Nicholas farndaile
1512 to 6 August 1572 (buried)
FAR00059
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All we know about Nicholas Farndale is that he was buried in Kirkleatham on 6 August 1572. But we can
piece together a great deal more about him, from the wider evidence.
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The most likely
paternal and maternal ancestors of modern Farndales, who died in Kirkleatham
having probably emigrated with their family into Cleveland |
1512
If he was buried
in 1572, then say he was aged 60 when he was buried, then he was born in about
1512.
1537
We also know from Kirkleatham Parish records that Agnes farndaile
(FAR00060) was
buried in Kirkleatham
on 23 January 1586. So it doesn’t seem too much of a leap to suppose that Agnes
was Nicholas’ wife. If Agnes was 70 when she was born, then perhaps Agnes was
born in about 1516.
I have seen
another person’s family tree that refers to Agnes as Agnes Null. I’m not sure
if someone has seen evidence that her maiden name might have been Null. I
haven’t found any evidence of her maiden name.
If Nicholas was
about 25 when they married, and Agnes was about 21, then maybe they married in
about 1537.
They may have
been married around Doncaster,
perhaps Campsall,
for reasons which will be explained below.
1539
We have
previously linked Nicholas and Agnes to the following siblings:
William Farndale (FAR00063),
who may have been born in around 1539 in or around Doncaster.
Doncaster
Parish records show his marriage in Campsall in 1564.
Jean Farndale (FAR00064), who may have been born in around 1540 in
or around Doncaster. Kirkleatham Parish
Records show her marriage in Kirkleatham in
1567.
It seems very
likely that Jean was their daughter, given she was married in Kirkleatham in
1567, five years before we know that Nicholas died in Kirkleatham.
For the purpose
of family continuity, the real question is whether William was also their son.
The link to William at first seems a bit tenuous, as the link to Kirkleatham is
not obvious. However there are reasons why the link is likely.
· We don’t know
when William was born, but from the date of his marriage, this was probably
about 1539. That would make sense if he was Jean’s sister. We know he married
Margaret Atkinson (or possibly Kiddall) in 1564 in
Campsall, which is near Doncaster.
· Skelton
and Kirkleatham
are about 5 miles apart and the same parish.
· There are three
children who married between 1588 and 1598, two in in Skelton.
(1) Jane, married in Skelton in 1588; (2) George who married in Skelton
in 1595; and (3) Eln or Eleanore, married at Wilton,
near Kirkleatham in
1598. Eln married Peter Atkinson, and it seems likely
that she was a cousin or otherwise related through her mother’s family – Margaret’s
maiden name was Atkinson. So the family might have moved from Campsall near Doncaster
to Wilton near Kirkleatham
after William had married Margaret Atkinson in 1564 because that is where
Margaret’s family lived.
· So if William who
married in Campsall
is also William who died in or near Skelton,
then it is very likely that these are his children, with Margaret.
· So William
married near Doncaster in
1564, but was in Skelton
for the birth of his first child in 1588. Skelton
is about 5 miles from Kirkleatham, so
there may be some interchangeability in the records here. He then died in or
near Skelton
in 1606.
So
looking carefully at the records we have regarding Nicholas, his potential
children and grandchildren, we can build a timeline. We know that from the
second half of the sixteenth century, the Farndale ancestors were predominantly
living in the Cleveland area. So this timeline gives an explanation as to how early Farndales left the dale and moved south, with a group living around Doncaster, and how and when the Doncaster Farndales moved to
Skelton/Kirkleatham in the mid sixteenth century to establish the lines of
Farndales across Cleveland.
Campsall, Doncaster, 1512 to 1564
Nicholas Farndale might have lived in or around Doncaster from when he was born in about 1512.
He met Agnes, who might have come from around Doncaster too. They would have married in about 1537. If so, they probably
married around Doncaster, perhaps in the same church in Campsall, where William later married.
William was born in about 1539. Jean was born in about 1540. Let’s
assume they were still living around Campsall, Doncaster then.
We then know that William married at the church at Campsall, the same church where Robin Hood is reputed to have married Maid
Marion by later legend, in 1564.
Moving
north, between 1564 and 1567
Between 1564 and
1567, the family moved to the Skelton/Kirkleatham area. One
possibility is that Agnes came from there. For whatever reason, they moved to Kirkleatham.
Kirkleatham, 1567
to 1586
In
1567, Jean married Richard Fairly at Kirkleatham, where we know Nicholas and Agnes both died. Richard Fairley had
a bit of a pedigree. So perhaps another reason for the move north is that Jean
moved to the neighbourhood of her new husband, and the whole family moved north
at about the same time.
