Elias Farndale
23 April 1755 to 3 January 1831 (Buried)
FAR00184
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1755
Elias Farndale,
son of Elias and Elizabeth (nee Raper) Farndale (FAR00147), was baptised in the
Anglican Church at Thirsk on 16 July 1755 (Thirsk
Parish Records). His birth date was 23 April 1755.
1780
Elias Farndale
appears to have moved from Thirsk to Yearsley, about 20 km to the southwest of
Thirsk, sometime before 1785, say 1780. Perhaps he took work as a farm labourer
in the area.
1785
Elias Farnill
married Dorothy Heseltine (1757 to 1840), daughter of Geoff Heseltine on 14
June 1785 by banns at Ampleforth. England, Marriages, 1538–1973. He would have
been aged about 30.
1786
Ann
Farnill, daughter of Elias and Dorothy Farnill was baptised at Ampleforth on 18
June 1786.
1788
By 1788 they
lived at Windgate farm. This may be a reference to
Wildon Hill Farm, about 2km west of Coxwold. But from the evidence below, I
think Windgate Farm at Yearsley. There is a Windyridge Farm there.
Windridge
Farm
William Farnell (FAR00220A), son of Elias and
Dorothy Farnell was born at Windgate Hill Farm,
Coxwold on 21 September 1788.
William Farnell,
born Coxwold son of Elias Farndale and Dorothy Farndell (nee Heseltine – spelt Hessledine here) at Windgate
Hill, Coxwold, Farmer. Baptised 26 October 1788. Born on 21 October 1788. This
is probably a reference to Windyridge Farm at
Yearsley.
So was Elias a
farmer in Yearsley in 1788.
1790
Jethro Farnill (FAR00218), son of Elias and
Dorothy Farnill, was born on 12 December 1790 at Ampleforth, and baptised on 16 January 1791
(Ampleforth PR).
1793
Elias Farndale (FAR00224), son of Elisha and
Dorothy Farndale, was born at Ampleforth
on 7 February 1793 (Ampleforth PR). He was
baptised there on 3 March 1793.
1797
Richard Farnill, son
of Elias and Dorothy Farndale, was born on 16 August 1797 and baptised on 31
August 1797 in Yearsley.
1798
There is a Land Tax record against Elias Farndale made
pursuant to an Act of Parliament for granting an aid to His Majesty by a Land
Tax to be raised in Great Britain for the service of the year 1798. The sum of
£1 11s 6d was paid by Elias Farndale as the occupier, with a Mr Fairfax shown
as the proprietor. Given the proximity of Yearsley to Ampleforth and the date,
this was presumably Elias.
Some
time
later, in 1835, an Edward Ewbank was seeking to prove his entitlement to land
and he gave evidence that the Ewbank land extended to a boundary with the
ground of Elisha Farndale in Yearsley by a small stream.
Yorkshire
Gazette,18 April 1835: Mr Edward Ewbank, of Gilling, proved that his grandfather
formerly rented the Gilling Warren, and that his jurisdiction extended over the
lands now occupied by the appellants. He remembered a stone, having G on one
side and Y on the other, which was put down 26 years ago, in the place of an
older one, and which, along with some others cover formed the boundary between
the parishes. William Heseltine, 66 years of age, was born at Gilling, and had
lived there for all his life, his father had a warren under Lord Fairfax, on
whose estate there were three; he had received information from his father
respecting the boundaries; they were also separated from Elisha Farndale by
a small stream of water; his ground was in Yearsley, and the
witness’s in Gilling. John Trousdale, aged 68, had known Gilling 52 years last
Martinmas, and knew the enclosures of the appellants; he had cut turf there for
the rector of Gilling; had never heard of the perambulation 38 years since, by
the Yearsley people. John Rymer, who had known Gilling 39 years; and John
Clark, who had lived with the rector of Gilling, 53 years ago, corroborated the
account of the former witnesses...
1831
Elias Farndal died in or about 1831, and was buried on 3 January
1831 at Stillingfleet, south of York. Another record
also records Elias Farndale’s death at Stillngfleet,
but buried on 22 August 1830. He would have been 76. There is a suggestion that
he died on 24 March 1829.