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Elias Farndale FAR00147
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Who were Elias’ ancestors?
I can’t find a
record of Elias’ birth, and have therefore been unable
to identify his parents.
However I think we can make some considered guesses about
his ancestry and therefore the ancestry of the Ampleforth Farndales.
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.
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 Farndale who appear in the written record
for two hundred years between 1567 to 1754 lived 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. Perhaps it was he, or his direct
family, who moved southward to the Thirsk area before his own descendants
settled around Yearsley/Ampleforth.
Theory 1
My preferred theory is that he was a son of William 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. That would reconcile with a window between say 1727
to 1735 during which time Elias might have been born to that family.
This would make the most sense for the
origins of this significant section of the modern Farndale family. If we are correct then:
·
Elias Farndale was the son of William (b 1698) and Mary Farndale (FAR00125) of the
Brotton 1 Line.
·
William
Farndale was the son of Isabell ffarndaill (FAR00112)(b1676), possibly born out of marriage.
·
Isabell
Farndale was the daughter of Richard ffarndaill (FAR00092)(1650 to 1727), a yeoman of Brotton.
·
Richard
was probably the son of Rychards ffarnedayle
(1604 to 1685) and Emmie nee Nellice, who moved to Liverton
from Skelton.
Rychards was the son of George Farndale
(c1570 to 1606) and then William Farndale,
son of Nicholas Farndale and Agnes Farndale, and thence to the Farndale family who
lived in or around Doncaster from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries,
possibly descending from William Farndale, the Vicar of Doncaster. Thence that
family must have descended from the families of York, Sheriff Hutton and Doncaster, who were in turn the descendants of those who had
first left the dale of Farndale in the
thirteenth century. They in turn were descendants of the serfs of Farndale and
shared a history
associated with that place back to the Norman Conquest.
Theory 2
An alternative possibility is that he might
have been the son of William and Abigail (nee Gear) Farndale (FAR000130) of Kilton. His birth record has not
been found, but he could have been the first son born in about 1732. William’s
brother Elizabeth married Thomas Pickering which might link up with Elizabeth
Raper’s family link to the Pickering family.
Theory 3
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.
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.
The working assumption is that he was
the son of William and Mary (nee Butrick) Farndale (FAR00125) of the
Brotton 1 Line.
1754
Elias Farndale of Thirsk married
Elizabeth Raper (1732 to 1776) of Topcliffe, at Thirsk, on 28 February 1754 (Thirsk PR). Elizabeth Raper was born in 1732 in
Topcliffe to 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 Eliza who later moved to Yearsley
and Ampleforth.