The Bishop Wilton Line

The Lane Fox estate of Bramham Park where James Farndale worked

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from William and Margaret Farndale

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

William Farndale was the eldest son of Elias Farndale of Windgate Farm, Coxwold. He and his brother Elias (and in time the family of his other brother, Jethro) moved east of York to the area around Bishop Wilton, Malton and Huttons Ambo.

The family then moved west to the Tadcaster area and became associated with the villages of Aberford and Bramham (now adjacent to the A1) and Barwick in Elmet. Many of the family were drawn to the worsted industry in Bradford and further west to Lancashire.

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 Ampleforth 1 Line William Farndale 21 October 1788 to 1871 Married Margaret Ampleforth, Coxwold, Bishop Wilton, Pocklington Agricultural labourer FAR00220A

William Farndale 1 August 1822 to 25 March 1899 Bishop Wilton, Malton, Tadcaster Married Mary (Ann, Esther?) Leppington before 1846 Labourer and shepherd FAR00281

Elizabeth Farndale 27 October 1826 to 15 December 1913 Wife of a farm worker with a large family near Pocklington Married Daniel Hague Bishop Wilton, Pocklington, Kilnwick Percy, Thwing, Millington FAR00294

Sarah Farndale 23 June 1829 to 1862? A servant Married John Simpson on 5 February 1851 Bishop Wilton, Pocklington, Kirby Underdale FAR00304

Robert Farndale 17 June 1832 to 21 December 1877 Gardener of Wandsworth, London Bishop Wilton, Putney, Wandsworth FAR00318

[Leonard Farndale] 2 December 1834 Bishop Wilton Twin However lack of records suggest there may have been no Leonard Farndale FAR00329

[Elias Farndale] Born 2 December 1834 Bishop Wilton Twin However lack of records suggest there may have been no Elias Farndale FAR00330

Ann Farndale 1846 to 1886 Married Richard Nutton Pocklington, Aberford, Leeds, Tadcaster FAR00369

John Farndale (Farnell) 23 April 1849 to 18 August 1893 Married Catherine (Kate) A worsted spinner of Bishop Wilton who died aged 43 as the result of an accident Bishop Wilton, Bramham Park FAR00379A

Thomas Farndale 1852 to 1929 Bishop Wilton, Tadcaster, Hunslet Married Mary Hannah Weighill in 1880 Shepherd, cattleman, farm labourer FAR00394

Mark Farndale 1854 to 1944 Pocklington, Bishop Wilton, Barwick in Elmet, Tadcaster, Selby Married Hannah Varley in 1874 Gasman FAR00408

Margaret Farndale 1861 to 1927 Lodgekeeper Aberford FAR00445A

George Farndale 17 September 1864 to 1940 Aberford, Tadcaster, Ireland (Molenan), Wetherby, Bramham cum Oglethorpe A farm labourer Married Minnie in Ireland in about 1900 FAR00453A

John W Farndale 19 December 1875 to 26 November 1963 Married Annie Thomson in 1898 and Jane Wade in 1911 A horseman and later a gardener Bickerton, Swillngton, Tadcaster, Aberford, Wetherby, Walton in Ainsty FAR00545

George Farndale 30 September 1877 to 15 May 1954 Agricultural labourer Married Mary Agnes Graham in 1906 Bickerton, Aberford, Tadcaster, Clayton Le Moors, Blackburn, Great Harwood, Saxton FAR00557

Mary Farndale 1882 to 1962 Married William Kendrew, a quarryman, on 10 February 1904 Saxton, Aberford FAR00586A

Thomas Farndale 1885 to ? Horseman on farm Saxton FAR00601B

Alfred (Fred) Leperton Farndale 1885 to 13 July 1901 Pony driver underground pit Died aged 16 Saxton, Aberford FAR00605

Alice Farndale 5 September 1889 to 1977 Saxton, Aberford, Blackburn, Burnley and Pendle, Lanchashire FAR00633A

? Minnie Farndale 13 February 1892 to 1946 FAR00650

Robert Farndale 1850 Married Caroline Lester 16 August 1869 Carpenter of Putney Wandsworth, Putney FAR00362

John Farndale 23 April 1849 to 8 July 1906 Married Emily Eliza Greenwood Possible military service with the Grenadier Guards 1868 to 1872 Barton le Street, Appleton le Street, Hackney, Bethnal Green FAR00379 Error – move to possible son of William Farndale FAR00258, Ampleforth 1

Ethel Farndale 23 April 1884 to 1969 Dressmaker Manston, Barwick, Hunslet, Leeds FAR00590

George Weighill Farndale 1886 to 3 May 1917 Warehouseman. An infantryman in the first world war who was killed in action at Arras during the Third Battle of the Scarpe FAR00617

(William) James Farndale 9 September 1900 to 1953 Garden labourer and later an estate gardener on the Bramham Estate of the Lane Fox family Private in the West Yorkshire Regiment, enlisted in October 1918 immediately on becoming of age Born in Ireland (Londonderry), Bramham Married Annie Thompson in 1933 FAR00704B

Margaret Annie Farndale 10 September 1901 to ? Housekeeper Marred Ernest W Smith in 1934 Bramham, Wetherby FAR00709

The Wetherby Line

Gladys Farndale 4 December 1907 to 22 January 1996 A cotton weaver by age of 13. A domestic servant. Clayton Le Moor, Blackburn FAR00747

