The
Wetherby 2 Line
The genealogy of a line of Farndales, descended from Ken
Farndale and Edna Webster
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family’s journey through two thousand years of British History |
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historical family ordered by date of birth |
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This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Wetherby 2
Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.
Ken Farndale was born near Darlington
and had a small family in the Wetherby area.
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.
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Kenneth
(Ken) Farndale 24 December 1922 to 22
November 1992 Farmer Married Edna Elizabeth
Webster in 1943 (she died in 1982) Married Elizabeth Josephine
Robinson in 1988 Darlington, Leeds,
Wetherby, Barkston Ash, Northallerton |
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David S
Farndale 1944 Married Joyce Bell in 1967 Wetherby, Thirsk, Teeside, Howden,
Cleveland |
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Sheelagh
E Farndale 1947 Married Peter Cook in 1967 Barkston Ash, Thirsk |
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Dawn
Alison Farndale 1968 Married Antony J Hughes in
1988 Teesside, Northallerton |
Amanda
Jane Farndale 1971 Married Richard Haggath in 1995 Howden, Northallerton,
Yorkshire, Hartlepool, Cleveland |
Darren Mark Farndale 1974 Married Annmarie
Fawcett in 2000 Cleveland, Richmond,
Yorkshire |
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Farndale Family Tree on Ancestry, which links the
whole family together.
The Deeper Ancestry of the Wetherby 2
Line
The matrix below will transport descendants of the
Wetherby 2 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an
extract of the
Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Wetherby 2 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.
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A Time Machine to a different era of
geological time in the heart of our ancestral home |
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The Iron Age, Bronze
Age, Neolithic, and Mesolithic evidence of the people of the immediate
vicinity to Farndale |
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Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) The Roman Regional Capital of the lands
around Kirkdale |
A Roman Villa on palatial scale just south
of Kirkdale |
A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the
heart of our ancestral lands |
71 CE to 580 CE The lands which would
become the lands of Kirkdale and Chirchebi in Roman and Pagan times |
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 |
The Roman Capital of northern England where
Constantine was proclaimed Emperor |
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560 CE to 793 CE Kirkdale and the Chirchebi
Estate in the Anglo Saxon Period |
Kirkdale from its founding in about 685 CE
to the beginning of the Scandinavian period in about 800 CE |
Deirian and Northumbrian York, a political, cultural and educational
Hub on the European stage 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 |
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The powerful figure at the heart of the
aristocracy, who rebuilt Kirkdale and put our ancestral lands firmly onto the
national political stage |
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 |
The Scandinavian centre of northern England |
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 |
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Regime Change |
1066 to 1200 The People of the
Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest |
This history of the Cistercian monastery of
Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154 |
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Our Pioneer ancestors
who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places |
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 |
Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest |
A model which relies on extensive medieval evidence, to suggest the
most probable family tree of the earliest ancestors of the Farndales |
Thirteenth Century Farndale
Clearing the dale to
build our new home |
The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500,
to accompany the family story |
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 |
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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 Family of William
Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster |
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Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle The Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in
Cleveland |
A history of Kirkleatham
and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland |
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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 |
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 |
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The First Hub The story of the
Kilton Farndales, a family who dominated a village, since lost to time, over
two centuries |
The story of the lost village of Kilton and
its sylvan landscape 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 |
Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3
grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement
of our forebears |
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The context of the First World War to the
Farndale Story |
The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms
in the First World War |
The story of the
multiple generations of Farndales who made Great Ayton their home |
A visit to Great
Ayton where many members of the family lived, and a side trip to the James
Cook Monument |
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The Wetherby 2 Line |
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