|
|
Elias Farndale FAR00147
|
|
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.
Who were Elias’ ancestors?
I can’t find a
record of Elias’ birth, and have therefore been unable
to identify his parents. This means that the trail for this significant section
of the Farndale family goes cold with Elias. However I
think we can make some considered guesses about his ancestry and therefore the
ancestry of the Ampleforth
Farndales.
There was an
Alice Farnill, daughter of Richard Farnill of Hutton Conyers, near Ripon, who
was baptised on 27 February 1736. Since the spelling Farnill does appear in
this family later, there is a possibility that Alice was Elias’ sister and
Richard, his father. However by 1754 at his marriage,
he was clearly using the Farndale spelling, and the location and spelling of
this family doesn’t therefore seem to be the right path here.
Given that
Elias and his son clearly used the Farndale spelling by 1754, it seems very
probable that they were descendants of the individuals who left the dale of
Farndale from the mid thirteenth century and settled around York, Sheriff
Hutton and Doncaster where William
Farndale was the chaplain immediately after the Black Death and then parish
vicar from 1397 to 1403. The
written record is at least for the moment, cold, after 1403 until William Farndale, son
of Nicholas Farndale
and Agnes Farndale, married Margaret Atkinson at
St Mary of Magdalene, Campsall on 29 October 1564. This is about the time when
parish records enable us to gain a better direct record of individuals. That
family then emigrated north to the Cleveland area in or about 1567.
William’s son, George Farndale (1565
to 1606) was then the ancestor of a growing body of families that lived
entirely in the Cleveland area, north of the North York Moors for the following
centuries. Although there are some Farndells and
other spellings living in southern England (especially Sussex and London) in
the seventeenth century, it is very probable that these families were not
related to the Farndales. That being the case the only Farndales in the written
record from circa 1567 to 1754 when there is a record of Elias’ marriage to
Elizabeth Raper, lived in Cleveland, particularly Kirkleatham, Skelton, Loftus,
Moorsholm, Liverton, Kilton,
Brotton, and Whitby.
So, if the only Farndales on the written
record lived in Cleveland for two hundred years between 1567 to 1754, the most
likely explanation is that Elias was descended from one of the Cleveland
families. Perhaps it was he, or his direct family, who moved southward to the
Thirsk area before his own descendants settled around Yearsley/Ampleforth.
One possible theory is that he was a son
of William Farndale (FAR00125)
of the Brotton 1 Line. William
Farndale married Mary Butrick in 1724 and their son, George Farndale (FAR00144) was born in 1725 at
Stainton, southwest of Middlesbrough. That would reconcile with a window between
say 1727 to 1735 during which time Elias might have been born to that family.
This would make the most sense for the
origins of this significant section of the modern Farndale family. If we are correct then:
·
Elias Farndale was the son of William (b 1698) and Mary Farndale (FAR00125) of the Brotton 1 Line.
·
William
Farndale was the son of Isabell ffarndaill (FAR00112)(b1676), possibly
born out of marriage.
·
Isabell
Farndale was the daughter of Richard ffarndaill (FAR00092)(1650 to 1727), a yeoman of Brotton.
The trail then
goes cold again as we don’t have a definitive record of Richard’s parents. However
he was no doubt part of the family tracing back to George Farndale (1565
to 1606) and then William
Farndale, son of Nicholas
Farndale and Agnes Farndale, and thence to the
Farndale family who lived in or around Doncaster from the fourteenth to the
sixteenth centuries, possibly descending from William
Farndale, the Vicar of Doncaster. Thence that family must have descended
from the families of York, Sheriff
Hutton and Doncaster, who were in
turn the descendants of those who had first left the dale of Farndale in the thirteenth
century. They in turn were descendants of the serfs of Farndale and shared a
history associated with that place back to the Norman Conquest.
1733
I can’t directly trace his ancestry from
here. There is a possible link with FAR00184.
A previous review of Family Search suggests
that he was born in or about 1733. That is plausible if he married at the age
of 21.
1754
Elias Farndale of Thirsk married
Elizabeth Raper (1732 to 1776) of Topcliffe, at Thirsk, on 28 February 1754 (Thirsk PR). Elizabeth Raper was born in 1732 in
Topcliffe to William and Ann Raper. England,
Marriages, 1538–1973.
1755
Elias Farndale Junior (1755 to 1825), (FAR00184), son of Elias Farndale,
was baptised at Thirsk on 16 July 1755.
1777
Elizabeth Farndale died in 1777 at the
age of 45 and was buried in Brotherton (St Edward the Confessor), Yorkshire. Brotherton
is near Pontefract.
1783
Elias Farndale Senior died in 1783.