They then lived
in Kirkleatham, which was
perhaps more the Fairly home, and the Atkinson home, than the Farndale home
before then.
William’s three
children were born in Kirkleatham between 1568 and
1573.
We then know that
Nicholas died in Kirkleatham in 1572, and
Agnes died there in 1586.
William died in Skelton in 1606 and was buried there.
Going
back further from Nicholas
If
this theory is correct, and it all fits pretty neatly, then this places the
direct known relatives of certainly most, and probably all Farndales today to
the Doncaster/Campsall area between about 1512 and 1564.
Modern Farndales are almost certainly related to each other. There
is some doubt about the link of the Ampleforth
Line and the Lines that trace from it, back from 1733 when Elias was
born, nut it is likely they were also descendants of the Cleveland Farndales.
That is exciting because we then know that Sir William Farndale (FAR00038)(about 1335 to about 1420), was the Vicar of Doncaster parish church between 1396 and 1402. Sir is simply the
title used by vicars at the time. We have guessed he might have lived between
about 1335-1420. He owned land for a period at Loversall just south of Doncaster. Of course the span between 1402 and 1512 means that there must
have been some generations between, but could this have been the same family. It
seems most likely that all living Farndales are descended from this group
living in or around Doncaster from about 1396 to 1564.
So the probable common ancestry of all those modern folk who are
descended from the Farndale family is:
1. Villeins moved
into Farndale the place in about 1230;
2. Individual people
started to move out of Farndale and use the name Farndale;
3. Families started
to emerge using the name of Farndale (increasingly without the ‘de’) more
permanently including the Sheriff
Hutton Line and the York 1 Line – these might well have included our direct ancestors (the
probability increases as the information improves);
4. The direct line
to modern Farndales focused around Doncaster from at least 1335 to about 1564;
5. Between 1564 and
1567, the family moved to the Skelton area in Cleveland;
6. From 1512, and
certainly from 1570, we know beyond doubt who our ancestors were;
7. Cleveland, and
particularly the areas of Skelton, Kirkleatham, Moorsholm, Loftus, Brotton and eventually Kilton become the home of the Farndales from 1564 to the Victorian age.
If that is right, then we trace our ancestry directly back to
1512, have some pretty good guesses about links to folk coming out of Farndale
from about 1330, and then know that they in turn descended from the villeins put into Farndale to assart and clear
the land to farm from about 1230. Before that our ancestors were plucked from the cauldron and primeval mass of
Bronze Age Beaker Folk, Iron Age Settlers, Brigantes, Roman, Anglo Saxons, and Scandinavians that had roamed the moors and Dales of Yorkshire since about
9,000 years BCE.
1572
Nicholas farndaile was buried at Kirkleatham
on 6 August 1572 (Kirkleatham
Parish Records). Nicholas Farndaile - died
about 1572 and buried at Kirkleatham, Yorkshire on 6 August 1572 at the age of
60.
(Extracted from the Yorkshire,
England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1837 (Parish
Register of Kirkleatham, 1559-1812, Vol 59; Author: Transcr & Ed: J Charlesworth; Publication
Year: 1917)
That is the only
sure fact we know about Nicholas. Everything else is an assessment of the wider
evidence to attempt to ascertain the most likely circumstances on a balance of
probabilities.
We also know that
Agnes Farnedaile, was buried 23 January 1586 at
Kirkleatham (England, Select Deaths and Burials,
1538-1991; England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991)
They were both buried at St
Cuthbert Church, Kirkleatham.
St Cuthbert’s Church in the village
of Kirkleatham was built in 1763 on the site of a much
earlier church, thought to have dated from 800 AD. The site of the church is
believed to have been used as a resting place for the body of St
Cuthbert on its journey to Durham, his final resting place.
The Turner Mausoleum, attached to the earlier church, was built in 1740,
by the renowned architect James Gibbs. St Cuthbert’s Church is a Grade I listed
building.
Our common ancestor
If we are correct in the analysis above, then
although there are some educated guesses in linking Nicholas to his
descendants, it seems a fair conclusion that Nicholas is the person to whom
most Farndales, and probably all, today can directly trace their ancestry. It
is probable that there is some link further back to William of Doncaster.
Once you have established your ancestor somewhere in this line, you will then
be able to trace yourself back to Nicholas.
Nicholas is probably my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great,
Great, Great, Great Grandfather.