The Kirkleatham Skelton Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from Nicholas and Agnes Farndale

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

The Story of the Kirkleatham Skelton Line

The Kirkleatham-Skelton Line is where the recorded history of the Farndales in Cleveland began. Most Farndale lines can trace their ancestry directly back to Nicholas, born in about 1512. These were the folk who emerged in Cleveland as the only people using the Farndale name, having descended from those who had left the valley of Farndale in medieval times.

Looking carefully at the records we have regarding Nicholas, his potential children and grandchildren, we can build a timeline. We know that from the second half of the sixteenth century, the Farndale ancestors were predominantly living in the Cleveland area. So this timeline gives an explanation as to how Farndales left the dale and moved south, with a group living around Doncaster, and how and when the Doncaster Farndales moved to Skelton/Kirkleatham to establish the lines of Farndales across Cleveland.

I have explained on the page of Nicholas, the analysis which leads to the conclusion of our geographical ancestry, even though the records at this era are slim.

Campsall, Doncaster, 1512 to 1564 (perhaps 1335 to 1564)

Nicholas Farndale might have lived in or around Doncaster, perhaps at Campsall, where he may have been born in about 1512.

He met Agnes, who might also have come from around Doncaster too. They married in about 1537. If so, they probably married around Doncaster, perhaps in the same church in Campsall, where their son William later married.

Their son, William was born in about 1539. Jean was born in about 1540. Let’s assume they were still living around Campsall, Doncaster then.

We then know that William married at the church at Campsall (the same church where Robin Hood is reputed in stories to have married Maid Marion!) in 1564.

Moving north, between 1564 and 1567

Between 1564 and 1567, the family moved to the Skelton/Kirkleatham area. One possibility is that Agnes came from there. Another is that Jean shortly afterwards married Richard Fairly, a family from Kirkleatham. The most likely reason is that it was Margaret Atkinson, who married William Farndale in Campsall, who came from Wilton near to Kirkleatham. This theory is supported by the fact that William and Margaret’s daughter Eleanor Farndale, married Peter Atkinson from Wilton in 1598 and it seems likely that he married perhaps a cousin or second cousin, the Atkinsons being a family of Wilton. For whatever reason, they moved to Kirkleatham.

Kirkleatham, 1567 to 1586

In 1567, Jean married Richard Fairly at Kirkleatham (where we know Nicholas and Agnes both died). Richard Fairley had a bit of a pedigree. So perhaps another reason for the move north is that Jean moved to the neighbourhood of her new husband, and the whole family moved north at about the same time.

They then lived in Kirkleatham, which was perhaps more the Fairly home than the Farndale home before then.

William’s three children were born in Kirkleatham between 1568 and 1573.

We then know that Nicholas died in Kirkleatham in 1572, and Agnes died there in 1586.

Skelton

William died in Skelton and was buried there.

The focus of the family thereafter turns more to Skelton, Liverton, Loftus and Moorsholm.

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 First Family Genealogy
	Nicholas and Agnes Farndale The most likely paternal and maternal ancestors of modern Farndales, who died in Kirkleatham having probably emigrated with their family into Cleveland	Nicholas farndaile C 1512 to 6 August 1572 Doncaster, Campsall, Kirkleatham, Wilton FAR00059	Agnes farndaile c 1516 to 23 January 1586 Probably the wife of Nicholas Doncaster, Campsall, Kirkleatham, Wilton FAR00060
	William and Margaret (nee Atkinson) Farndale The couple who married at St Mary Magdalene Church in Campsall north of Doncaster, and who emigrated to Cleveland and were buried in Skelton.	William Farndale c 1539 to 24 January 1606 Married Margaret Atkinson at Campsall on 24 January 1606 Doncaster, Campsall, Wilton, Skelton FAR00063		Jean Farndaile C 1540 Married Richard Fairley in Kirkleatham on 16 October 1567 Kirkleatham, Wilton FAR00064 The Fairley Family
Jane farndell Born 1568? Married Valentine Wraye in Skelton in 1588 Skelton FAR00066 Five Wraye siblings	George Farndale c1570 To 9 March 1606 Married Margery Nelson from Wilton, near Kirkleatham in 1595 Skelton FAR00067		Eln or Eleanor Farndale c1573 to c 1633 Married Peter Atkinson at Wilton near Kirkleatham in 1598. Peter might have been her cousin Kirkleatham, Wilton FAR00068		Isabell farnedaile c1592 to 2 April 1592 Died at birth Skelton FAR00069
William Farndaile 22 January 1599 to 24 January 1677 Married Jane Skelton, Moorsholm, Liverton FAR00071	Susan Farndaile c1601 to c1660 Skelton FAR00072		George Farndaile 16 March 1602 to 17 August 1693 Married Jaine or Jane Skelton, Liverton, Moorsholm, Loftus FAR00073		Infanta Farndayle 4 January 1603 to 4 January 1603 Died at birth Skelton FAR00074	Rychards ffarnedayle 3 February 1604 to c 1685 Married Emmie Nellice in 1632 Skelton, Liverton FAR00075
The Skelton 1 Line		William Farndal 20 November 1625 to 19 January 1677 Liverton, Great Ayton FAR00078	Nicholas Farndale 6 July 1634 to 28 February 1693/4 Married Elizabeth ? and Elizabeth Bennison A Liverton Family, Nicholas had four children from his first marriage and two from his second Liverton FAR00082	Jane Farndale 17 November 1636 Liverton FAR00086	Isabal Farndale 18 March 1637 Liverton FAR00088	The Liverton 1 Line
		Ane Farndale c 1660 Liverton FAR00102	The Liverton 2 Line

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The Deeper Ancestry of the Kirkleatham Skelton Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Kirkleatham Skelton Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Kirkleatham Skelton 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