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Farmer of Coxwold |
Elias Farnill/Farndale FAR00184 |
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1755
Elias Farndale, son of Elias and
Elizabeth (nee Raper) Farndale (FAR00147), was baptised in the
Anglican Church at Thirsk on 16 July 1755 (Thirsk Parish Records). His birth
date was 23 April 1755.
1786
Elias Farndale appears to have moved
from Thirsk to Yearsley (about 20km to the southwest of Thirsk – see map below),
sometime before 1785, say 1780.
1785
Elias Farnill married Dorothy Heseltine
(1757 to 1840), daughter of Geoff Heseltine on 14 June 1785 by banns at Ampleforth. England,
Marriages, 1538–1973. He would have been aged about 30.
1786
Ann Farnill/Farnell, born around
Ampleforth in 1786 might have been a child of Elias Farnill and Dorothy.
1788
By 1788 they lived at Windgate farm. This may be a reference to Wildon Hill Farm,
about 2km west of Coxwold. But from the evidence below, I think Windgate Farm was probably around Yearsley. There is a Windyridge Farm there.
William Farnill (or Farnell) (FAR00220A), son of Elias and
Dorothy Farnell was born at Windgate Hill Farm,
Coxwold on 21 September 1788.
William Farnell, born Coxwold son of
Elias Farndale and Dorothy Farndell (nee Heseltine – spelt Hessledine
here) at Windgate Hill, Coxwold, Farmer. Baptised 26 October
1788. Born on 21 October 1788. This is probably a reference to Windyridge Farm at Yearsley..
So was Elias a farmer in Yearsley in
1788.
1790
Jethro Farndale (FAR00218), son of Elias and
Dorothy Farndill, was born on 12 December 1790 at Ampleforth, and baptised on 16 January 1791
(Ampleforth PR).
1791
William Farnell, born in Yorkshire in
1791, may have been a son of Elias and Dorothy.
1793
Elias Farndale (FAR00224), son of Elisha and
Dorothy Farndale, was born at Ampleforth
on 17 February 1793 (Ampleforth PR).
1797
Richard Farnell (1797 to 1876), born on
16 August 1797 in Yearsley, may have been a son of Elias and Dorothy Farndale.
1798
There is a Land
Tax record against Elias Farndale made pursuant to an Act of Parliament
for granting an aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain
for the service of the year 1798. The sum of £1 11s 6d was paid by Elias
Farndale as the occupier, with a Mr Fairfax shown as the proprietor. Given the
proximity of Yearsley to Ampleforth and the date, this was presumably Elias.
Some time later, in 1835, an Edward Ewbank was
seeking to prove his entitlement to land and he gave
evidence that the Ewbank land extended to a boundary with the ground of Elisha
Farndale in Yearsley by a small stream.
Yorkshire Gazette,18 April
1835: Mr Edward Ewbank,
of Gilling, proved that his grandfather formerly rented the Gilling Warren, and
that his jurisdiction extended over the lands now occupied by the appellants.
He remembered a stone, having G on one side and Y on the other, which was put down
26 years ago, in the place of an older one, and which, along with some others
cover formed the boundary between the parishes. William Heseltine, 66 years of
age, was born at Gilling, and had lived there for all his life, his father had
a warren under Lord Fairfax, on whose estate there were three; he had received
information from his father respecting the boundaries; they were also separated
from Elisha Farndale by a small stream of water; his ground was in
Yearsley, and the witness’s in Gilling. John
Trousdale, aged 68, had known Gilling 52 years last Martinmas, and knew the
enclosures of the appellants; he had cut turf there for the rector of Gilling;
had never heard of the perambulation 38 years since, by the Yearsley people.
John Rymer, who had known Gilling 39 years; and John Clark, who had lived with
the rector of Gilling, 53 years ago, corroborated the account of the former
witnesses...
1831
Elias Farndal
died in or about 1831, and was buried on 3 January
1831 at Stillingfleet (south of York). Another record
also records Elias Farndale’s death at Stillngfleet, but buried on 22 August 1830. He would have been 76. There
is a suggestion that he died on 24 March 1829.
Or Elias (Elisha) Farndale died on 24
March 1829.