The Great Ayton 3 Line

The genealogy of a line of Farndales, descended from Henry Farndale and Elizabeth Appleton

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

The descendants of Henry Farndale who lived in the Great Ayton area between 1795 to the late Victorian period.

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 Kilton 1 Line
			Henry Farndale 25 October 1795 to 28 December 1857 Married Elizabeth Appleton and Ann Richardson Twin Agricultural labourer in Great Ayton Great Ayton, Middlesbrough (Nunthorpe), Middlesbrough (Stainton), Kilton, Brotton, Stokesley FAR00229
Ann Farndale 31 December 1820 to after 1891 Great Ayton, Cooper Bewley, Billingham Married Mark Charlton FAR00273	William Appleton Farndale 29 June 1823 to 5 January 1908 Married Jane Campbell and Ann Robson Servant, miller, farm labourer and jet miner at Eston Middlesbrough (Nunthorpe), Eston, Stokesley, Great Ayton FAR00283	Elizabeth Farndale 29 January 1826 to ? Servant to William Garbutt in Great Ayton FAR00291	John Henry Farndale 13 April 1828 to 9 March 1866 Married Sarah Walker Miner of West Hartlepool for was killed aged 37 by a fall of iron stone at the Poston Mines, Ormsby, Middlesbrough Hartlepool, Stainton, Middlesbrough (Ormesby), Stockton FAR00302	Jane Farndale 23 January 1831 to 13 December 1869 Married Benjamin Darwin Great Ayton, Stokesley FAR00310	Robert G Farndale 9 February 1834 to 14 January 1900 Married Mary Butterwick on 5 October 1862 Master boot and shoe maker of Hartlepool Stainton, Great Ayton, Hartlepool FAR00326	Mary Ann Farndale 3 March 1855 The only child to Henry’s second wife, Ann Richardson Great Ayton, Stockton Married Thomas Hornby or Ralph Graham in 1880 FAR00409
					The Hartlepool 1 Line
Mary Ann Farndale 1871 to 7 December 1874 Guisborough, Eston Died aged 3 FAR00507	William Henry Farndale 23 May 1872 to 1874 Guisborough Died aged 2 FAR00516	Joseph Farndale 1874 to 1874 FAR00524A	Margaret Ann Farndale 1876 to 26 February 1885 Died aged 8 Stokesley, Skelton, Guisborough FAR00541	William A Farndale 2 February 1892 to 19 March 1948 Farm and cattle work Corporal in the Yorkshire Regiment 1914 to 1920 Married Agnes Ethel Longstaff (later records suggest may have been Taylor) in 1919 Stokesley, Leeds, Great Broughton, Wetherby FAR00651
		Cyril Ernest Farndale 21 June 1921 to 24 December 1985 Served in the Royal Artillery (anti tank) in WW2 and later a postman Married Nellie Bowes in 1949 Darlington, Leeds FAR00872	Kenneth (Ken) Farndale 24 December 1922 to 22 November 1992 Farmer Married Edna Elizabeth Webster in 1943 (she died in 1982) Married Elizabeth Josephine Robinson in 1988 Darlington, Leeds, Wetherby, Barkston Ash, Northallerton FAR00884	Ethel Doreen Farndale 1925 Married Joseph Hall in 1946 Teesdale, Richmond FAR00895	Ronald Farndale 25 April 1932 to 1956 He became disabled and was cared for at Claypenny Colony, Easingwold Bedale, Easingwold, Middlesbrough FAR00925
			The Wetherby 2 Line
		Catherine Ann Farndale 4 July 1949 to 31 January 2005 Married Trevor Mountain on 30 April 1973 Leeds, Blackburn FAR01037
		Joanne Helen Mountain and others

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The Deeper Ancestry of the Great Ayton 3 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Great Ayton 3 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Great Ayton 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
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	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 Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears
	The First World War The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story	The First World War Soldiers The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War	The Great Ayton 3 Line	Great Ayton The story of the multiple generations of Farndales who made Great Ayton their home	Great Ayton A visit to Great Ayton where many members of the family lived, and a side trip to the James Cook Monument