The Stockton 1 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from John Farndale and Elizabeth Wallace

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This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Stockton 1 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

John Farndale was a farm labourer and worked in an iron foundry who lived in Hinderwell/Roxby, then briefly at Kirkleatham before settling in Stockton. He had a family of ten.

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 Brotton 3 Line
				John Farndale 16 March 1796 to 28 October 1868 Married Elizabeth Wallace (sometimes Wallis) on 30 December 1827 Farmer, farm labourer, iron foundry labourer Stockton, Brotton, Kildale, Barnby, Roxby, Whitby, Kirkleatham FAR00230
John Farndale 30 August 1829 to 10 May 1899 Married Ann Thrattles on 16 July 1854 and then Ellen Thrattles on 7 December 1873 Grocer’s warehouseman of Stockton. When his wife died, he married his sister in law Kildale, Great Ayton, Kirkleatham, Redcar, Stockton FAR00305	George Farndale 1835 to 1887 Married Catherine Wemyss Leng on 5 August 1865 Druggist and grocer who suffered bankruptcy, and the tragic death of his three daughters in the 1874 pandemic Roxby, Hinderwell, Stockton, Barnby, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Gateshead, Rothbury, Northumberland FAR00333	Mary Farndale 1837 Married Thomas Dods in 1855 Roxby, Scaling, Hinderwell, Guisborough FAR00339	Jane Farndale 1838 Roxby, Kirkleatham, Stockton FAR00340	Peter Wallis Farndale 14 February 1839 to 23 April 1840 Died aged 1 Boulby, Hinderwell FAR00343	Hannah Farndale 1840 to 4 April 1845 Whitby FAR00348	Sarah Farndale 1843 to 4 April 1845 Roxby, Whitby FAR00357	Sarah Farndale 1846 Married Jesse Howarth or James Bowden in 1873 Roxby, Stockton FAR00368A	William Farndale 6 July 1845 to 1 August 1895 Solicitor’s clerk Kirkleatham, Coatham, Stockton FAR00369A	Peter Farndale 13 November 1847 to 18 June 1896 Married Margaret Duncan Devereaux on 9 January 1879 Solicitor’s clerk of Stockton Stockton, Kirkleatham, Guisborough FAR00373
Mary Ann Farndale 14 April 1856 to 1933 Married Ralph Gibbon on 28 March 1880 Moved back to the Farndale hub of Kilton in about 1881 Redcar, Stockton, Kilton, Guisborough, Brotton FAR00418	William Ralph Farndale 28 March 1858 to 3 May 1870 Died aged 11 Stockton FAR00430	Jane Ellen Farndale 17 January 1864 to 1951 Servant to the butcher of Billingham Stockton, Billingham, Middlesbrough, South Shields, Leyburn, Wensleydale FAR00458	Sarah Hannah Farndale 30 January 1867 to 1953 Married Alfred Wilks Windross, who ran a book binding business, in 1889 Stockton, Hartlepool FAR00484	Margaret Elizabeth Farndale 3 July 1869 to 4 October 1948 Unmarried Stockton, York, Leeds, Blackburn FAR00500
Mary Ann Gibbon (Born 1882), John William Gibbon (Born 1886), Jane Ellen Gibbon (Born 1889)			Gertrude Ellen Windross (Born 1891), Ivy Ann Windross (Born 1894, later Ivy Arnold), Alfred Farndale Windross (Born 22 December 1895)	Mary Frances Farndale 1867 to 17 December 1874 Died aged 7 and buried on the same day as her 4 year old sister Stockton FAR00483 There was a smallpox pandemic in 1870 to 1874, which originated in France. The Vaccination Act 1853 helped to mitigate its effect in England, but perhaps this was the cause of three (or perhaps four) sisters dying the same year. There was also a cholera epidemic at the time.	Catherine Wiley Farndale 1870 to 17 December 1874 Died aged 4 and buried on the same day as her 7 year old sister Stockton FAR00502	Annie Louisa Farndale 18 February 1872 to 26 December 1874 Also died and buried with her sisters in late 1874 Stockton FAR00514	Emily Farndale 12 September 1872 to 12 September 1872 The records don’t confirm Emily’s parents’ identity, but it is possible she was another daughter of George and Catherine (and was likely to have been this wider family) FAR00517	William Leng Farndale 1876 to 9 May 1932 Brewer and wine merchant and later a Brewer’s Merchant in Rothbury Married Margaret Ann Davison in 1896 Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Rothbury FAR00539
								The Northumberland Line

The Deeper Ancestry of the Stockton 1 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Stockton 1 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Stockton 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
		Spreading out from Brotton and Loftus The Second Hub The story of a substantial division of the family who spread widely across Cleveland and beyond from Kilton, Brotton and Loftus	The Loftus 1 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 The family’s history provides a direct pathway to experience these years of momentous change	The Brotton 3 Line
		Bernard Farndale 1912 to 1944 An airman shot down over Denmark after a bombing raid, and secretly buried by the Danish resistance The story of the shooting down of Lancaster ME 718	The Brotton 3 Line
		Dark Satanic Mills The many families who lived in Leeds, Bradford, Coatham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton through the period of industrial transition	The Stockton 1 Line	William Leng Farndale 1876 to 1932 Brewer and Northumberland Hussar of Rothbury, Northumberland