The Farndale Story

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The Farndale Story The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages The 84 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

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A Journey through time, following in the footsteps of one family

When Nicholas de Farndale started to clear the forested valley of Farndale in the early thirteenth century, he brought the agricultural skills of his ancestors, who were almost certainly the families of the relatively stable lands around Kirkdale, a few miles to the south. As his ancestors worked on those lands for a millennium through Roman, Anglo Saxon and Scandinavian influences, they witnessed momentous events in the shaping of a national history, occurring in the immediate vicinity of their home.

Nicholas’ descendants were often unruly, and many were outlawed and excommunicated for poaching in the Royal Forest of Pickering. Those who took the Farndale name to define themselves left Farndale and found new homes in the North York Moors and across the Vale of York. A merchant family settled in York. Another family settled in the heart of the Neville lands at Sheriff Hutton and fought with the armies of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, before witnessing the Wars of the Roses from the epicentre of influence. After the Black Death, William Farndale became a chaplain in Doncaster, where he became the parish vicar by the end of the fourteenth century. His descendants and the ancestors of the modern family were focused at Campsall and Barnsdale forest by the end of the sixteenth century, the place where the legends of Robin Hood were written, inspired by ancestral outlaws of the forest.

In the mid sixteenth century, the family moved north into the Bruce lands around Skelton and the family became settled across Cleveland. The lovely rural village of Kilton became the home for generations of the family, and others settled in the bustling port of Whitby, from where Giles Farndale was press ganged to fight in the Spanish Main, while John Farndale sailed in colliers on which James Cook, explorer of new worlds, was mate. Another Whitby family were merchant mariners who experienced many epic adventures at sea.

As the industrial age hit Cleveland the family were drawn into new opportunities and struggles and John Farndale write extensively about the transition into scientific and industrial innovation. The family worked in the ironstone mines and in new heavy industries, and moved to the dark satanic mills of the textile industry in South Yorkshire. Experiencing the trials of new urban lives, John William Farndale was the youngest member of the Jarrow March of 1936.

Two Joseph Farndales each became influential Chief Constables of Birmingham and Bradford, between them unearthing Fenian dynamite plots and inventing the police box.

Meantime the family spread across a new empire to Australia, Ontario, Newfoundland, Alberta and New Zealand, and took the family pioneering genes across the world.

The family experienced the excitements and the horrors of wars. John George Farndale wrote letters home from the heights of Sebastopol, through the Crimean War. Those male members of the family born at the end of the nineteenth century were nearly all destined for their places in the trenches of the First World War and many served in the Second World War.

The Farndale Story is a unique history of a single family and its path through two thousand years of British History. It is also a shared story with countless other ordinary folk who trod the path of British history. It is both the particular story of one family, and an everyman story of many.

The Time Traveller’s Handbook

When you first visit the Farndale Story, please read the Time Traveller’s Handbook before using the Matrix for the first time.

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I suggest that you start by reading the Prologue, at the top of the matrix. The Numbered Stories in thirty three Acts take you on the main journey into the past. You’re best to read them in the numbered order, starting with the Prologue and then the first Act. However more rebellious readers can travel through time in a more random order if that is what you prefer.

The Explainers tell of historical factors, events, and places which influenced our family’s story. They provide a little more depth as you visit different eras of time. The Thirty Objects and Places take you on a geographical tour, and provide directions if you have the chance to visit the lands where the Farndale Story played out. You will come into contact with places and objects that will put you in direct contact with the family through time. You might find the geographical guide helpful, which will enable you to plan a route. The Farndale Folk are a few of our ancestors waiting to be introduced to you, to further enhance your journey through time. All these pages are full of hyperlinks. These will take you to the underlying research if you would like to explore in more depth, or check the source material. Every member of the Farndale family has his or her own webpage. The hyperlinks will take you to individual family members’ records; to family trees; to further information within the wider website; and sometimes to links outside the website or source material.

A recent technical innovation is a tool available through Google called Notebook LM. The tool uses artificial intelligence to make complex information quickly accessible. One of its tools is to turn complex research into very listenable podcasts. The AI is pretty good, though does not always pick up the precise nuances, and it does not replace the underlying research. Nevertheless, it provides a useful introduction to each Act of the Farndale history. These podcasts are AI generated from the research of this website. They are not external sources of information. They provide quickly digestible summaries of each stage of this research. Please don’t rely on the podcasts, which are intended to help with the ways to access the underlying research, but use them as introductions before you read the detail which is provided in the Farndale Story itself. The real story is to be found in the written text through the various webpages of the Farndale Family Website.

