The America 2 Line

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3543 N 4th Street, Milwaukie

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from George William Farndale, who settled in the United States having been born in Coatham

 

Home Page

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Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

The Farndale Story

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The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages

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The 84 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory

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Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

Themes

Links to other pages with historical research and related material

Related Family Stories

The story of the Bakers of Highfields, the Chapmans, and other related families

 

This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the America 2 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

The family tree is colour coded to show the flow of relationships between individuals. You can also follow the hyperlinks in brown text to link directly to other related family lines and the hyperlink in blue text to reach the webpage of each individual, where you can read about their lives in more detail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Coatham Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George William Farndale

31 July 1890 to August 1984

Married Frances Hilton in about 1915

He later married Rose Cunningham on 15 June 1921

Plumber and teacher (vocational education)

Coatham, Redcar, Prophetstown, Illinois; Clinton, Iowa; Milwaukie and Thiensville, Wisconsin

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Arthur William Farndale

26 April 1915 to 26 August 1996

Married Angeline

Machinist, heavy machinery

Clinton, Iowa, Prophetstown,  and later Milwaukie, Illinois

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Richard (Dick) William Farndale

6 August 1918 to 23 March 2007

A Mechanic who served in the Pacific in WW2

Married Marion L Johnson on 29 September 1946

Prophetstown, Illinois, Clinton, Iowa

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Rosemary Farndale

1927

Daughter of George and Rose nee Cunningham Farndale

She married HSN Buege

Milwaukie, Wisconsin

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Helen Patricia Farndale

1934 to 24 January 2022

Daughter of George and Rose nee Cunningham Farndale

She married Gene A Schulz in 1955

Milwaukie, Wisconsin, Lebanon, Tennessee

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Sarah Clarissa Farndale

1988

Married Randall Sougstad in 2010

Mason City, Iowa, Johnson County

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Patsy Farndale

b 1943

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Schulz Family

(Son – Anthony Schulz, daughter – Debbie - grandchildren – Terry (Tiffany) Schulz, Jessica (Steve) Beckett, Taylor (Zach) Reed, great grandchildren – Bryce Beckett, Blake Beckett, Brady Beckett, Blaine Beckett, Rylan Schulz, Ayla Schulz)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are subscribed to Ancestry you can also visit the Farndale Family Tree on Ancestry, which links the whole family together.

 

The Deeper Ancestry of the America 2 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the America 2 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the America 2 Line descendants. It will take you back to the earliest history of our ancestors and each box will transport you to a more detailed narrative to unlock your history.

 

 

 

Kirkdale Cave

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A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Primeval Swamp

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The Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, and Mesolithic evidence of the people of the immediate vicinity to Farndale

 

 

 

Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough)

The Roman Regional Capital of the lands around Kirkdale

Hovingham

A Roman Villa on palatial scale just south of Kirkdale

Beadlam

A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the heart of our ancestral lands

Roman Kirkdale

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71 CE to 580 CE

The lands which would become the lands of Kirkdale and Chirchebi in Roman and Pagan times

The Roman Arm Purse

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A Roman arm purse which can be seen in the British Museum in London today, found in about the second century CE by a cairn overlooking Farndale, which will transport you back 2,000 years

Eboracum (York)

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The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor

 

 

 

 

Anglo Saxon Kirkdale

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560 CE to 793 CE

Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Anglo Saxon Period

Anglo Saxon Kirkdale

Kirkdale from its founding in about 685 CE to the beginning of the Scandinavian period in about 800 CE

Eoforwic (York)

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Deirian and Northumbrian York, a political, cultural and educational Hub on the European stage

 

The Deira

The people who dominated our ancestral lands

Alcuin and the birth of modern education

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The world of Ecgbert and Aethelbert, successors to Bede, and their pupil Alcuin, who took York’s powerhouse of knowledge to the court of Charlemagne to pioneer the European educational system

 

 

Orm Gamalson

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The powerful figure at the heart of the aristocracy, who rebuilt Kirkdale and put our ancestral lands firmly onto the national political stage

Scandinavian Kirkdale

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793 CE to 1066

Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Scandinavian Period

Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian Kirkdale

Kirkdale in the Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian period from about 800 CE to 1066, with a brief summary of its history through to 1500

Jorvik (York)

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The Scandinavian centre of northern England

The Kirkdale Sundial

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A unique treasure whose secrets transport us into the world of the eleventh century upon which you can stare today, imagining direct ancestors who did the same a thousand years ago

 

 

Norman Domination

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Regime Change

Game of Thrones

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1066 to 1200

The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest

Rievaulx Abbey

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This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154

 

 

The Pathfinders

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Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places

Poachers of Pickering Forest

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Tales of a surprisingly large number of our forebears who were poachers in Pickering Forest. Their archery skills would foretell the legends of Robin Hood and the English army at Agincourt

Medieval Farming

Sheep and Shepherds by MINIATURIST, English

Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest

The First Family Tree

A model which relies on extensive medieval evidence, to suggest the most probable family tree of the earliest ancestors of the Farndales

The Cradle

Thirteenth Century Farndale

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Clearing the dale to build our new home

 

The Story of Farndale to 1500

The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500, to accompany the family story

Medieval Warfare

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Tales of archers and men at arms who fought with Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V and an observation post in the home of the Nevilles and Richard III from which to view the Wars of the Roses

Campsall and Barnsdale Forest

The history of the village of Campsall north of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century

The History of Doncaster to 1500

The History of pre industrial Doncaster from its Roman inception as Danum to the end of the sixteenth century

The Vicar of Doncaster

The Family of William Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster

The Kirkleatham Skelton Line

 

Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle

The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in Cleveland

Kirkleatham

A history of Kirkleatham and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland

 

 

 

 

The Liverton 2 Line

 

 

 

 

The Miners

The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland

 

Transition to the Industrial Revolution

John Farndale, my great x2 uncle, was a prolific writer who captured the essence of the late eighteenth century and its transition into the Industrial Revolution. The family’s history provides a direct pathway to experience these years of momentous change

Brotton Old Graveyard

Three generations of Kilton Farndales in one place.

A side trip to nearby Boosbeck and Skelton take you to the gravestones two later generations. Take in Wensley and you’ll find two more recent generations.

Seven generations of the family in one short drive

The Kilton 1 Line

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The Farmers of Kilton

The First Hub

The story of the Kilton Farndales, a family who dominated a village, since lost to time, over two centuries

Kilton, the Lost Village

The story of the lost village of Kilton and its sylvan landscape

Kilton

A journey around modern Kilton, of farms, a ruined castle and a small village of Kilton Thorpe to capture the essence of the two century home of Farndales

The Smugglers of Old Saltburn

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Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears

 

The Coatham Line

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28 – The Americans

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Scene 2 is the story of the  descendants of George William Farndale who settled in Illinois and Wisconsin.

The America 2 Line

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The Second World War soldiers, sailors and airmen

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The story of the Farndales who took up arms in the Second World War

The Second World War Soldiers

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The context of the Second World War