The Hartlepool 1 Line

The genealogy of a line of Farndales, descended from Robert Farndale and Mary Butterwick

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

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

The Farndale Directory Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

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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 Hartlepool 1 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

Robert Farndale was a shoe maker and master boot maker of Hartlepool and founded a five generation family of Hartlepool Farndales. His family of 7 were associated with Hartlepool and over time some of this family moved to Bradford, South Shields, and Darlington.

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 Great Ayton 3 Line

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, Barwick, Great Ayton, Hartlepool FAR00326

John George Farndale 1864 to 31 January 1927 General labourer and cement trimmer Hartlepool FAR00459

Eliza Farndale 1865 to 1867 Died aged 1 Hartlepool FAR00469

Henry Farndale 5 March 1869 to 1952 A sailor, barman, and later Acting Sergeant in Royal Field Artillery in First World War and probably a seaman for most of his working life Married Elizabeth Armin in 1892 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00495

William Farndale 28 February 1872 to 1948 Labourer at poultry farm, fitter Marred Elizabeth Shackleton in 1902 Hartlepool, Darlington FAR00515

Elizabeth Farndale 1874 to 1 May 1915 Domestic servant who lived with her brother John George Farndale for a while Hartlepool FAR00528

Robert Farndale 10 November 1877 to March 1936 Married Ethel Barrett Private in King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Labour Corps and Royal Sussex Regiment in WW1 Hotel Manager and barman Hartlepool FAR00552

Mary Hannah Farndale 24 October 1884 to 1965 Married Charlie Fox in 1907 Burler and mender, worsted industry Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00596

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Ethel Farndale 1 July 1894 to 1926 Fish Dealer’s Assistant at Hartlepool Married Sidney Burns in 1916 Hartlepool FAR00666

Hilda Farndale 13 November 1895 to 1946 Married Fred Wager in 1920 (presumably the brother of Hezekiah Wager, who married Olive) Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Bradford FAR00672

Edith Farndale 19 August 1897 to 1953 Married George Blackburn in 1920 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00680

Olive Farndale 22 January 1899 to 1989 Married Hezekiah Wager in 1922 (presumably the brother of Fred Wager, who married Hilda) Hartlepool, Stockton, Bradford FAR00692

Henry Farndale 25 April 1902 to 1948 Public Works Contractor’s Labourer and at timber merchants Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00714

John Armin Farndale 22 March 1904 to 1984 Married Charlotte Georgeson in 1932 and Mary Haigh in 1959 Coggie Tram Driver and steel and iron works Stockton, Hartlepool Bradford, South Shields FAR00728

Doris Farndale 24 March 1906 to 1996 Married John North in 1940 A fly frame spinner in Bradford Stockton, Bradford FAR00736

Robert George Farndale 14 February 1909 to 1978 French polisher, merchant navy, publican Married Winifred Sibley on 11 August 1934 Lived in Stockton, Hartlepool and then Bradford FAR00755

James Armin Farndale 1 September 1911 to 1981 General Labourer Married Elizabeth Gurney in 1948 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00778

William Farndale 21 February 1913 to 1980 Married Harriet Hirst in 1937 but he was widowed by 1939 Engineer Hartlepool, Bradford, Chesterfield FAR00796

Elizabeth Farndale 1915 to ? Married Arthur Stephenson in 1938 Hartlepool, Bradford FAR00814

William Robert Farndale 11 May 1903 to 6 May 1995 Married Alfreda Brown in 1936 Oiler on LNER Railway and joiner Darlington, Hartlepool, Leeds FAR00720

Lillie (Lily, Lillian) Farndale 8 September 1904 to 2005 Married Albert Bedford in 1944 Hairdresser Hartlepool, Darlington She lived to 101 FAR00725

Sidney Farndale 1 October 1907 to 25 November 1978 Married Ethel Robinson in 1934 General Labourer Stockton, Darlington FAR00746

Reginald Farndale 31 August 1913 to 1969 Married Annie Reed in 1942 Moulder’s Labourer Darlington FAR00799

The South Shields 1 Line

The Bradford 1 Line

From Robert Farndale

Colin Robert Farndale 4 May 1934 to 2002 Married Marjorie Y Sanderson in 1955 Darlington, Durham, Stockton FAR00932

Gordon William Reginald Farndale 1943 to 22 July 2011 Married Olwyn Lewis in 1965 and Heather Nightingale in 1967 Darlington, Richmond FAR00986A

Robert William Farndale 10 July 1907 to 1909 Hartlepool Died aged 1 FAR00743

Wilfred Farndale 3 October 1909 to 15 July 1976 Hartlepool, Oxford FAR00761

Eva J Farndale 28 February 1916 to 4 August 1960 Married John W Langhorne in 1942 Shop Despatch Clerk Hartlepool, Darlington FAR00826

Linda Farndale 10 October 1948 Married Rodney Simpson in 1990 Bradford FAR01034

James Henry Farndale 4 June 1954 Married Carole Thornton in 1975 and Lesley Baldwin in 1996 Served with 1st Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers, then lived in Yorkshire Bradford, Bangor (NI), Birkenhead FAR01064

Ian Farndale 30 November 1960 Married Annette Beaumont in 1980 Bradford, Cleveland FAR01105

Richard A Farndale 1965 Halifax FAR01138

Susan C Farndale 1956 Married Frederick Cain in 1983 Darlington, Cleveland FAR01083

Stuart T Farndale 1964 Stockton on Tees FAR01129

Andrew D Farndale 1965-1965 Died aged 0 Darlington FAR01131

Elaine Farndale 1968 Darlington, Stockton on Tees FAR01161

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Martin Michael Farndale 5 July 1976 Bradford FAR01212

Natasha Elizabeth Farndale 22 January 1978 to 2011 Died aged 33 Birkenhead, London, Tadworth, Croydon FAR01218

Jaffe Francis Farndale 1990 Croydon FAR01289

Oteri Comfort Farndale 1991 Sutton, Surrey FAR01298

Liam James Farndale 1997 Bradford FAR01337

James Ian Farndale 1979 Bradford FAR01225

Ria Louise Farndale 1983 Bradford FAR01248

Thomas William Farndale 1986 Bradford FAR01267

Bradley Antonio Farndale 1999 MMN Elia Sutton, Surrey FAR01349

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 Hartlepool 1 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Hartlepool 1 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Hartlepool 1 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
		Dark Satanic Mills The many families who lived in Leeds, Bradford, Coatham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton through the period of industrial transition	The Hartlepool 1 Line