The Thirsk Line

The genealogy of a line of Farndales, descended from William Farndale and Mary Coverdale

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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

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

William Farndale was born at Craggs. He married Mary Coverdale in 1916 and they moved to Danby before farming for forty years at Plane Tree Farm, Maunby. His son Herbert farmed at Ash Tree Farm, nearby. William and Mary had the children and a large family of grandchildren and great grandchildren live today around Northallerton or further afield.

You can 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 Craggs Line

William Farndale 14 July 1894 to 16 March 1974 Married Mary Coverdale on 9 December 1916 Farmer at Plane Tree Farm, Maunby Thirsk, Craggs, Guisborough, Danby, Northallerton FAR00665

Herbert Farndale 28 February 1917 to 21 May 1970 Farmer at Ash Tree Farm, Maunby Married Sheila Wearmouth in 1949 Danby, Northallerton FAR00835

Mary Farndale 22 July 1918 to ? Dairy Maid Married William Phillips in 1940 Danby, Guisborough, Thirsk FAR00847

Dorothy Farndale 2 May 1920 to 2005 Housekeeper Married Cyril Thompson in 1943 Thirsk, Guisborough FAR00861

Charles Farndale 22 February 1922 to 23 April 2009 Horseman Married Joyce Cowton in 1945 Northallerton, ThirskFAR00875

Leslie (Les) Farndale 1923 to 20 January 2013 Married Mary Coates in 1952 Thirsk, Northallerton FAR00885

Gladys Farndale 1926 to 8 October 2018 Married Joseph Leslie (‘Leslie’) Craven in 1949 Thirsk, Northallerton FAR00900

William (Bill) Ernest Farndale 1928 to 5 April 2019 Married Betty H (Dorothy) Metcalfe in 1953 Thirsk, Northallerton FAR00908

Eileen M Farndale 1930 to 1999? Married Frank Berry in 1973 Thirsk, Barkston Ash FAR00914

John Francis Farndale 1932 to 13 February 2019 Married Margaret M Hugill in 1959 Thirsk, Richmond, Northallerton FAR00923

Donald Farndale 1937 Married Jillian Crookston in 1968 Thirsk, Wensleydale, Northallerton, Cleveland FAR00947

Joan Craven

Brian Craven

Kathleen E Farndale 1953 Married Ronald Kirby in 1974 Northallerton FAR01059

Peter H Farndale 1956 Married Margaret Hall in 1983 Northallerton, Cleveland FAR01084

Sheila L Farndale 1946 Married Christopher McLean in 1970 Thirsk FAR01005

Patricia A Farndale 1953 Married Philip A O’Keefe in 1971 Northallerton, Thirsk FAR01060

David C Farndale 1956 Married Susan Cuthbert in 1986 Northallerton FAR01081

Gillian M Farndale 1955 Married Alan Hudson in 1983 Northallerton FAR01069

Richard L Farndale 1957 Thirsk, Leeds FAR01090

Anthony W Farndale 1956 Married Susan Joyce in 1981 Northallerton, Richmond FAR01077

Susan D Farndale 1959 Married John O’Dwyer in 1990 Northallerton FAR01095

Rachel Margaret Farndale 1970 Married Paul Wright in 1993 Northallerton FAR01176

Michael Farndale 1970 Married Samantha O’Donnell in 1993 Northallerton, Cleveland, Guisborough FAR01175

Katherine Mary Farndale 1971 Married Michael Barker in 1999 Cleveland, Redcar FAR01189

John William Farndale 1974 Married Kirsten Godfrey in 2002 Cleveland, North Yorkshire FAR01202

Emily Victoria Farndale 1984 Northallerton FAR01253

Harriet Margaret Farndale 1987 Northallerton FAR01271

Stephanie Elizabeth Farndale 1991 Northallerton FAR01299

Alys Rebecca Farndale 1995 Organisational Governance Advisor at Environment Agency Northallerton, York FAR01321

Lois Hayley Farndale 1998 Personal Trainer Northallerton FAR01345

Aimee Lian Farndale 1991 Conservation Biologist and wildlife enthusiast Northallerton FAR01293

James William Farndale 1982 Married Deborah J Farndale (??) in 1994? Northallerton, Newcastle upon Tyne FAR01239

Fiona Christine Farndale 1984 Northallerton FAR01254

Julia Frances Farndale 1997 Northallerton, London FAR01339

Angus Donald Farndale 1996 Electrical Engineer Middlesbrough, Salford, Lancashire FAR01326

Orla Grace Farndale 2002 FAR01371

Joe Godfrey Farndale 2003 Middlesbrough FAR01376

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 Thirsk Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Thirsk Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Thirsk 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 Craggs Line	The Craggs Hall Farndales The story of Matthew Farndale and his family of Craggs Hall Farm
			The Thirsk Line