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The Whitby 2 Line
A Whitby family of a sailor who sailed with Captain Cook
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The
Story of the Whitby 2 Line
John
Farndale sailed colliers including with James Cook and had a family of five.
The genealogical chart showing the Whitby 2 Line
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John Farndale 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 The Yeoman Family |
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Thomas Farndale 30 September 1739 Whitby |
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John Farndale 16 October 1743 Weaver, whose apprentice ran away in 1787 Married Phyllis Holdforth in 1774 Whitby, Loftus |
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Hannah Farndale 27 December 1747 Whitby |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.” |