William Farndale (Farndaile)
c 1539 to 24 January 1606
The Doncaster
Kirkleatham Skelton Line
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The evidence explored on the page of William’s father, Nicholas (FAR00059), explains the
analysis of the known facts about this family and the most probable narrative
of events. If we are right that this is the same William Farndale who died on
24 January 1606 in Skelton, then this explains his move from the Doncaster area to Skelton area.
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William and Margaret (nee
Atkinson) Farndale The couple who married at St Mary Magdalene Church in Campsall
north of Doncaster, and who emigrated to Cleveland and were buried in
Skelton. A narrative of the life of William and Margaret |
1539
If William
Farndell married at Campsall,
north of Doncaster
in 1564, say he was aged 25 when he married, then he was born about 1539
probably in the Doncaster area, perhaps in or around Campsall.
He was probably
the son of Nicholas Farndale (FAR00059) and Agnes Farndale (FAR00060).
If that is right
then his father, Nicholas, would have been 27 when he was born and his mother,
Agnes, 23.
1564
William Farndell married
Margaret Atkinson at Campsall on 29 October 1564.
In the
transcripts for St Mary Magdalene for this marriage, there is only one marriage
on 29 October 1564 between a Willelmo ffarndell and a Margreta Atkinson. No further information is given in the
transcript and only the two names are given.
There is an indexation which records the name as Starndell, but the
extract is below and the discrepancy is likely to rest with the later transcriber.
This entry is believed to record the marriage between William Farndale and
Margaret Atkinson.
The date appears
in the line above the blue cross and then: Willemo ffarndell et magreta
atkinson, nup (married)
I have seen a
suggestion by another researcher of a marriage of William to Margaret Kyddall
who was born at Skelton in
1539 and who was the daughter of William Kyddall (1510 to 1549) and Margaret
Dalyson (1510 to 1593). I have not seen this record.
The extract is
from the parish records of St Mary Magdalene Church at Campsall. This
material is held at Doncaster Archives Reference GB 197 P15. The collection
includes Registers of Baptisms 1563-1979, Registers of Marriages 1564-1990,
Registers of Burials 1563-1974, and other deeds. The township account book
listed at P15/6/1/1 was added to this collection in September 2010. The
collection is divided into eleven series as follows: P15/1: Registration,
Church Services, and Worship P15/2: Incumbent P15/3: Churchwardens P15/4:
Vestry and Parochial Church Council P15/5: Auxiliary Organisations P15/6:
Township P15/7: Charities and Trusts P15/8: Schools P15/9: Statutory Deposits
P15/10: Miscellaneous Records P15/11: Other Records [Deeds etc] Access
Information Open Private (Church of England) Access will be granted to any
accredited member of Doncaster Libraries Related Material Also available: Index
: Bapt 1563-1850 Marr 1563-1837 Bur 1563-1871. The parish library, a collection
of 126 volumes from the period 1573 to 1719 now deposited at Doncaster
Archives, is the subject of M Gallico, 'A Catalogue of the Library of Campsall
Church', (unpublished MA dissertation, University of Sheffield, 1980). A copy
is available in the departmental library of Doncaster Archives.
William and
Margaret married at St. Mary Magdalene's church, Campsall.
May2006.jpg)
The historian
John Paul Davis wrote of a connection between Robin Hood and
the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene at Campsall. The
fifteenth century ballad entitled, A
Gest of Robyn Hode suggests that Robin Hood built a chapel in Barnsdale that
he dedicated to Mary Magdalene
I made a chapel in Bernysdale,
That seemly is to se,
It is of Mary Magdaleyne
And thereto wolde I be’.
Davis surmised
that there is only one church dedicated to Mary Magdalene within what might
reasonably be considered to have been the medieval forest of Barnsdale, being
the church at Campsall.
The church was built in the late eleventh century by Robert de Lacy, 2nd
Baron of Pontefract.
A local legend
suggests that Robin Hood and Maid Marion were married at the church of Saint
Mary Magdalene, at Campsall.
Since Maid Marion was a much later addition to the Robin Hood legend, it is a
fictional idea, but the story may add some romance to the marriage of William
and Margaret. According to these versions of the Story, the marriage to Maid
Marion was supposed to have been shortly after Richard I’s pardon. Robin Hood’s
death was given to be 18 November 1247. However the placing of the legends in
time varies enormously between tellings of the stories at different times.
Before we stray
too much into the world of fiction, we can perhaps say that William and
Margaret married in the same church as reputed to have been Robin Hood’s
wedding venue, about three hundred years later.
1564 to
1567
Between 1564 and 1567, the
whole family appears to have moved north of the North York Moors, to
Kirkleatham.
Between 1564 and 1567, the family moved to the Skelton
/Kirkleatham area.
It seems likely that William’s wife, Margaret’s family, the Atkinsons, came
from Wilton near Kirkleatham.
William’s sister Jean married Richard Fairly, a family of some pedigree from Kirkleatham,
but this was probably following the move there. For whatever reason, they seem
to have moved from the Doncaster
area to Kirkleatham.
1567 to
1573
They then lived
in Kirkleatham,
which was perhaps more the Atkinson and Fairly home than the Farndale home
before then.
William’s three
children were born in Kirkleatham between 1568 and 1573.
William and
Margaret’s family might have been:
Jane Farndale,( FAR00066) (1568 to 1596)
George Farndale, (FAR00067) born about
1570?
Eln (Eleanor?) Farndale, (FAR00068) born about 1573?
(Kirkleatham PR
and IGI) [check if birth records or surmised from marriages]
Skelton
They may have
moved to Skelton,
which is only five miles away, and part of the same parish at some stage. Or
maybe they continued to live in Kirkleatham,
and William might have been buried at St John’s church in the nearby Skelton,
as the main parish church for the area.
1572
William’s father,
Nicholas died in Kirkleatham in 1572.
1573
Margaret
[Atkinson?] died in 1573 at Skelton
aged 34, after 9 years of marriage (this needs to be checked). So
the fact that Margaret died in Skelton is further evidence to support the logic
explained on Nicholas Farndale’s page.
1586
William’s mother
Agnes died in Kirkleatham in 1586.
1606
William Farndale died on 24 January 1606, aged 67. He was buried
on 25 January 1606 at St John the Baptist Church in Skelton. (Martin Farndale found this but I
need to recheck this – Skelton
History Group records start 1698 – Teeside
Archives for earlier records for Skelton-in-Cleveland from 1512)