarelli. The Germans started to shell us. They could clearly see
us. I had one horse killed and I managed to cut him free and I then rode the
other. Zaccarelli was killed; it was quite a party when I reported it. My
Captain asked if there were any witnesses but there were none, otherwise I
might have got something. I remember an officer coming up to me when we were
under bombardment at Ypres and saying "How would you like to be in
Saltburn now, Farndale?" We saw some action at Zonnebeke, Ploegstraat
and Arras. Then suddenly we were ordered to Marseilles and got on a troopship
for Basra in Mesoptamia. After about 14 days we were in the Suez Canal and
then the Red Sea. We landed at Basra and marched to Kut-el-Amara as part of a
force under General Maud to relieve Townsend. About the middle of 1918 the
Turks surrendered. We hung around for quite a while. I cut my thumb on a
bully beef tin and it got poisoned. I was in hospital in Kut when 239th
Company left for England. I eventually got to Mosul where I thought my unit
was and met my platoon commander Lieutenant Pearson. He asked me where I had
been and put me in charge of the officers mess. We had some Punjabi officers
at the time and they used to knock me up to try to get whiskey! Later in 1918
we were ordered to Bombay. I remember I had to take my stripes down on the
troopship. We were sent up to the Afghan frontier for a while and we had
quite a lot of trouble in the local bazaars. Eventually in early
1919 I think, we got a troopship to England. We landed at Southampton. I
remember we were told that we could keep our greatcoats or take £1 when we
were demobbed on Salisbury Plain. I took the £1! I remember arriving at
Middlesborough station very late at night and sleeping on the platform. I got
the first train next day to Guisborough and actually arrived at Tidkinhow
before they were up! This would be in 1919. I know that I was clear of the
army by the start of 1920. I wish I had stayed in. I really did like the army
life. But I had to come out.
Alfred in the First
World War
Machine Gun Corps at Belton Park, Grantham in 1917 |
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About 1920 |
Alfred Farndale about 1920 “I then went to Tancred Grange to help my eldest
sister Lynn whose husband had died in 1918. I spent my time between Tancred
and Tidkinhow till I married your mother on 16 March 1928 at Bedale Parish
Church.”
Peggy Baker |
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About 1922 |
The cottages at Scorton
where Grace Farndale and Margaret Baker (later married Alfred) had a poultry
farm in about 1922. |
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1927 |
Alfred at Tidkinhow in 1927
Alfred at Scourton in 1927 |
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16 March 1928 |
Alfred Farndale married Margaret Louisa Baker at
Bedale Parish Church.
Almost immediately after their wedding, they
emigrate to Canada in March1928, remained there until 1935. Alfred
later recalled I married your mother on 16 March 1928 at Bedale Parish
Church. Martin was over from Canada and he was best
man. It was just after my father died in January 1928. My eldest brother,
John took over Tidkinhow. Peggy and I had already decided to join the
'Canadians' [his brothers Jim, Martin and George and his sister Kate] in
Alberta. We went to Huxley and rented a section of the CPR
and you three children were born. However we had bad
luck with crops and the slump and we had to go back to England in 1935.
Alfred building the Farndale House on arrival in
Alberta The
House that Alfred Built |
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6 January 1929 |
Martin Farndale, son of Alfred and Peggy Farndale,
was born in Trochu, Alberta. |
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30 October 1930 |
Marianne Catherin (“Anne”) Farndale, daughter of
Alfred and Peggy Farndale, was born in Trochu, Alberta. Marianne Catherine
Farndale, came to England in 1935 and lived and went to school in Yorkshire.
She joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and served at Gosport.
After marriage she lived in Calgary in Canada, in Glasgow and Northallerton.
She had three children (Stephen, David and
Catherine) |
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About 1930 |
Alfred Farndale about
1930
Martin, aged 1
year and 9 months at Huxley in September 1930 |
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About 1931 |
The Canadian Farndales
at the Kinseys in about 1931 Martin Farndale George Farndale Ruth Farndale Will Kinsey Alfred Farndale Jim Farndale Martin Jim Kate Grace George Alfred Alfred Kinsey Edna Farndale Jimmy Farndale Martin Farndale Grace Farndale
Dorothy Kinsey
Janie Farndale
Martin and Anne, Vancouver 1931 |
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10 April 1932 |
Alfred Geoffrey Fardale (“Geoff”) was born in
Trochu, Alberta. |
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About 1933 |
At the Kinseys in Three Hills in about 1933 Alfred
Kinsey Alfred
Farndale Dorothy Kinsey Peggy
Farndale Grace Holmes Martin
Farndale Bill Kinsey Anne
Farndale Kate
Farndale Howard Holmes
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1934 |
Holidays in the Rockies and Sylvan lake (middle left
photo is Martin and Anne taken by lake in Rocky Mountains in 1934)
Martin, Geoff and Anne at the farm at Huxley in 1934 |
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1936 |
Alfred and his family
returned from Alberta to Yorkshire. He later recalled We had a farm in
Middleton-One-Row in 1936 and then we moved to Sycamore Lodge at
Thornton-le-Moor near Northallerton in 1937. That was where Margot was born.
It was too small though and we left it in 1940 after the war had started. We
then lived at 117 Crosby Road, Northallerton. I was a farm contractor doing
ploughing and threshing. It was very hard work and very long hours. I was
Special Constable as well. Then, in January 1943, we moved to Gale Bank Farm
at Wensley. We had been looking for farms for years and this was easily the
best, so our luck had changed. It was then about 400 acres, but now it is
more. Peggy and I retired in 1972 and we are now living at "Highfields",
Eller Close Road, Leyburn."
