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Direct ancestor of most Farndales who married in the church reputed to be the same church where Robin Hood and Maid Marion were married |
William Farndale (Farndaile) 1539? to 24 January 1606 The Doncaster Kirkleatham Skelton Line
FAR00063
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William is in the direct lineage which I think many Farndales today will be able to follow back to Nicholas |
Headlines of William Farndale’s life are
in brown.
Dates are in red.
Hyperlinks to other pages are in dark blue.
References and citations are in turquoise.
Context and local history are in purple.
The
evidence explored on the page of William’s father, Nicolas, explains why this
is probably correct. If we are right that this is the same William Farndale who
died on 24 January 1606 in Skelton, then this explains his move from the
Doncaster area to Skelton area.
1539
If William Farndell married at Campsall, north of Doncaster in 1564, say he was aged 25 when
he married, then he was born about 1539 probably in the Doncaster area, perhaps in or
around Campsall.
He could have been the son of Nicholas
Farndale (FAR00059)
and Agnes Farndale (FAR00060).
Have a look now at Nicholas Farndale’s page, to understand the logic which
supports this.
If that is right then his father, Nicholas, would have been 27 when he was born and his mother, Agnes, 23.
1564
William Farndell married Margaret Atkinson at Doncaster Campsall on 29 October 1564.
In the transcripts for St Mary Magdalene
for this marriage, there is only one marriage on 29 October 1564 between a
William “Starndell” and a Margaret Atkinson. No further information is given in the
transcript and only the two names are given.
However the name as written could be either Starndell or Farndell, so the discrepancy is likely to rest
with the transcriber. This entry is believed to record the marriage between
William Farndale and Margaret Atkinson:
The date appears in the line above the
blue cross and then: Willemo ffarndell et magreta atkinson, nup (married)
I have seen a suggestion by another researcher
of a marriage of William to Margaret Kyddall who was
born at Skelton in 1539 and who was the daughter of William Kyddall
(1510 to 1549) and Margaret Dalyson (1510 to 1593). We could explore this
further, but I am working on the basis that this is the relevant William who
married Margaret Atkinson in Campsall.
Research Notes - CAMPSALL, ST MARY
MAGDALENE PARISH RECORDS - Archive Collection For more information, email the
repository Advice on accessing these materials Cite this description Bookmark:
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb197-p15
XML This material is held at Doncaster
Archives Reference GB 197 P15 Dates of Creation 1563-1992 Name of Creator
Church of England, St Mary Magdalene's Parish, Campsall Language of Material
English Physical Description 58 boxes 0.928 cubic metres Scope and Content
Comprising: Registration: Registers of
Baptisms 1563-1979, Registers of Marriages 1564-1990, Registers of Burials
1563-1974, Registers of Banns 1981-1995, Registers of Services 1902-1992;
Incumbent 1736-1939; churchwardens: terriers (5) 1770-1912, other records
1832-1988 and deeds for various places unrelated to the parish 1682-1795; PCC
minutes 1920-1994 and accounts 1937-1947; schools (miscellaneous) 1861-1940;
other records 1756-1983 including returns for the 1831 census (statistics
only); Tithe approtionment and map for Sutton 1838;
altered apportionments, Sutton and Owston 1852; Administrative / Biographical
History - Parts of this parish were transferred to the parishes of Askern and
Fenwick.
From early times the parish of Campsall
consisted of six townships or hamlets; Campsall,
Askern, Fenwick, Moss, Norton and Sutton. At the time of the Domesday survey in
1086, the area was in the possession of Ilbert de Lacy, the founder of
Pontefract Castle. The fact that Domesday does not mention a church here is no
proof that such did not exist, since cases are to be found where there is
similarly no such reference. Yet the existing church contains work of
pre-Conquest date; there may have been merely a chapel attached to the manor
without parochial rights. The earliest existing work in the church is of
twelfth century date.
In the reign of Edward
I Henry Lacy obtained a royal charter for a market at Campsall, which would
suggest that it was a place of some consequence by that time. By 1288 the
benefice was in the Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV
(1291) and had an annual value of £66 13s. 4d. By a curious arrangement, the
chapel of St. Clement in Pontefract Castle had a share in tithe. The probable
explanation of this anomaly is the fact that Ilbert de Lacy and his successors
held both estates and adopted this method of supporting the chapel which was an
important foundation in its own right. In 1336 there
was a composition under the sanction of the Archbishop of York in the name of
Thomas de Bracton, Rector of Campsall, and William de
Mudene, Prebendary of the chapel, by which one hundred shillings was to be paid
by the Rector in lieu of the tithe.
A great change took place in 1481 when
Edward IV granted the rectory of Campsall to the Priory of Wallingwells
in Nottinghamshire, a small house of Benedictine nuns. In the following year
Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of York, appropriated it to this purpose and
decreed that henceforth the benefice should be served by a Vicar, and gave the
appointment to Cambridge University. After the dissolution of the monasteries
under Henry VIII the rectorial tithes passed into lay
hands.
The township account book listed at
P15/6/1/1 was added to this collection in September 2010. Doncaster Archives
purchased this item from an antiquarian bookseller in August 2010.
Arrangement The collection is divided
into eleven series as follows: P15/1: Registration, Church Services, and
Worship P15/2: Incumbent P15/3: Churchwardens P15/4: Vestry and Parochial
Church Council P15/5: Auxiliary Organisations P15/6: Township P15/7: Charities
and Trusts
P15/8: Schools P15/9: Statutory Deposits
P15/10: Miscellaneous Records P15/11: Other Records [Deeds etc] Access
Information Open Private (Church of England) Access will be granted to any
accredited member of Doncaster Libraries Related Material Also available: Index : Bapt 1563-1850 Marr 1563-1837 Bur 1563-1871
The parish library, a collection of 126 volumes
from the period 1573 to 1719 now deposited at Doncaster Archives, is the
subject of M Gallico, 'A Catalogue of the Library of
Campsall Church', (unpublished MA dissertation, University of Sheffield, 1980).
