The Whitby 2 Line

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

 

Home Page

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Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

The Farndale Story

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The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages

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The 84 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory

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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 2 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

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

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 1 Line

Still to be further checked

 

 

 

 

 

John Farndale

1711 to 28 March 1790

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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

 

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

 

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 2 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Whitby 2 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Whitby 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.

 

 

 

 

 

Kirkdale Cave

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A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Primeval Swamp

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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

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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

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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)

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The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor

 

 

 

 

 

Anglo Saxon Kirkdale

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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)

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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

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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

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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

Scandinavian Kirkdale

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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)

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The Scandinavian centre of northern England

The Kirkdale Sundial

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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

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Regime Change

Game of Thrones

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1066 to 1200

The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest

Rievaulx Abbey

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This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154

 

 

The Pathfinders

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Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places

 

Poachers of Pickering Forest

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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

Sheep and Shepherds by MINIATURIST, English

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

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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

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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

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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

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John Farndale served alongside James Cook, discoverer of the Southern Continent, on colliers out of Whitby

 

Giles Farndale

1713 to 1742

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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

The Mariners of Whitby

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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

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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

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The place of Dracula inspiration where many Farndales have been buried, provides a vantage point over Whitby, and its maritime activity

 

 

 

 

The Whitby 2 Line