Joruney home from
Canada
Gale Bank Farm,
Wensleydale |
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8 October 1937 |
Margaret (Margot)
Lindsey Farndale, daughter of Alfred and Peggy Farndale, was born at Thornton
le Moor. |
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About 1938 |
Alfred’s wife Peggy,
with the family, at Thornton le Moor in about 1938 |
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1940 |
Alfred Farndale about
1940 |
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3 September 1946 |
Martin Farndale joined
the Indian Army. He transferred to the British Army in 1947 and went to the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he was commissioned into the Royal
Artillery. Served in Egypt, Germany, Malaya, South Arabia, Ireland. He
commanded The Chestnut Troop, 1st Regiment RHA, 7th Armoured Brigade, 2nd
Armoured Division, 1st British Corps and Northern Army Group. He became
Commander-in-Chief British Army of the
Rhine and Master Gunner St James’s Park. Awarded General Service Medal with
clasps for Malaya, South Arabia and Northern Ireland. Awarded Silver Jubilee
Medal in 1977, Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1980 and Knight
Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1983. Awarded 125th Anniversary of
Canada Medal for services to Canada. Hon Degree Literature at Greenwich
University. |
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Alfred’s
daughters, Anne and Margot |
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1950 |
Martin Farndale, 1950, aged 21 |
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1954 |
At the ‘Club’
in Skelton during Jim’s visit to Yorkshire in 1954 - Alfred, John and James at table, with Jim (son of James)
behind. |
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1954 |
Marianne Catherine (“Anne”) Farndale, married in
1954 at Chatham District, Norman Shepherd. They had three children. Norman died on 17 December 1996.
Anne Farndale |
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13 August 1955 |
Martin Baker Farndale, age 26, bachelor, Captain
Royal Artillery of Gale Bank Farm Wensley Yorkshire, son of Alfred Farndale,
farmer, married by Banns Margaret Anne Buckingham, age 27 spinster of Mill
House, Findon daughter of Percy Robert Buckingham, contractor. Witnesses
Reginald Cecil Chapman, Margaret Louisa Farndale and Etheldreda Annie
Buckingham. NW Lydeker Vicar. |
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1959 |
Margot Farmndale marred Thomas William (“Billy”) Atkinson
in Wesleydale. She lives in Yorkshire and has three children (Susan, Judith
and William) and seven grandchildren. |
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10 April 1961 |
Geoff Farndale married Barbara White. |
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1962 |
Christine Barbara Farndale, daughter of Geoff and
Barbara Farndale, was born. |
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17 April 1963 |
Richard Martin Farndale, son of Martin and Anne
Farndale, was born in Epsom, Surrey. |
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1964 |
Nigel Geoffrey Farndale, son of Geoff and Barbara
Farndale, was born. |
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Grace with Anne and Stephen perhaps? The caption
says ‘a kite was flying’ |
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1969 |
Leitenant Colonel Martin Farndale, Commanding
Officer First Regiment Royal Horse Artillery The Freedom of the City of
Nottongham |
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16 March 1978 |
Alfred and Peggy’s Golden Wedding
Geoff Anne Martin Peggy Margot Alfred
Martin jokes with Alfred and Anne Peggy
(Granny) amongst her grandchildren Grace with
Stephen Anne
and husband Norman
Geoff Anne Martin
Alfred and Peggy cut the cake Peggy (Granny) Margot Alfred
(Gran) |
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1980s |
Alfred then known by all as ‘Gran’ at Gale Bank Farm in
the 1980s
General Sir Martin Farndale KCB, Commander 7 Armoured
Brigade, 2 Armoured Division, 1st British Corps, and Northern Army
Group of NATO during the Cold War |
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1986 |
The house at Eller Close Road, Leyburn where Alfred and Peggy retired Gran under the tree at Gale Bank Farmhouse Granny at Eller Close Road
Alfred, Peggy and and family in
1986
Geoff Martin
Anne Alfred Peggy Margot
Geoffrey’s family in about 1986 Nigel Barbara Christine Geoff |
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30 May 1987 |
Alfred Farndale died at Ruston Hospital,
Northallerton and is buried at Wensley Church. |
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Martin Baker Farndale became a Director of Short
Brothers plc, Defence Adviser to Westland Helicopters and to Deloitte &
Touche in the City. He became a Freeman of the City of London and a member of
the Wheelwrights Livery. He became Chairman Royal Artillery Museums Ltd and
he wrote several books on military history and carried out this family
history. After Army Service they lived at East Preston West Sussex. |
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17 November 1996 |
Margaret Louisa Farndale (“Peggy”) died in Leyburn. |
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10 May 2000 |
General Sir Martin Baker Farndale KCB died at
Cromwell Hospital, London on 10 May 2000 and buried at Wensley Church. A
memorial service was held at St Martin in the Fields in London. |
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2016 |
A reunion at Tidkinhow
Christine Richardson (nee Farndale); John
Richardson; Ian Carlisle; Judith Carlisle (nee Atkinson); Margot Atkinson
(nee Farndale); Nick Carlisle; Ann Shepherd (nee Farndale); Stephen Shepherd;
Sarah Farndale; Jamie Farndale; Barbara Farndale; Tory Richardson; Nigel
Farndale; Joe Farndale; Sam Farndale; William Atkinson; Brian Fawcett; Rosie
Atkinson (back); Catherine Wylie (nee Atkinson)(front);
Geoff Farndale; Susan Fawcett; Richard Farndale. (The Wensleydale Farndales - descendants of Alfred
Farndale)
Margot Atkinson (nee Farndale); Ann Shepherd (nee
Farndale) and Geoffrey Farndale |
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