The Whitby 2 Line

A Whitby family of a sailor who sailed with Captain Cook

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John Farndale sailed colliers including with James Cook and had a family of five.

The genealogical chart showing the Whitby 2 Line

			See Whitby 1 for possible lineage
			John Farndale 1711 to 28 March 1790 Married Hannah Christian A sailor on colliers. Who sailed with Captain Cook Whitby FAR00136
Sarah Farndale 19 March 1737 Married Richard Yeoman Sailor’s daughter of Whitby who married a joiner’s assistant Whitby FAR00150 The Yeoman Family	Thomas Farndale 30 September 1739 Whitby FAR00153	John Farndale 16 October 1743 Weaver, whose apprentice ran away in 1787 Married Phyllis Holdforth in 1774 Whitby, Loftus FAR00159		Hannah Farndale 27 December 1747 Whitby FAR00162	Robert Farndale 17 November 1752 to 2 June 1827 Master Mariner Buried at St Mary’s, Whitby Whitby FAR00169
					It is possible that he was the father of John Farndale (FAR00198) of the Whitby 4 Line, given the continued nautical history of that line but this is not the assumption for the Whitby 4 Line origins

Chronology of the Whitby 2 Line

22 May 1709	John Farndale, son of Thomas and Sarah Farndale, was baptised at Whitby.
1724	“At the entrance of a little nameless River, scarce indeed worth a name, stands Whitby, which, however, is an excellent harbour, and where they build very good ships for the Coal Trade, and many of them too, which makes the Town rich.” Daniel Defoe, A Tour through the whole island of Great Britain , 1778, but written from a tour to Whitby in 1724.
30 May 1736	John Farndale married Hannah Christian at Whitby Parish Church.
19 March 1737	Sarah Farndale, daughter of John and Hannah Farndale, was baptised in Whitby. Sarah married Richard Yeoman, a joiner’s assistant in 1760.
30 September 1739	Thomas Farndale, son of John and Hannah Farndale, was baptised in Whitby.
16 October 1743	John Farndale Junior, son of John and Hannah Farndale, was baptised in Whitby.
27 December 1747	Hannah Farndale, daughter of John and Hannah Farndale, was baptised in Whitby.
21 November 1751 to 7 January 1752	John Farndill sailed on the Three Brothers. This voyage was probably to Norway. On this voyage his captain was Richard Ellerton, with James Cook as mate. The Three Brothers was engaged as a transport conveying British troops from the Netherlands at the end of the War of Austrian Succession. Later she was used for trade in the Baltic. In 1750 her captain was John Walker. Cook served in the Freelove, the Three Brothers and the Mary before sailing in the Friendship. All the ships were owned by the Walker Brothers who were engaged in the coal trade. About the type of vessel Beaglehole says: ' the broad bottomed blunt bowed Whitby Collier was no sprite of the sea: she was a 'cat built' vessel or simply a 'cat'. The 'cat' was defined by the Dictionary of the Marine (William Faulkner, 1789) as "a ship employed in the coal trade, formed from the Norwegian model. It is distinguished by a narrow stern, projecting quarters, a deep waist, and by having no ornamental figure on the prow ... generally built remarkably strong, and carrying from four to six hundred tons".'
17 November 1752	Robert Farndale, son of John and Hannah Farndale, was baptised in Whitby.
30 March 1752 to 12 May 1753	John Farndill, Seaman, 45 years old, Whitby, served seven months 12 days, 30 March 1752 to 12 May 1753. Paid 8/4d muster dues. Prior to this he sailed with Robert Easton of London, but the name of ship is not given. No ship of James Peacock appears in Whitby records, but the name Peacock appears often as crew member in the muster rolls. In fact there was a Captain Peacock still living in Whitby in 1984.
10 November 1753	John Farndale was a seaman named in a list of 42 of the crew of ‘The Friendship of Whitby’ when James Cook was Mate. John would be about 42 years old in 1753.
1768 – 1771	James Cook’s first voyage.
8 August 1774	John Farndale Junior married Phyllis Holdforth in Loftus.
1772 – 1775	James Cook’s second voyage.
1776 – 1779	James Cook’s third voyage.
22 April 1776	Hampshire Chronicle, Ship News. Sailed from Portsmouth … Friendship, Farndale, for Whitehaven. This record appears to show John Farndale registering the out-sailing from Portsmouth, bound for Whitehaven in Cumbria.
26 March 1782	Hannah Farndale, wife of John Farndale, mariner, was buried at Whitby.
9 July 1787	Runaway on the 9th of July instant. John Sanderson, Apprentice to John Farndale, Weaver of Lofthouse, Yorkshire; he is stout made, a little pitted with the small pox, dark brown hair, and has a bald spot on the top of his head, occasioned by a fall; he had on when he went off, a blue jacket, a yellow striped waistcoat, leather breeches, and brown and white mottled stockings. If the said Apprentice will return to his Master, he will be kindly received; and any person or persons harbouring or employing him after this public notice, will be prosecuted with the utmost vigour, and any person giving notice of the said John Sanderson to the said John Farndale, will be handsomely rewarded. The Newcastle Courant, 28 July 1787
28 March 1790	John Farndale, sailor, aged 79, was buried at St Mary’s, Whitby.
2 June 1827	Robert Farndale, a master mariner, was buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard.
	Bram Stoker used St Mary's Church graveyard as the setting for a scene in his novel, Dracula: For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary's Church. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the Abbey coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and churchyard became gradually visible... It seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell. The graveyard is famous for its association with Dracula. There is a gravestone with a skull and crossbones, which it is sometimes claimed is the fictional Draculas grave, but in reality was probably the mark of a stonemason. And there is the tale of a suicide’s grave, where vampires supposedly have to reside: “He pointed to a stone at our feet which had been laid down as a slab, on which the seat was rested, close to the edge of the cliff. “Read the lies on that thruff-stone,” he said. The letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over and read, “Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, on July 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at Kettleness. This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son. `He was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.’ Really, Mr. Swales, I don’t see anything very funny in that!” She spoke her comment very gravely and somewhat severely. “Ye don’t see aught funny! Ha-ha! But that’s because ye don’t gawm the sorrowin’ mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk’d, a regular lamiter he was, an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on his life.”….I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she said, rising up, “Oh, why did you tell us of this? It is my favourite seat, and I cannot leave it, and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide.”