The Whitby 4 Line

The genealogy of the line of Farndales, descended from William Farndale and Elizabeth Barry

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This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Whitby 4 Line of George Farndale, the butcher of Brotton (who died aged 29), and his immediate family.

John Farndale was a carpenter who probably saw service in the Royal Navy. He married Dinah Boyes and they had a son who became a master mariner, and six daughters.

The son was John Christopher Farndale the Elder who was therefore probably the great grandson of John Farndale who sailed colliers with James Cook out of Whitby. It is likely John Christopher Farndale was the grandson of Robert Farndale, also a master mariner, and later buried in the churchyard of Dracula fame at Whitby.

John Christopher Farndale the Elder was a painter when he married Ann Ling in 1825 and until the birth of his third son in 1830. But by 1836, he was a master mariner of Whitby, captaining a coal brig called the William and Nancy with cargos of coal largely between Whitby and the north east and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire and the southeast. See also the merchant adventures of John Christopher Farndale Senior.

Of his family of five, John’s eldest son, William Farndale also became a master mariner and continued to captain the William and Nancy. See also the merchant adventures of William Farndale. The third son, John Christopher Farndale the Younger captained other ships. See also the merchant adventures of John Christopher Farndale Junior. They all lived lives of adventure, perils at sea, and travel. His second son, Thomas Farndale was a ship’s broker’s clerk who died aged only 31. His daughter, Mary Farndale, was a straw bonnet maker and married a master mariner in Whitby. His fifth child, James Farndale, died an infant. This was a family of mariners at the heart of the maritime coal industry in the mid Victorian era. The second generation ventured widely around the North Sea (often called the German sea at the time) and the Baltic and further south. But John died young, at the age of only 35.

The earliest record of coal being transported in Whitby ships was in 1392 when coal was taken to Whitby Abbey from Newcastle to fire the Abbott’s warming house. The shipbuilders of Whitby built vessels for the whaling industry for years and in the nineteenth century, as the whaling industry faded out, coal replaced whales as the main industry. Many colliers were built in Whitby. Coal was mined north of Whitby in Newcastle and Sunderland particularly and the folk of Whitby built ships to provide transport. Whitby colliers supplied vast quantities of coal to London and followed routes along the east coast and shipped to many towns along the way.

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 Whitby 3 Line
Could he have been a son of Robert Farndale, master mariner of Whitby, given the continued nautical history of this family. See Whitby 2 Line.			William Farndale 13 July 1743 to 27 April 1777 Married Elizabeth Barry Master mariner of Whitby Whitby, Brotton, Skelton FAR00157
			John Farndale 1773 to 5 July 1833 Married Dinah Boyes Carpenter and possible service in the navy Loftus, Whitby FAR00198
Ann Farndale 15 April 1800 to March 1873 Possibly a widow and dressmaker Loftus, Brotton, possibly Lythe, Guisborough FAR00241	John Chistopher Farndale 3 January 1802 to 5 February 1837 Married Ann Ling A painter, farmer and then master mariner in Whitby who died aged 35 Whitby FAR00244	Hannah Farndale 29 February 1804 to 19 August 1883 Married Edward Hunt Joiner's wife Whitby FAR00247	Jane Farndale 9 December 1806 to 21 February 1882 Married Nicholas Rippon Carpenter’s daughter who married in Middlesbrough Middlesbrough, Whitby, Stockton FAR00251	Dinah Farndale 19 March 1814 to 31 December 1887 Married Robert Stamp, but no children Carpenter’s daughter and carpenter’s wife She died a quite wealthy widow, a shareholder Whitby, Stockton FAR00256	Mary Ann Farndale 6 October 1817 to 2 May 1819 Carpenter’s daughter of Whitby who died aged 1 Whitby FAR00261	Elizabeth Farndale 6 November 1825 to 9 June 1841 Whitby, lived with sister Jane Rippon at Stockton FAR00290
	William Farndale 17 November 1825 to 6 March 1887 Married Ann Brown Master mariner of Whitby, whose wife was a lodge house keeper Whitby FAR00289	Thomas Farndale 3 March 1828 to 1 June 1859 Ship’s broker’s clerk Whitby FAR00300	John Christopher Farndale 18 October 1830 to 23 February 1868 Married Christiana Ainslie on 3 July 1857 and then Jane Barnett Telford on 21 December 1861 A master mariner of Whitby who moved to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Died at sea in the Bay of Biscay Whitby, Wisbech FAR00308	Mary Farndale 24 December 1832 Straw bonnet maker and mariner’s wife of Whitby Married John Chambers on 10 December 1852 Whitby, Scarborough FAR00320	James Farndale 24 October 1836 to 28 March 1837 Died an infant Whitby FAR00336
				Sarah Ann Chambers
John Thomas Farndale 15 June 1854 to March 1930 Bank manager with Barclays Bank Whitby, Knaresborough FAR00405	Jane Farndale 26 September 1856 to 23 January 1938 Lived ‘on her own means’ with her brother John Whitby, York FAR00422	Maria J Farndale (Maria J Lennard) William’s Niece 1867 Adopted? Whitby (Ruswarp), Middlesborough FAR00485	Fanny Amelia Rose Farndale 1863 to ? She was still alive 1868 when her father died Wisbech FAR00457	Tom Christopher Farndale 20 March 1865 to ? Living with his grandfather, John Henry Telford in 1871 Wisbech FAR00467	Eva Jennie Farndale 29 December 1866 to ? Lived as a boarder with another family by age 4 Wisbech FAR00480

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 Whitby 4 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Whitby 4 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Whitby 4 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
	James Cook 1728 to 1779 The association of James Cook with Cleveland, Whitby, Great Ayton, the Farndale ancestral lands, and individuals of the Farndale Story	John Farndale 1709 to 1790 John Farndale served alongside James Cook, discoverer of the Southern Continent, on colliers out of Whitby	The Whitby 3 Line	The Mariners of Whitby The Third Hub The story of the Whitby Farndales who settled in the bustling port of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	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 4 Line