Elias Farndale

c 1733 to 1783

The Kilton 1 Line

The Ampleforth 1 Line

FAR00147

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1733

I have not found a record of the birth of Elias. A previous review of Family Search suggests that he was born in or about 1733. That is plausible if he married at the age of 21. It seems likely that he was born at about that time.

Having reviewed the options for his parentage, it seems most likely that he was the son of William and Abigail (nee Gear) Farndale (FAR00130) of the Kilton 1 Line. William and Abigail married in September 1733, and it was not uncommon for children to be born shortly after a marriage at that time, so that a child was born within wedlock. This would also be consistent with the birth of siblings in 1735 and 1743. This part of the Kilton family were also a family who spread geographically to Kilton and Great Ayton, so it might not be surprising if Elias also left Kilton to move to Thirsk.

If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you will find some notes on the reason I have identified this lineage as most likely, and some alternatives which can’t be ruled out.

1754

Elias Farndale of Thirsk married Elizabeth Raper (1732 to 1776) of Topcliffe, at Thirsk, on 28 February 1754 (Thirsk PR). Elizabeth Raper was probably the person of that name baptised on 20 August 1732 at Topcliffe, daughter of William and Ann Raper. England, Marriages, 1538–1973.

1755

Elias Farndale Junior (1755 to 1825), (FAR00184), son of Elias Farndale, was baptised at Thirsk on 16 July 1755.

1777

Elizabeth Farndale died in 1777 at the age of 45 and was buried in Brotherton (St Edward the Confessor), Yorkshire. Brotherton is near Pontefract.

1783

Elias Farndale Senior died in 1783.

His son, Elias Farndale (FAR00184), appears to have moved to Yearsley from Thirsk sometime before 1785, so Elias Senior seems to have lived mainly at Thirsk, and it was his son Elias who later moved to Yearsley and Ampleforth.

Notes on Elias’ Lineage

Given that Elias and his son clearly used the Farndale spelling by 1754, it seems very probable that they were descendants of the individuals who left the dale of Farndale from the mid thirteenth century and settled around York, Sheriff Hutton and Doncaster where William Farndale was the chaplain immediately after the Black Death and then parish vicar from 1397 to 1403. The written record is at least for the moment, cold, after 1403 until William Farndale, son of Nicholas Farndale and Agnes Farndale, married Margaret Atkinson at St Mary of Magdalene, Campsall on 29 October 1564. This is about the time when parish records enable us to gain a better direct record of individuals. That family then emigrated north to the Cleveland area in or about 1567.

William’s son, George Farndale (1565 to 1606) was then the ancestor of a growing body of families that lived entirely in the Cleveland area, north of the North York Moors for the following centuries. Although there are some Farndells and other spellings living in southern England (especially Sussex and London) in the seventeenth century, it is very probable that these families were not related to the Farndales. That being the case the only Farndales in the written record from circa 1567 to 1754 when there is a record of Elias’ marriage to Elizabeth Raper, lived in Cleveland, particularly Kirkleatham, Skelton, Loftus, Moorsholm, Liverton, Kilton, Brotton, and Whitby.

The focus of the family history between 1567 to 1754 is therefore in Cleveland. It therefore seems likely that Elias’ family moved south from Cleveland back to the area of their original homeland. The most likely explanation is that Elias was descended from one of the Cleveland families. It therefore seems likely that Elias moved southward to the Thirsk area before his own descendants settled around Yearsley/Ampleforth.

Most likely lineage

It seems most likely that he might have been the son of William and Abigail (nee Gear) Farndale (FAR000130) of Kilton, who married in 1733. His birth record has not been found, but he could have been the first son born in about 1733. It was not uncommon for first children to be born very shortly after a marriage.

Alternatives

An alternative theory is that he was a son of William and Mary (nee Butrick) Farndale (FAR00125) of the Brotton 1 Line. William Farndale married Mary Butrick in 1724 and their son, George Farndale (FAR00144) was born in 1725 at Stainton, southwest of Middlesbrough and William Farndale (FAR00146) was probably born in Liverton or Brotton. That would reconcile with a window between say 1727 to 1735 during which time Elias might have been born to that family. However this semes a long window between the birth of the family and therefore less likely.

The other possibility is that this whole branch of the Farndale family were not related to the Cleveland Farndales. Given they ended up immediately south of Kirkdale and Farndale, our ancient ancestral lands, there is a possibility that they branched off from the main family at a much earlier date. The location might tend to support this theory, but the absence of many records of Farndale folk in the area from the sixteenth to the mid eighteenth century tends to suggest against this theory.

There was an Alice Farnill, daughter of Richard Farnill of Hutton Conyers, near Ripon, who was baptised on 27 February 1736. Since the spelling Farnill does appear in this family later, there is a possibility that Alice was Elias’ sister and Richard, his father. However by 1754 at his marriage, he was clearly using the Farndale spelling, and the location and spelling of this family doesn’t therefore seem to be the right path here.