The Brotton 3 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from John Farndale and Jane Pybus

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This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Brotton 3 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

John Farndale, born in 1772, was the father of 8. The family lived at Kilton and some moved to the coast and Marske. The family also founded the Stockton 1 Line, the Stockton 2 Line and the Loftus 2 Line.

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 Loftus 1 Line
			John Farndale 27 October 1772 to 1842 Married Jane Pybus at Skelton on 23 December 1794 Loftus, Brotton, Whitby FAR00196
John Farndale 27 March 1796 to October 1868 Married Elizabeth Wallace Stockton, Brotton, Kildate, Barnby, Roxby, Whitby, Kirkleatham FAR00230	Jane Farndale 2 December 1798 Brotton FAR00239	William Farndale 9 August 1801 to 23 February 1876 Married Jane Scott Agricultural labourer, a farmer of 35 acres and later a cartman Note the tragedy of his three daughters who died young, each leaving their own young children with their widowed mother Brotton, Saltburn, Kilton, Whitby, Marske FAR00243	Hannah Farndale 7 April 1805 to December 1866 Married Francis Cooper and later George Ventress Skelton, Brotton FAR00250	George Farndale 15 March 1807 to 17 November 1847 Married Ann Child (nee Ventress – perhaps the sister of George who married his sister Hannah) A farmer in Brotton who died aged 40. His widow continued to run the farm of 60 acres and three employees after he died Kilton, Brotton FAR00252	Mary Farndale 2 to 3 July 1811 An infant girl who died at birth Brotton FAR00253	Robert Farndale 27 February 1814 to 2 February 1866 Master Grocer of Stockton Stockton, Brotton FAR00254	Mary Ann Farndale 27 February 1814 to 1876 Married John Porritt, a wheelwright on 4 February 1843 Brotton, Skelton FAR00255
The Stockton 1 Line						The Stockton 2 Line
	Mary Jane Farndale 11 March 1842 to 2 November 1871 Mary married a joiner in 1865, but lived with her parents and 2 year old daughter in 1871 in Marske, but died the same year Married Henry Appleby, a joiner, on 22 July 1865 Brotton, Guisborough, Marske FAR00351	Hannah Farndale 10 December 1843 to 19 April 1875 Hannah married in 1841, she lived with her parents in 1871, and died in 1875 leaving her widowed husband and young daughters who continued to live with her mother Married Richard Agar in 1868 Brotton, Guisborough, Marske FAR00360	Sarah Ann Farndale 11 September 1846 to 14 August 1871 Hannah was a house servant by 14, who left a widower and young two year old daughter when she died aged 24 Married John Purdy in 1866 Brotton, Marske FAR00368	William George Farndale William married in 1902 at the age of 50. He was a butcher in Marske in 1911, living alone as a lodger. He died at the age of 57 in the workhouse in Guisborough in 1915 Married possibly in 1892, and then on 7 December 1902 to Elizabeth Buckenham Brotton, Guisborough, Marske 22 June 1856 to 15 February 1915 FAR00421	George Farndale 8 March 1843 to 1 August 1917 Married Hannah Mary nee Walker Miller and then Ironstone miner of Loftus, later joiner and picture framer in Middlesbrough (his father in law, William Walker, was manager of Ormesby mines) Loftus, Brotton, Middlesbrough FAR00350C
	(Her daughter was Eva Appleby, born 1869)	(Her Daughters were Fenna Agar, born 1871 and Sarah Agar, born 1874)	(Her daughter was Lily Purdy, born 1869)
					George Farndale 8 March 1843 to September 1917 Married Hannah Mary nee Walker Miller and then Ironstone miner of Loftus, later joiner and picture framer in Middlesbrough (his father in law, William Walker, was manager of Ormesby mines) Loftus, Brotton, Middlesbrough FAR00350C
		William George Farndale 20 September 1868 to ? Married Annie Emma Bell on 16 April 1892 and later Rose Cunningham on 15 June 1921 Clerk of Middlesbrough who went to USA in 1907 as an accountant and settled in California No family Guisborough, Loftus, Liverton, Middlesborough, Riverside California FAR00492	Sarah Annie Farndale 22 August 1870 to 22 August 1945 Married Arthur Wilks on 26 May 1897 Loftus, Liverton, Guisborough, Middlesbrough, Great Ayton, Sheffield FAR00505	Arthur Edwin Farndale 22 May 1875 to December 1962 Married Mary Ann (Mary Annie) Burns on 109 August 1896 and Elizabeth Roberta Southern on 23 December 1933 Clerk at the Battersby Rail Junction with the North Eastern Railway Company. Middlesbrough, Battersby, Teesdale, Robin Hood's Bay, Thirsk, Liverton, Loftus FAR00532	Edith Emily Farndale 15 June 1877 to 1954 Married John George Smith in 1904 A milliner for a while Middlesbrough, Guisborough, East Thickley FAR00546
			Possibly Sarah’s children