After reading the Prologue, scroll down to the early thirteenth century to find the first Act of the story.

The Time Traveller’s Matrix

The Time Traveller’s Handbook The Guide to getting the best use of this matrix for future reference				Prologue – Moors, Dales and Vales An overview guide and introduction to the three distinct landscapes which defined our history After reading the Prologue, scroll down seven rows to Act 1 – The Cradle		Glossary An alphabetical list of words and terms which you might come across during your travels, which are explained here	A Journey through the ancestral lands Some preliminary orientation if you visit the area		Everyman A story shared with countless other families who travelled the path of British history.
				Kirkdale Cave A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home	Kirkdale Cave The start of the Victorian discovery of modern scientific method
	Star Carr The richest Mesolithic suite in Britain, a few miles south of Scarborough, on the edge of the ancient Lake Pickering, only 30 km from Farndale	The Ryedale Windy Pits Underground caves, only 15 km from Farndale, which were the home of the Bronze Age Beaker Folk	Roulston Scar A massive Iron Age promontory Hill Fort only 20 km from Farndale	2 – The Primeval Swamp The Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, and Mesolithic evidence of the people of the immediate vicinity to Farndale
Introduction to Kirkdale and its Minster For those particularly interested in Kirkdale, this introductory page is the place to start		Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) The Roman Regional Capital of the lands around Kirkdale	Hovingham A Roman Villa on palatial scale just south of Kirkdale	3 – Roman Kirkdale 71 CE to 580 CE The lands which would become the lands of Kirkdale and Chirchebi in Roman and Pagan times	Beadlam A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the heart of our ancestral lands	Eboracum (York) The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor	The Roman Arm Purse A Roman arm purse which can be seen in the British Museum in London today, found in about the second century CE by a cairn overlooking Farndale, which will transport you back 2,000 years
	A place of wild beasts and men who lived like wild beasts Bede’s description of the wilderness of Farndale as a place of dragons and wild beasts The village and church of Lastingham, with its Norman crypt	Lastingham 653 CE The founding of a Celtic Christian monastery by Cedd, 2 km from the entrance to Farndale	Synod of Whitby 664 CE The momentous agreement at Whitby, 30 km northeast of Farndale, which resolved incompatibilities between Roman and Celtic Christian traditions, and placed Britain onto the European stage	4 – Anglo Saxon Kirkdale 560 CE to 793 CE Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Anglo Saxon Period	Anglo Saxon Kirkdale Kirkdale from its founding in about 685 CE to the beginning of the Scandinavian period in about 800 CE	Eoforwic (York) Deirian and Northumbrian York, a political, cultural and educational Hub on the European stage The Deira The people who dominated our ancestral lands	Alcuin and the birth of modern education The world of Ecgbert and Aethelbert, successors to Bede, and their pupil Alcuin, who took York’s powerhouse of knowledge to the court of Charlemagne to pioneer the European educational system	Carlin How and Saxon Witches The burial ground of a Saxon princess who lay for thirteenth centuries overlooking the Hill of Witches where the Craggs line of Farndales would later make their home	The Kirkdale Saxon Artefacts Ornate sarcophagus lids and Saxon artefacts to be found in Kirkdale Minster and embedded into its walls which will transport you to the Eighth century CE
		Jorvik Museum York A reconstructed journey into Scandinavian Yorkshire and a glimpse of Scandinavian objects which tells its story	Orm Gamalson The powerful figure at the heart of the aristocracy, who rebuilt Kirkdale and put our ancestral lands firmly onto the national political stage	5 – Scandinavian Kirkdale 793 CE to 1066 Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Scandinavian Period	Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian Kirkdale Kirkdale in the Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian period from about 800 CE to 1066, with a brief summary of its history through to 1500	Jorvik (York) The Scandinavian centre of northern England	The Kirkdale Sundial A unique treasure whose secrets transport us into the world of the eleventh century upon which you can stare today, imagining direct ancestors who did the same a thousand years ago	Beowulf The poem which takes us into the Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian mindset
