The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from John
Farndale
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Page of the Farndale Family Website |
The story of one
family’s journey through two thousand years of British History |
The 84 family lines
into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider
family is related |
Members of the
historical family ordered by date of birth |
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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.
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1711 to 28 March 1790 Married Hannah Christian A sailor on colliers. Who
sailed with Captain Cook Whitby |
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Sarah
Farndale 19 March 1737 Married Richard Yeoman Sailor’s daughter of Whitby
who married a joiner’s assistant Whitby |
Thomas
Farndale 30 September 1739 Whitby |
John
Farndale 16 October 1743 Weaver, whose apprentice
ran away in 1787 Married Phyllis Holdforth in 1774 Whitby, Loftus |
Hannah
Farndale 27 December 1747 Whitby |
Robert
Farndale 17 November 1752 to 2 June
1827 Master Mariner Buried at St Mary’s, Whitby Whitby |
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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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
The history of the village of Campsall north
of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century |
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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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1728
to 1779 The
association of James Cook with Cleveland, Whitby, Great Ayton, the Farndale ancestral lands,
and individuals of the Farndale Story |
1709 to 1790 John Farndale
served alongside James Cook, discoverer of the Southern Continent, on
colliers out of Whitby |
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 Third Hub The story of the Whitby Farndales who settled in
the bustling port of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries |
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 |
The place of Dracula inspiration where many Farndales
have been buried, provides a vantage point over Whitby, and its maritime
activity |
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The Whitby 2 Line |
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