A copy is available in the departmental library of Doncaster Archives.
Baptisms: 1563-1979
Marriages: 1564-1990
Burials: 1563-1974
Doncaster Archives - https://www2.calmview.co.uk/Doncaster/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=P15&pos=9
– Collection Ref No P15 - Title CAMPSALL, ST MARY MAGDALENE PARISH
RECORDS - Description Comprising:
Registration: Registers of Baptisms 1563-1979, Registers
of Marriages 1564-1990, Registers of Burials 1563-1974, Registers of Banns
1981-1995, Registers of Services 1902-1992; Incumbent 1736-1939; churchwardens:
terriers (5) 1770-1912, other records 1832-1988 and deeds for various places
unrelated to the parish 1682-1795; PCC minutes 1920-1994 and accounts
1937-1947; schools (miscellaneous) 1861-1940; other records 1756-1983 including
returns for the 1831 census (statistics only); Tithe approtionment
and map for Sutton 1838; altered apportionments, Sutton and Owston 1852
Campsall, Doncaster, 1539 to 1564
If the logic applied is correct, then
William Farndale lived around Doncaster until about 1564.
As he married at Campsall, that may be
where they lived.
Campsall is a village seven miles north-west
of Doncaster. Before the industrial revolution, the area was dominated by the
inaccessible and waterlogged marshes of the Humberhead
Levels. To the west was the Barnsdale Forest, an area associated with the
legend of Robin Hood.
Following the departure of the Romans,
who had a small fort two miles to the west which guarded the crossing of the
River Skell by the Great North Road, an early wooden Saxon church was
established at Campsall. Nothing remains of this church today.
After the Conquest a
large Norman church was built out of local stone.
The local population were engaged with
agricultural and rural employment during the medieval period.
During this time Campsall was rapidly growing in importance
and was granted a Royal Charter in 1294 entitling it to a weekly
Thursday market and an annual four-day fair. These had
ceased by 1627, but that is beyond the time we are interested in. Also just in
passing, and of no interest to the genealogy, a public house, the Ring of Bells
(now called the Old Bells) was opened near the church and this pub is believed
to be one of the oldest in Yorkshire.
William and Margaret married at St. Mary
Magdalene's church, Campsall.
May2006.jpg)
The historian John Paul Davis wrote of a
connection between Robin Hood and the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene at
Campsall. The fifteenth century ballad entitled, A Gest of Robyn Hode suggests that Robin Hood built a chapel
in Barnsdale that
he dedicated to Mary Magdalene:
‘I
made a chapel in Bernysdale,
That seemly is to se,
It is of Mary Magdaleyne
And thereto wolde I be’.
Davis surmised that there is only one
church dedicated to Mary Magdalene within what might reasonably be considered
to have been the medieval forest of Barnsdale, being the church at Campsall.
The church was built in the late eleventh century by Robert de Lacy, 2nd
Baron of Pontefract.
A local legend suggests that Robin Hood
and Maid Marion were married at the church of Saint Mary Magdalene, at
Campsall.
So if that is right, then one of the
ancestors of modern Farndales was married in 1564 in the same church as Robin
Hood. Although largely fictitious, the rough dates when Robin Hood was supposed
to have lived were around 1160. The marriage to Maid Marion was supposed to
have been shortly after Richard I’s pardon. Robin Hood’s death is given to be
18 November 1247.
See notes on
connections between our Farndale ancestors and the legends of Robin Hood.
Before we stray too much into the world
of fiction, we can perhaps say that William and Margaret married in the same
church as reputed to have been Robin Hood’s wedding venue, about three hundred
years later.
1564 to 1567
Between 1564 and 1567, the whole family appears to have moved north
of the North York Moors, to Kirkleatham. Between 1564 and 1567, the family moved to the
Skelton/Kirkleatham area. One possibility is that Agnes came from there.
Another, perhaps more likely, is that William’s sister Jean married Richard
Fairly, a family of some pedigree from Kirkleatham. For whatever reason, they
seem to have moved from the Doncaster area to Kirkleatham.
1567 to 1573
They then lived in Kirkleatham, which
was perhaps more the Fairly home than the Farndale home before then.
William’s three children were born in
Kirkleatham between 1568 and 1573.
William and Margaret’s family might have
been:
Jane Farndale,( FAR00066) (1568 to 1596)
George Farndale, (FAR00067) born about
1570?
Eln (Eleanor?) Farndale, (FAR00068) born about 1573?
(Kirkleatham PR and
IGI) [check if birth records or surmised from marriages]
Skelton
They may have moved to Skelton, which is only five miles away, at
some stage. Or maybe they continued to live in Kirkleatham, and William might
have been buried at St John’s church in the nearby Skelton.
1572
William’s father, Nicholas died in
Kirkleatham in 1572.
1573
Margaret [Atkinson?] died in 1573 at
Skelton aged 34, after 9 years of marriage. So the
fact that Margaret died in Skelton is further evidence to support the logic
explained on Nicholas Farndale’s page.
1586
William’s mother Agnes died in
Kirkleatham in 1586.
1606
William Farndale died on 24 January 1606, aged 67. He was buried on 25 January 1606 at St John the Batist Church in Skelton.
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