	Norman Domination Regime Change	House Mowbray The descendants of Nigel D’Aubigny to whom our ancestors owed their allegiance in the twelfth century ‘Bending the knee’	House Stuteville The descendants of Robert de Stuteville to whom our ancestors owed their allegiance in the eleventh and then from the late twelfth century	6 – Game of Thrones 1066 to 1200 The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest	Rievaulx Abbey This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154	Rievaulx Abbey The breathtaking abbey ruins that must have been held in astonished awe by our forebears when the abbey broke through the soil of Ryedale, adjacent to Farndale, in only a couple of decades before it started to take control of swathes of those lands	House Brus The baronial Yorkshire family from whom later Scottish Kings would derive and who dominated the early history of our later Cleveland home	The Royal Line and the Noble Houses The relationship between the Royal Dynasties of England and the Noble Houses who directly influenced our family history
	Medieval Farming Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest	A Drive through Farndale A journey to places in Farndale which featured in a 1301 tax register, marking out the geography of the place our ancestors settled	The Farndale Rim A look down into Farndale to take in its scale and landscape, from the place where the Roman Purse was dropped If you have the energy, a hike to Middle Head, the Lord of the Rings land of Midelhovet, where Edmund the Hermit once dwelled	1 – The Cradle Thirteenth Century Farndale Clearing the dale to build our new home After the Prologue, Start Here	Nicholas de Farndale c1230 to c1310 Perhaps the earliest identifiable individual of the ancestral story, who cleared and then settled in Farndale	Simon The Miller of Farndale c1264 to c1335 The wealthiest tenant in Farndale in 1301	The Story of Farndale to 1500 The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500, to accompany the family story	The First Family Tree A model which relies on extensive medieval evidence, to suggest the most probable family tree of the earliest ancestors of the Farndales
	Pickering Parish Church Glance up at a remarkable medieval mural, which includes archers who might remind us of our poacher ancestors	Pickering Castle The sombre Norman castle of Pickering, where you will be taken to the law court where our ancestors were fined, imprisoned, outlawed and excommunicated	The Great Yorkshire Forest Drive A drive through Dalby Forest, the modern Pickering Forest, where our forebears took game in contravention of forest laws, or were caught and punished by the verderers and regarders of the forest Poaching in Pickering Forest A study of the nature of poaching in Pickering Forest	7 – Poachers of Pickering Forest Tales of a surprisingly large number of our forebears who were poachers in Pickering Forest. Their archery skills would foretell the legends of Robin Hood and the English army at Agincourt	Richard and Thomas of Farndale Two brothers who were excommunicated for poaching and contempt of the authority of the church in 1316	Roger Milne of Farndale c1265 to c1340 Roger slew a soar in Pickering Forest in 1293	Robert de Farndale c1266 to c1340 Robert was fined for poaching in Pickering Forest in 1293 and 1332	William Smyth of Farndale c1285 to c1360 William was the poacher of a hind and a calf in 1330 and repeat offender in 1336	John Farndale c1365 to c1450 John took poaching to a new scale when he was involved in a significant cattle and horse rustling expedition in 1384
		Danby Danby at the turn of the fourteenth century	De Willelmo de Farndale c1265 to c1335 A relatively wealthy tenant who had left Farndale for Danby in the North York Moors but adopted its name	8 – The Pathfinders Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places	De Johanne de Farndale c1273 to c1345 John left Farndale for Egton and Rosedale and was probably the ancestor of those who settled in York
The Shambles The street of the Medieval Butchers	9 –The Merchants of York The Merchants of York York 1066 to 1500 A History of York after the Norman Conquest	Johannes de Farnedale c1303 to c1372 A Saddler made freeman of York in 1363	Johannes de Farndall c1334 to c1405 A freeman of York in 1397 through patrimony from his father	Johannes Fernedill c1352 to c1425 John Farndale, and his brothers Henry and William, were archers and men at arms called to fight in Scotland in 1389 John was later a butcher made freeman of York in 1408	Sheriff Hutton Church The Church of St Helen and the Holy Cross and the Chapel of St Nicholas, the heart of the Neville lands, and place of the alabaster effigy of the young son of Richard III House Neville This history of the family who influenced the Wars of the Roses in whose seat our ancestors lived	The History of Sheriff Hutton to 1500 A history of Sheriff Hutton which will take you to the lands of the Nevilles and Richard III during the Wars of the Roses Plantagenet rivalry The dynastic struggles of the Plantagenets, leading to the Wars of the Roses, the events of which our ancestors were direct witnesses	10 – Medieval Warfare Tales of archers and men at arms who fought with Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V and an observation post in the home of the Nevilles and Richard III from which to view the Wars of the Roses	Richard Farndale c 1357 to 20 December 1435 A veteran soldier of the armies of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V who fought in the French and Scottish Wars	William Farndale c 1332 to 1397 A chaplain, who was pardoned for killing John of Spaldington and later established his family in Sheriff Hutton, where he was a person of some wealth