Annie Farndale 14 November 1909 to ? Married Walter Harrison in 1934 Clayton Le Moors, Blackburn, Great Harwood FAR00760

Annie Farndale 1870 to 1948 Domestic Cook Married Frederick C Bennett in 1929 Turnham Green, Putney FAR00503

Edith Farndale 12 October 1872 to 1960 Domestic Housemaid Married Harvey or Harry James Stilwell in 1899 Putney FAR00521A

Theresa Farndale 1877 to 26 September 1922 Domestic Cook Putney FAR00549

Emily Anne Farndale 1876 to 1877 Bethnal Green FAR00544

John Robert (“Jack”) Farndale 16 February 1879 to 22 March 1958 Married Annie Graham in 1906. Customs and Excise Officer Hackney, Bethnal Green, Canterbury, Poole, Thanet FAR00561

Horace Ernest Farndale 1882 to 4 April 1921 Post Office Telegraphist Married Rosalie Mole in 1907 Bethnal Green, Hackney, Ealing FAR00584

Annie Eliza Farndale 1872 to 1938 Married Francis (Frank) Robinson on 13 December 1902 Clayton near Bradford then emigrated to Massachusetts Wool worker FAR00513A

William Farndale 5 November 1874 to 1933 Bradford, Clayton, Bramham Married Martha Mothersdale on 18 August 1900 Plumbing business partner FAR00530

John Farndale (Farnell) 18 September 1875 to after 1891 Worsted spinner Clayton, Bradford FAR00545A (see record for Gladys, Kathleen, Lily, Gladwin, George Arthur, Frank, Hannah Mary, Doris and Maggie Farnell)

James Arthur Farndale 15 December 1877 to 1 March 1952 Worsted drawing foreman Married Florence Edith Greenwood in 1905 Bradford, Baildon, Clayton FAR00555

Tom Farndale 17 September 1883 (or 7 August 1881) to 15 November 1962 Married Alice Wilkinson in 1911 Machine Moulder Burnley, Nelson, Padiham FAR00573

Mary Farndale 22 September 1883 to 6 September 1972 Clayton, Bradford FAR00596A

Maggie Farndale 1886 to after 1911 Mill hand West Clayton (west of Bradford) FAR00608A

Edith Annie Farndale 9 October 1901 to 1989 Bookkeeper/clerk at Bradford Infant’s clinic and later involved in maternity and child welfare Lidget Green, Bradford FAR00707

May Farndale 1 May 1906 to 1979 Bookkeeper/clerk at Bradford Infant’s clinic Married Harold Crowther in 1932 Lidget Green, Bradford FAR00731

William Farndale 24 May 1915 to 18 June 1978 Plumber Married Joan M Georgeson in 1940 Bradford FAR00818

Wilfred Farndale 13 September 1910 to 26 January 1965 Married Kathleen Dawson in 1935 Sanitary Meat Inspector and cricketer North Brierley, Wharfedale, Bradford, Worth Valley FAR00766

Minnie Farndale 19 June 1911 to 17 August 1994 Cotton Weaver Padiham, Burnley FAR00773

Annie Farndale 1914 to 1916 Died aged 2 Burnley FAR00801

Hilda Farndale 12 September 1915 to August 1985 Married John Lord in 1936 Padiham, Burnley, Nelson FAR00817

The Bradford 2 Line

Frank Farndale 1902 to 1976 Paddington

Rosalie Hessie Farndale 23 July 1908 to 5 April 1995 Married Arthur A Carder probably in 1934 (even though records suggest 1964) Bookkeeper and cashier for husband’s butcher business Brentford, West Ealing, Barnstead, Bournemouth, Norwich FAR00748

Kathleen Alice Farndale 28 January 1913 to 2000 Married Frederick M Maine in 1932 Ealing, Thanet, Poole, Bournemouth FAR00791

John Horace Thomas Farndale 21 July 1919 to 11 September 2018 Married Mildred Croft in 1942 and Rose Bessey in 1949 Served in the RAF Rochford, Essex, Norwich FAR00856

Patricia R Farndale 1951 Abyad, Egypt (British Armed Forces) Married David Butcher in 1975 FAR01046

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 Bishop Wilton Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Bishop Wilton Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Bishop Wilton 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 A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home
			The Primeval Swamp 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 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 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) The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor
			Anglo Saxon Kirkdale 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) 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 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 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 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) The Scandinavian centre of northern England	The Kirkdale Sundial 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 Regime Change	Game of Thrones 1066 to 1200 The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest	Rievaulx Abbey This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154
The Pathfinders Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places	Poachers of Pickering Forest 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 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 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 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 1 Line
			The Brotton 1 Line
The First World War Soldiers The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War The First World War The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story	The Second World War soldiers, sailors and airmen The story of the Farndales who took up arms in the Second World War The Second World War Soldiers The context of the Second World War	Transition to the Industrial Revolution The family’s history provides a direct pathway to experience these years of momentous change	The Ampleforth 1 Line	Return to the Vale of York The Fourth Hub The Ampleforth Farndales who returned south of the North York Moors to Yearsley near Ampleforth	Yearsley The home from the early eighteenth century of a large section of our family
			The Bishop Wilton Line	Wilfred Farndale 1910 to 1965 Wilfred was brought up in the community of Sir Titus Salt’s Saltaire Mills. He was an accomplished Cricketer who played with some Yorkshire greats and a social influencer in his work as a Sanitary Officer