The Farndale Family Website
The Story of the Farndale
family
Farmers,
pioneers and soldiers
One Family’s Journey through
Two Thousand Years of British History
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Return to the Home 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 historical family and how the wider family is related |
Members of the historical family ordered by date
of birth |
Links to other pages with historical research
and related material |
The story of the Bakers of Highfields, the
Chapmans, and other related families |
Welcome to the website of the history of
the Farndale family
Martin
Farndale
The
Farndales of Tidkinhow
1910 Joseph
Farndale 1842 to 1901, Chief Constable of Birmingham The
Coat of Arms of General
Sir Martin Farndale KCB
The Pioneer of the Farndale Genealogy John, James, Alfred, William, George, Martin (inset) Dictum meum pactum (“His word is his bond”)
This
website tells the story of one family who travelled the path of their nation’s
history over two thousand years. We will meet individual members of the family
from the mid thirteenth century and trace backwards through the history of the
place from where they came, to the Roman and Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian ages. We
will meet poachers in Pickering Forest, inspirers of the Robin Hood legends,
medieval soldiers, merchants of fourteenth century York and the vicar of
fourteenth century Doncaster. We will meet mariners in Whitby, travel to the
Spanish Main, and encounter the smugglers of Old Saltburn. We will travel into
industrial Cleveland and through the heart of the dark satanic mills of the nineteenth
century. You will be introduced to two influential Victorian Chief Constables,
one of whom unearthed a dynamite conspiracy. We will follow our family
emigrations to Australia, Ontario, Newfoundland, Alberta, USA and New Zealand. We
will meet soldiers including many who served in the First and Second World
Wars.
The
website will guide you through a family story, but will also provide first hand
individual histories of folk who travelled through the national story. It will
tell the histories of many places, particularly in Yorkshire and Cleveland.
Three
Purposes of this Website
A Family
Story. For Farndales and Descendants of Farndales. The first purpose
of this web site is to make available genealogical and historical information
about the Farndale Family to descendants of the family, whether or not they
still adopt the surname.
A
Historical Journey. For Historians, Local Historians, and those with an
interest in Yorkshire and its History. This is also the story of one large
extended family and its footsteps through the history of Britain, focused on
its Yorkshire origins, over two millennia. It invites you to follow in the
footsteps of a related group of individual lives which tells the story of
Yorkshire and of Britain through time.
A
Genealogical Journey. For Genealogists. This is also a genealogical journey which
pushes the boundaries of genealogical research, to provide the whole story of a
single family, reaching into medieval records. It provides breadth and depth,
exploring how genealogy can tell the detailed story of a family, brought alive
by stories through time.
Three
Ways to access the information
The
Farndale Story. The
Farndale Story is a hub which will provide orientation and guide you
through the story of the family. This is the best way to absorb the story.
The
Family Branches. The detailed research is provided through individual pages
providing the detailed chronology of the Farndale family divided into 84 family lines,
each of which has its own Family Tree. This will help you to understand the
extent of the whole family.
The
Farndale Directory. The genealogical material was originally structured by Martin
Farndale using the Farndale Directory,
a list of each individual in chronological order by date of birth. This is
still available and is an easier way to find individual members of the historic
family if you know when they were born.
Related
Families and Records
The Baker
Story. The website also tells the story of the Baker Families of
Highfields, and of Fenton Culvert and Hasfield
Court. This includes material about the Hall Family of
Staffordshire, the Bellyse
of Staffordshire and the Dods
of Highfields.
The
Chapman Family. There is also a simpler genealogical exploration of the Chapman Family
of Walter Chapman.
Regimental
Records. The material collected by Martin Farndale also provides a
unique history of First
Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 1950 to 1971 and the early years of the Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst.
The
History of the Website
This
website is the culmination of work started by Martin
Farndale in 1956 and continued by his son
Richard since 2000.
General
Sir Martin Farndale KCB died in May 2000.
During his lifetime, he carried out extensive research into the Farndale family
history. This website has been compiled by his son, Richard Farndale and
continues this research which is made available to anyone who may be
interested. The site was first published on 6 November 2001, and after a few
years off line, was re-published from March 2019.
After
nearly 75 years of work over two generations, the genealogy is aspiring to be a
uniquely thorough genealogy of a non aristocratic British family, tracing the
family origins back to the Norman Conquest and beyond and comprising a
historical record of a single wider family. Work continues but the site already
provides significant depth and detail. What makes this record unique is the
thorough research by Martin and collation of a wide breadth of direct family
records and recollections, which can now be enhanced by twenty first century
search methods.
The Farndales descend from the folk who made up the
engine room of British history. For the bulk of such families, it is generally
very difficult to go back in time much beyond about 1500. However the Farndales
are privileged to have a locative name, which is rooted to a place. What is
more that place is a relatively small, rural valley in North Yorkshire, which
provides a uniqueness which helps research of early medieval records. The name
therefore provides a unique beacon which makes navigating the medieval sources
a possibility. This has made it possible to find significant records of
individuals back to the thirteenth century. The history of the place where we
know our ancestors made their home, enables us to take their story further back
in time to Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, and Roman times. We are extraordinarily
privileged to be able to see back that far.
Martin
Farndale’s historical research began: 1956
Site
First Published by Richard Farndale (at www.farndale.info): 6 November
2001
Site
Second Published by Richard Farndale (at www.farndalefamily.co.uk): 6
December 2014
Site
Third Published by Richard Farndale (at www.farndalefamily.co.uk): 16
March 2019
Site Last
Updated: 29 September 2024
Contact
Me
You can
contact me at rcfarndale@hotmail.com.
Please
pass on details of the site to Farndale relatives, those interested in
Yorkshire history, historians and genealogists. It is free to use, and intended
as a source of material for all those who can benefit from it.
The best
way to view this site
I suggest that you read the Farndale Story on a PC or tablet. If
you can read the story on a larger screen, that will be the best approach. An
iPhone will work, but the text may not always align properly.
The more detailed research pages are primarily intended for use
on a PC. This is because the site is intended for the provision of detailed
information, more suited to the larger format of a PC. However, it does work
quite well on a tablet, such as an ipad. On an iphone it may sometimes tend to
be distorted with text not always aligning, though you can generally read text.
Personal
Information
I do not
wish to record detailed information about living Farndales unless I know that
you are happy for me to do so. This site is about historic Farndales who are no
longer alive. As a rule I only record the most basic publicly available
information about living Farndales, primarily their year of birth. This is so
that anyone who wishes, can find themselves in the directory or in family
trees, and then use this site to explore their ancestry.
Where I
am aware of public information about living Farndales, on their own websites,
or public entries on the web which is available already, I have sometimes
included that information on personal pages of living Farndales.
If you
find your own entry on this website and would like me to include more
information about your part of the family, please let me know. Please don’t
provide me with any information you would not wish to be publicly available.
I think it is very unlikely that I have recorded any information on the site
which people would prefer to keep private, but if there is any information on
this site which you would prefer not to appear, please email me at rcfarndale@hotmail.com, and I will remove it.