	St Mary Magdalene Church, Campsall The church in Barnsdale forest of which the literary character of the Middle Ages, Robin Hood, wrote I made a chapel in Bernysdale, That seemly is to se, It is of Mary Magdaleyne, And therto would I be. Nearby sites associated with Robin Hood including Robin Hood’s Well at the side of the A1	Medieval Doncaster and its minster The Victorian Parish church (later Minster) of Doncaster rebuilt in 1853, but on the site of the earlier Parish church of which William Farndale was chaplain and later vicar in the years after the Black Death	Nicholaus de ffarnedale 1332 To 1400 Nicholas paid the 4d Poll Tax of 1379 which led to the Peasant’s Revolt	Sir William Farndale C1330 to c1415 The Chaplain and Vicar of Doncaster, who held lands at Loversall, of whom we have significant records	11 – The Vicar of Doncaster The Family of William Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster	The History of Doncaster to 1500 The History of pre industrial Doncaster from its Roman inception as Danum to the end of the sixteenth century	Loversall The history of a small village and church just south of Doncaster, where William Farndale held land	Campsall and Barnsdale Forest The history of the village of Campsall north of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century	Robin Hood The legend of Robin Hood explored for its Yorkshire roots, and the Farndale connection with the legends, first as the class of poachers who gave rise to the inspiration, and later their fifteenth century descendants who lived in the place where the stories emerged
			Nicholas and Agnes Farndale The most likely paternal and maternal ancestors of modern Farndales, who died in Kirkleatham having probably emigrated with their family into Cleveland	12 – Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in Cleveland	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.	Kirkleatham A history of Kirkleatham and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland	Skelton A history of Skelton and its old church. The Farndales arrived in Moorsholm in the Parish of Skelton in about 1588 and lived there through the tumultuous years of the Civil War
Charles Farndale 1838 to 1914 Charles took over the farming of Kilton Hall Farm where he farmed 577 acres George Farndale 1876 to 1970 George was the last of the Kilton Farmers	William Farndale 1760 to 1846 William was a farmer of Kilton and a merchant of wood, rods, coals, salting bacon. Martin Farndale 1798 to 1885 Martin was a farmer at Kilton Hall Farm of 600 acres	Brotton Old Graveyard Three generations of Kilton Farndales in one place. A side trip to nearby Boosbeck and Skelton take you to the gravestones two later generations. Take in Wensley and you’ll find two more recent generations. Seven generations of the family in one short drive	Johnny Farndale 1724 to 1807 Old Farndale of Kilton, the patriarch of the Kilton Farndales, regaler of smuggler tales, alum merchant and farmer, of whom the Squire once said “When you are gone, there will never be such another Johnny Farndale”	13 – The Farmers of Kilton The First Hub The story of the Kilton Farndales, a family who dominated a village, since lost to time, over two centuries	Kilton, the Lost Village The story of the lost village of Kilton and its sylvan landscape Kilton A journey around modern Kilton, of farms, a ruined castle and a small village of Kilton Thorpe to capture the essence of the two century home of Farndales	The Smugglers of Old Saltburn Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears	John Andrew 1757 to 1835 The Smuggler Chief The grandfather of Martin Farndale’s wife Elizabeth Taylor, no doubt in league with the c17th Farndales. When the local folk whispered Andrew’s Cow has calved, everyone knew the goods had arrived. The wealthy John Andrew later became master of the Cleveland Hunt	Cats Nab, Old Saltburn Have fish and chips in the Ship Inn, and you will be in the home of John Andrew’s smuggling trade, once connected by an underground passage to the white house on the hill where my great x3 grandfather lived	14 – Spreading out from Brotton and Loftus The Second Hub The story of a substantial division of the family who spread widely across Cleveland and beyond from Kilton, Brotton and Loftus
