The London 3 Line

The genealogy of a line of Farndales, descended from George Farndale

 

Home Page

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Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

The Farndale Story

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

The Farndale Lineages

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

The Farndale Directory

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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 London 3 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

George Farndale was born in South Shields in 1921. He travelled to London after the Second World War and this is the story of his family.

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 South Shields 2 Line

 

 

 

 

 

George Farndale

17 March 1921 to 2006

Married nee Gilligan in 1944

South Shields, Middlesbrough, Fulham, Lambeth, Croydon

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Peter George Farndale

1947

Married Susan Dowden in 1971

Fulham, Greenwich, Lewisham, Devon

FAR01015

Susan Farndale

1948

Married Robert Lloyd in 1968

Lambeth

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Lesley Farndale

1959

Married David Cox in 1978

Lambeth, Sutton

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Tracey Jane Farndale

1973

Married John Sullivan in 1992

Greenwich, Lewisham

FAR01196

 

Natasha Ann Farndale

1975

Married Martin Sheppard in 2001

Lewisham, Bromley

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Perry David Farndale

1995

MMN Farndale

Lewisham

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Holly Farndale

24 to 26 March 1989

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Died aged 0

Lambeth, London

FAR01285

Jack Samuel Farndale

1993

MMN Farndale

Lambeth, London

FAR01309

 

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 London 3 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the London 3 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the London 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

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A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Primeval Swamp

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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

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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

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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)

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The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor

 

 

 

 

Anglo Saxon Kirkdale

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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The Scandinavian centre of northern England

The Kirkdale Sundial

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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

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Regime Change

Game of Thrones

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1066 to 1200

The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest

Rievaulx Abbey

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This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154

 

 

The Pathfinders

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Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places

Poachers of Pickering Forest

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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

Sheep and Shepherds by MINIATURIST, English

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

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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

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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

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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

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Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears

George William Farndale

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A Comic Actor who joined the Yorkshire Mummers

The First World War

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The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story

The First World War Soldiers

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The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War

 

The Great Ayton 2 Line

Great Ayton

The story of the multiple generations of Farndales who made Great Ayton their home

 

Great Ayton

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A visit to Great Ayton where many members of the family lived, and a side trip to the James Cook Monument

Joseph Farndale

1795 to 1877

The father of a large Great Ayton family, who was a cartwright

John William Farndale (“Newcastle Johnny”)

1919 to 1986

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The Youngest Jarrow Marcher in 1936

The Jarrow March 1936

Re-enactment of Jarrow March fizzles out after just a quarter of the journey

The story of the Jarrow March of 1936, of which Johnny Farndale, was the youngest member

Newcastle and South Shields

The many members of the family who settled in South Shields and Jarrow

The South Shields 2 Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The London 3 Line