The Leeds 1 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from John Farndale and Sarah Brittain

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

John Farndale was born in 1826 in Coxwold. He married Sarah Brittain in Leeds in 1856. They settled there, in Bramley, and had a family of eleven children (though many of them died young). John was a cordwainer (a cordwainer makes new shoes distinguished from a cobbler who mends shoes) in Bramley. Several of his children were also shoemakers.

Bramley experienced an industrial boom and an increase in population in the nineteenth century, mostly due to the development of the woollen textile industry in the early nineteenth century and due to the boot making and engineering industries in the later part of the century.

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
				John Farndale 17 October 1826 to 1902 A cordwainer in Leeds Married Sarah Ann Brittain (or Briitton) on 3 February 1856 in Leeds Coxwold, Bramley FAR00293
Joseph Farndale 1857 to 1891 Shoemaker Married Martha Hill or Emma Selby in 1883 Bramley FAR00426	Mary Elizabeth Farndale 1858 to 1861 Hunslet FAR00431	Alice Clark Farndale 1859 to 1864 Hunslet, Bramley FAR00438	Elias Farndale 1860 to before 1871? Bramley FAR00441A	Jethro Farndale 15 April 1861 to 26 August 1893 Shoemaker Bramley FAR00447	Peter Farndale 1862 Shoemaker Bramley FAR00451A	William Farndale 1863 to 1864 Died aged 1 Bramley FAR00456	Elizabeth Farndale 1865 to 1934 Shoemaker machinist Married John Gall in 1896 Bramley, Leeds FAR00436A	William Farndale 1868 to 1934 Married Jane Labourer and cartman/drayman of Bramley and Beeston, Leeds Bramley, Leeds FAR00491	Walter Farndale 1872 to 25 January 1922 Bramley, Cheshire FAR00514A	John Farndale 1871 to 1920 Shoemaker Bramley FAR00511
				Joseph Farndale 1 March 1896 to 18 September 1950 Married Minnie Brown in 1926 Probably Private Joseph Farndale, Army Ordnance Corps in WW1 Licensing Authority official Labourer and heavy worker Bramley, Leeds FAR00675				Alfred Farndale 19 February 1898 to 1978 Splitting machinist, Rag metal broker , broker and dealer Private in the 9^th Lancers n WW1 Leeds, Holbeck FAR00690			Frederick Farndale 26 July 1900 to 27 February 1964 Labourer and brickworks heavy worker Leeds, Holbeck FAR00701
		William Farndale 12 November 1926 to 2000 Married Rosemary Scarborough in 1950 Leeds FAR00901		Frank Farndale 1931 to 16 October 2016 Married Anne E Ewan in 1959 Leeds, Barkston Ash, Harrogate FAR00918	Marlene Farndale 1935 Married John Pratt in 1955 Wharfedale, Leeds, USA FAR00936
							Farndale-Worfolk
		Allison E Farndale 1955 Married Kevin Holdsworth in 1976 FAR01071		Andrew Farndale 1959 Married Sandra Mullen in 1983 Barkston Ash, Leeds FAR01099
							Beverley Louise Farndale 1967 Leeds FAR01148

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 Leeds 1 Line

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