Giles Farndale 1713 to 1742 Press ganged into the Royal Navy, Giles served on HMS Experiment in the Spanish Main during the War of Jenkins Ear where he died and was buried at sea	John Farndale 1709 to 1790 John Farndale served alongside James Cook, discoverer of the Southern Continent, on colliers out of Whitby	James Cook 1728 to 1779 The association of James Cook with Cleveland, Whitby, Great Ayton, the Farndale ancestral lands, and individuals of the Farndale Story	The History of Whitby to 1850 A history of Whitby at the height of its maritime power in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, home to several large Farndale families. A look back to the Anglo Saxon history of Whitby in the time of Celtic and Roman Christianity	15 – The Mariners of Whitby The Third Hub The story of the Whitby Farndales who settled in the bustling port of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	A Perspective of Whitby The place of Dracula inspiration where many Farndales have been buried, provides a vantage point over Whitby, and its maritime activity	John Chistopher Farndale 1802 to 1837 The story of the merchant master mariners, John Christopher Farndale Senior and his sons William and John and their epic maritime adventures around the English coast, to the Baltic, Russia and Scandinavia and to Biscay, the site of a tragic disaster	Yearsley The home from the early eighteenth century of a large section of our family	16 – Return to the Vale of York The Fourth Hub The Ampleforth Farndales who returned south of the North York Moors to Yearsley near Ampleforth
Victorian Education The education of our forebears Children The life of children in seventeenth century to Victorian Yorkshire	Agricultural change How agricultural practices changed over time	Poverty Our family history includes experiences of high infant mortality in Victorian times, often extreme poverty, and struggle Health The evolution of medical care	Ambition A story of aspiration and achievement	17 – Transition to the Industrial Revolution John Farndale, my great x2 uncle, was a prolific writer who captured the essence of the late eighteenth century and its transition into the Industrial Revolution. The family’s history provides a direct pathway to experience these years of momentous change	John Farndale 1791 to 1878 The Author A man of sphinxian complexity who wrote extensively and has passed down stories of the family and of change in early Victorian Yorkshire	Saltburn by the Sea, Victorian new town John Farndale focused much of his writing on the new seaside town of Saltburn by the Sea, built beside the Old Saltburn of smuggling repute. It was a place of Victorian optimism and inspiration, driven by the arrival of the railways and the richness of Cleveland’s ironstone deposits	Alum The alum trade in Cleveland Service Opportunities for work as servants in households	Huntcliff, Saltburn by the Sea Find a vantage point on the towering Hunt Cliffs to look down over Saltburn and Cat Nab, and the alum mines. It was here, John tells us, that when a French Napoleonic ship threatened out to sea, a band of local women dressed in red along the cliffs to make the French believe that an army of redcoats was ready to welcome any attack
Ironstone Mining The engine of Cleveland’s Victorian development was its mineral supply, particularly its ironstone. Individuals in the Farndale Story worked in an extensive network of mines throughout the area	18 – The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland	Kilton Mine The ruined site of the Kilton mine		19 – Dark Satanic Mills The many families who lived in Leeds, Bradford, Coatham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Stockton through the period of industrial transition			20 – The Southerners The story of the folk who left Yorkshire and travelled to London and elsewhere in the south of Britain
			Joseph Farndale CBE KPM 1864 to 1954 The Chief Constable of Bradford who pioneered the use of fingerprints, invented the police box, and played a key role in Bradford’s evolution at the start of the twentieth century	Joseph Farndale 1842 to 1901 The Chief Victorian Constable of Birmingham who foiled a Jack the Ripper Hoax and played a key role in uncovering the Ledsam Dynamite Conspiracy	21 – The Victorian Policemen To contrast with the medieval outlaw poachers of Pickering Forest, the story of the law makers including two influential Chief Constables and the real Inspector Foyle	Thomas Henry Farndale 1899 to 1964 An inspector of crime during the Second World War The real Inspector Foyle
22 – Great Ayton The story of the multiple generations of Farndales who made Great Ayton their home	Joseph Farndale 1795 to 1877 The father of a large Great Ayton family, who was a cartwright	Great Ayton A visit to Great Ayton where many members of the family lived, and a side trip to the James Cook Monument	Matthew Farndale 1793 to 1884 Matthew and Hannah Farndale and their daughters Mary and Elizabeth embarked on a 14 week voyage to Melbourne to establish a new lineage in Australia	23 – The Australians The story of Matthew Farndale and his two daughters who emigrated to Melbourne during the Australian Gold Rush and settled at Birregurra, who have left a wealth of descendants, though none still bearing the Farndale name. The story of another Australian family of the 1960s		24 – The Ontarians Upon his return from the Crimean War, John George Farndale took his family to Ontario in 1870. At about the same time Samuel Kirk Farndale took his family to Ontario		Pioneers The pioneering spirit that dominated the family’s story from the mid nineteenth century
