The Thornaby Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from Keith Farndale and Doreen Delmer

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

This is the story of Keith Farndale and his family who lived in the Thornaby area.

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
				Keith Farndale 21 June 1936 to 2006 Married Doreen Delmer on 25 July 1959 Thornaby, Stockton FAR00945
Colin K Farndale 1959 Married Kathleen Brown in 1983 Thornaby, Cleveland FAR01098		Geoffrey Farndale 1961 Married Pauline Speight in 1982 Cleveland, Stockton on Tees FAR01107		David G Farndale 1962 Cleveland FAR01112		Gary R Farndale 1962 Married Karen Hayden in 1984 and Susannah Stock in 2005 Thornaby, Swindon BAOR, Torpoint, Cornwall FAR01121		Jacqueline A Farndale 1964 Married Adam Lawther in 1981 Cleveland FAR01125
		Go under
James Leonard Farndale 1984 Cleveland, Manchester FAR01255	Stuart Graham Farndale 1988 Cleveland, Middlesbrough FAR01278	Helena Margaret Farndale 1992 Cleveland FAR01301	Katherine Ann Farndale 1992 Cleveland, Middlesbrough FAR01302
		From Geoffrey Farndale
Carl Geoffrey Farndale 1982 Cleveland, Stockton on Tees FAR01242	Clare Louise Farndale 1985 Cleveland, Stockton on Tees FAR01258	Lisa Farndale 1989 Cleveland, Stockton on Tees FAR01282	Lawrence James Farndale 1993 Cleveland, Stockton on Tees FAR01311
		Kelly Ann Farndale 1985 Married Sandeep Kumar in 2003 FAR01257	Ryan Craig Farndale 1988 Swindon, Corsham, Wiltshire, Lossiemouth, Scotland FAR01277	Louise Alexandra Farndale 1992 Kennels Director Swindon, Diss, Norfolk FAR01307	Shaunnagh Jane Farndale 1998 Chippenham FAR01348		Benjamin Elliot Farndale 9 December 2006 to 2007 Swindon, Wiltshire FAR01408	Samuel Oliver Farndale 2009 Plymouth, Devon FAR01436	Holly Grace Farndale 2011 Plymouth, Devon FAR01445

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 Thornaby Line

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