The Whitby 1 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from John Farndale

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

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

John Farndale married Alce Peckock in 1661 in Whitby. He had four children. His descendants were sailors, carpenters, and seamstresses of Whitby. His grandson John sailed with James Cook on colliers around the Yorkshire coast, and his grandson Giles was pressganged into the Royal Navy and died at sea in the Caribbean.

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 Liverton 1 Line
					John Farndale 1637 Married Alice Peckock and Margarita Herd The first of the Whitby Farndales Whitby FAR00087
Margarita Farndale 6 September 1674 Whitby FAR00110		George Farndale 21 August 1676 to 20 December 1740 Whitby, Skelton FAR00113		Thomas Farndale 15 October 1683 to 25 February 1747 Married Sarah Perkins A carpenter of Whitby Whitby FAR00118		Henry Farndale 6 October 1689 Married Dinah Whitby, Kirby Misperton FAR00120
	John Farndale 22 May 1709 to 28 March 1790 Married Hannah Christian A sailor on colliers who sailed with Captain Cook Whitby FAR00136	Francis Farndale 30 September 1711 Married Margaret Spark and Margaret Gray A carpenter like his father, of Whitby, who had two families and triplets by his second marriage Whitby FAR00135	Giles Farndale 18 October 1713 to 9 May 1741 A press ganged sailor in the Caribbean, who served on HMS Experiment Whitby and the Caribbean FAR00137	Thomas Farndale 20 May 1716 Whitby FAR00138		Alice Farndell 14 April 1702 Kirby Misperton FAR00128
	The Whitby 2 Line
Sarah Farndale 11 March 1738 Whitby FAR00151	Giles Farndale 13 July 1740 Whitby FAR00154	Francis Farndale 13 July 1743 Whitby FAR00158	Spark Farndale 18 August 1745 Whitby FAR00160	Thomas Farndale 13 September 1747 Presumably died young given second Thomas Whitby FAR00161	Thomas Farndale 1751 to 23 March 1834 Married Jane Calvert Whitby Carpenter of Whitby FAR00182	Mary Farndale 3 September 1759 to early 1843 Whitby, Guisborough Triplet and Spinster of Guisborough FAR00179	Christian Farndale 3 September 1759 Whitby Triplet FAR00180		Frances Farndale 3 September 1759 Whitby Triplet who lived in Whitby, had three children out of wedlock and then married Then married Robert Heselton in 1791 FAR00181
Francis Farndale 5 February 1786 to 14 January 1789 Died aged 3 Whitby FAR00206	William Farndale 22 November 1787 to 7 April 1790 Died aged 2 Whitby FAR00209	Francis Farndale Or this could be the son of Thomas Farndale FAR00182 2 May 1789 FAR00206	Margaret Farndale 7 April 1790 Inhabitant of Flowergate, Whitby in her 50s Whitby (Flowergate) FAR00216	Phillis Farndale 24 September 1792 to 1792 Died at birth or thereabouts Loftus FAR00220	Mary Farndale 13 May 1793 Seamstress of Whitby Whitby (Flowergate) FAR00221	Thomas Farndale 13 May 1793 to December 1794 Died at age of one and so his second brother also called Thomas Whitby FAR00226	Thomas Farndale 8 July 1796 to 21 December 1832 Whitby FAR00231	Elizabeth Farndale 7 April 1798 Married James Husband Carpenter’s daughter of Skelton, whose husband was called Mr Husband Whitby, Skelton FAR00235
								William Farndale 13 May 1786 to 1786 Died at birth FAR00207	Margaret Farndale 16 July 1789 Died aged 1 FAR00213

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 Whitby 1 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Whitby 1 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Whitby 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 1 Line
	James Cook 1728 to 1779 The association of James Cook with Cleveland, Whitby, Great Ayton, the Farndale ancestral lands, and individuals of the Farndale Story	John Farndale 1709 to 1790 John Farndale served alongside James Cook, discoverer of the Southern Continent, on colliers out of Whitby	Giles Farndale 1713 to 1742 Press ganged into the Royal Navy, Giles served on HMS Experiment in the Spanish Main during the War of Jenkins Ear where he died and was buried at sea	The Whitby 1 Line	15 – The Mariners of Whitby The Third Hub The story of the Whitby Farndales who settled in the bustling port of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	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