Ethel Farndale 1893 to 2 May 1895 Died aged 2 Buried at St Leonard, Loftus FAR00658	Lily Farndale 1895 to 4 October 1895 Died aged 17 days Buried at St Leonard’s, Loftus FAR00673	Polly Farndale 1896 to 6 January 1899 Died aged 2 Buried at Loftus cemetery FAR00676	Frank Farndale 12 January to 14 September 1898 Died aged 8 months. Buried at St Leonard, Loftus FAR00687	Alice Maud(e) Farndale 16 August 1899 to ? No other record so presumably she also died an infant FAR00696
George William Farndale 12 February 1897 to 21 August 1953 Married Doris May Earnshaw on 26 December 1921 Clerk, shipping clerk and financial accountant and clerk with the Army Pay Corps (and Army Service Corps) during WW1 Middlesbrough, Maidstone, Croydon, Lambeth, Liverpool, Great Ayton FAR00678		Arthur Edwin Burns Farndale 10 October 1901 to 30 August 1952 Married Jane E (Ella Jane) Foley in 1932 Finance Company Assistant Manager and Accountant in Wiltshire Middlesbrough, Hendon, Marlborough, Harrow FAR00706	Alfred Farndale 18 June 1903 to 1990 Married Agnes Biggins in 1928 An engine cleaner with the North Eastern Railway Company and Railway Engine Firemen at Middlesbrough Liverton, Middlesbrough, Cleveland FAR00721	Dorothy Farndale 25 December 1909 to 1960 Married Charles Wood in 1939 Liverton, Middlesbrough FAR00762		Bernard Farndale 18 March 1912 to 30 August 1944 Married Glenys Muriel P Picton (probably incorrectly recorded Muriel Swales) in 1932 RAF Sergeant who was killed in action over Denmark, 30 Aug 1944. Secretly buried by the local Danish people who ignored the orders of the Wehrmacht. Middlesbrough, Fulham FAR00783	Albert Farndale 22 December 1914 to 1986 Married Beryl F Cattermole in 1939 Airman and Corporal in RAF Middlesborough, Mitcham, Surrey, Chichester FAR00820
		Go under
Brenda Farndale 1925 to 1997 Married Reginald Pegg in 1945 and Kenneth Willshaw in 1977 Maidstone, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent FAR00894	Patricia Farndale 20 February 1927 to 18 March 1995 Married Allen Gordon Smith in 1949 Maidstone, Norwich, Hereford, Surrey, Birmingham FAR00904	Sheila Margaret Farndale 1928 to 20 September 2007 Maidstone, Staffordshire, Harrogate, Manchester FAR00910	George Brian Farndale 1930 to 1930 Died aged 0 Maidstone, Croydon FAR00913	John Alan Farndale 18 February 1932 to 10 September 2012 Married Ardith Fay Gebben (US citizen) and Marion Dorothea Klaembt (US citizen) in 1984 Sales Manager with many interests Croydon, Holland Michegan, Santa Ana and Newport Beach, California and Snohomish Washington FAR00921	Georgina Ann Farndale 1 August 1934 to 21 August 1998 Married Charles S Wingard at Hendon in 1953 and Arthur M Van Haun in California in 1979 Emigrated to the USA Lambeth, Hendon, Orange County California FAR00934	Brian Picton Farndale 28 March 1934 to 20 June 2009 Married Elizabeth Jean Evans on 11 March 1961 Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan FAR00931	The Surrey 1 Line
Stewart Lindsay Pegg and two others	Michael Allen Farndale Smith	From Arthur and Ellen Jane Farndale		The American 3 Line
		Helen Rosemary Farndale 1935 to 13 January 2015 Hendon, East Sussex FAR00939	Robert (Bob) M B Farndale 1 December 1939 to 24 December 2004 Emigrated to Brisbane, Australia Hendon, London, Wellington, New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia, Herault, France FAR00958		Alison Farndale 1962 Pontypridd FAR01115	Nicola Farndale 1966 Married Ian Morgan in 1994 Pontypridd FAR01144

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 Brotton 3 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Brotton 3 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Brotton 3 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 2 Line
	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	Kilton, the Lost Village The story of the lost village of Kilton and its sylvan landscape	The Kilton 2 Line	Spreading out from Brotton and Loftus The Second Hub The story of a substantial division of the family who spread widely across Cleveland and beyond from Kilton, Brotton and Loftus	The Smugglers of Old Saltburn Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears
			The Loftus 1 Line
	Bernard Farndale 1912 to 1944 An airman shot down over Denmark after a bombing raid, and secretly buried by the Danish resistance The story of the shooting down of Lancaster ME 718	Service Opportunities for work as servants in households	The Brotton 3 Line	The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland	Ironstone Mining The engine of Cleveland’s Victorian development was its mineral supply, particularly its ironstone. Individuals in the Farndale Story worked in an extensive network of mines throughout the area