The Leicester Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales descended from John William Farndale and Dorothy Chamberlain

Home Page Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

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

Themes Links to other pages with historical research and related material

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 Leicester Line.

John William Farndale was born in Leeds in 1886. He married Dorothy Chamberlain in Leicester and after service in the first world war, during which time he suffered a gas attack, he settled in Leicester where he worked as a leather salesman.

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 Wakefield 1 Line
	John William Farndale 18 May 1886 to 29 June 1954 Married Dorothy Doris Chamberlain in 1916 He may have served with the East Yorkshire Regiment and the Labour Corps in WW1 Sorting clerk and leather salesman Leeds, Leicester FAR00615
Pauline Margaret Farndale 22 February 1917 Married Samuel Clarke in 1938 Leicester, Billsden FAR00839		Michael Anthony Farndale 2 January 1931 to 2001 Married Sheila M Carter in 1955 Leicester, Nottingham FAR00916
	Mark Anthony Farndale 1957 Married Deborah Brown in 1980 Nottingham, Leicester, Harrogate FAR01087	Simon S Farndale 1960 Married Helen Lewin in 1983 Leicester, Rushcliffe, Nottingham FAR01102	Jayne E Farndale 1961 Married David Collins in 1984 Nottingham, Leicester, Rushcliffe FAR01110
Jonathan Mark Farndale 1986 Nottingham, Goole, Doncaster FAR01265	Sarah Jayne Farndale 1989 Nottingham FAR01283	Emma Victoria Farndale 1991 Nottingham FAR01296	Rebekah Elizabeth Farndale 1993 Jeweller Nottingham FAR01314	Reece Simon Farndale 1996 Finance Coordinator at Sheffield Chamber of Commerce Nottingham, Sheffield FAR01330

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 Leicester Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Leicester Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Leicester 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 History of Whitby to 1850 A history of Whitby at the height of its maritime power in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, home to several large Farndale families. A look back to the Anglo Saxon history of Whitby in the time of Celtic and Roman Christianity	A Perspective of Whitby The place of Dracula inspiration where many Farndales have been buried, provides a vantage point over Whitby, and its maritime activity	The Whitby 5 Line	21 – The Victorian Policemen To contrast with the medieval outlaw poachers of Pickering Forest, the story of the law makers including two influential Chief Constables and the real Inspector Foyle	Joseph Farndale 1842 to 1901 The Chief Victorian Constable of Birmingham who foiled a Jack the Ripper Hoax and played a key role in uncovering the Ledsam Dynamite Conspiracy
	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	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 Wakefield 1 Line	Joseph Farndale CBE KPM 1864 to 1954 The Chief Constable of Bradford who pioneered the use of fingerprints, invented the police box, and played a key role in Bradford’s evolution at the start of the twentieth century
			The Leicester Line