		The Lindsays The story of the Scottish Lindsays, Catherine Lindsay’s family	Martin and Catherine Farndale The parents of a family of twelve born on a moorland farm, who soon spread across Britain and North America	25 – The Farndales of Tidkinhow The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow and the adventures of twelve siblings who lived in a house that wasn’t big enough for them all	Tidkinhow The moorland farm where a family of twelve grew up	The Craggs Hall Farndales The story of Matthew Farndale and his family of Craggs Hall Farm	The Railwayman The story of John Farndale and his family who moved to Loftus
	John Martin Farndale 1886 to 1966 The grocer who emigrated to Newfoundland	26 – The Newfoundlanders In 1910 John Martin and Bessie Farndale emigrated to Newfoundland and established a grocery business in St John’s. His son joined the Artillery in World War 2 and lived to be the oldest Farndale		The Bakers of Highfields The Story of the Baker Family of Highfields A portal into another family, the ancestors of Peggy Baker, who married Alfred Farndale	Alfred Farndale and Peggy Baker The World War 1 veteran, Alfred Farndale married the independently minded Peggy Baker in 1929 and embarked immediately for the Prairie of Alberta. Defeated by the Great Depression the family returned to Yorkshire where they built a new life from the 1930s	Atlantic crossings at the time of Titanic The story of five brothers and two sisters who crossed the Atlantic in the age of Titanic to emigrate to Canada	27 – The Albertans The story of the Farndales of Tidkinhow who left Yorkshire for a new life on the Prairies
		Jim Farndale 1885 to 1967 A pioneer who played an important role in the construction of the Hoover Dam in Nevada and later became a US Senator	The Hoover Dam The story of the Hoover Dam, with which Jim Farndale was associated	28 – The Americans The family of Jim Farndale, US Senator, who settled in Nevada and California. The descendants of George William Farndale who settled in Illinois and Wisconsin. The family of John Alan Farndale, of California		29 – The New Zealanders The New Zealand pioneers, descendants of Ronald Martin Farndale of Masterton, and of Wilf Farndale, of Gisborne	Ronald Martin Farndale 1919 to 1974 Captured at the Battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa, Ronald emigrated to New Zealand where his descendants still live	Wilf Farndale 1911 to 1985 An aircraft engineer in Bristol, Wilf emigrated to New Zealand
30 - Newcastle and South Shields The many members of the family who settled in South Shields and Jarrow	John William Farndale (“Newcastle Johnny”) 1919 to 1986 The Youngest Jarrow Marcher in 1936	The Jarrow March 1936 The story of the Jarrow March of 1936, of which Johnny Farndale, was the youngest member		31 – The Methodists William Farndale was a railway porter who became a presbyterian missionary and his son, William became President of the Methodist Conference in 1947, leading a ‘back to the soil’ campaign	Religion and ideas Exploring the role of religions of various denominations and the evolution of intellectual ideas on the Farndale Story	Rev Dr William Edward Farndale 1881 to 1966 The influential Primitive Methodist who became head of the Methodist Church and Moderator of the Free Church Council shortly after the Second World War
	The Crimean War The Crimean War through the perspective of John Farndale, who took part in the long campaign	The First World War Soldiers The story of the many soldiers from the family who took up arms in the First World War The First World War The context of the First World War to the Farndale Story	The Second World War soldiers, sailors and airmen The story of the Farndales who took up arms in the Second World War The Second World War Soldiers The context of the Second World War	32 – The Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen An exploration of the many military members of the family, and their stories	John George Farndale 1836 to 1909 A Victorian infantryman who provided us with an eye witness account of the Crimean War before taking his family to a new life in Ontario	Bernard Farndale 1912 to 1944 An airman shot down over Denmark after a bombing raid, and secretly buried by the Danish resistance The story of the shooting down of Lancaster ME 718	General Sir Martin Farndale KCB 1929 to 2000 The original author of this genealogy who led the British Army and Northern Command of NATO in the crucial years of the Cold War	The Farndale Cocktail An explosive blend of Farndale firepower
			William Leng Farndale 1876 to 1932 Brewer and Northumberland Hussar of Rothbury, Northumberland	33 – The Modern Family A final chapter which explores the twentieth century family and reflects on how the family has spread its wings in the more recent years of the twenty first century	John Thomas Farndale 1854 to 1930 The Bank Manager of Thirsk	Wilfred Farndale 1910 to 1965 Wilfred was brought up in the community of Sir Titus Salt’s Saltaire Mills. He was an accomplished Cricketer who played with some Yorkshire greats and a social influencer in his work as a Sanitary Officer	George William Farndale A Comic Actor who joined the Yorkshire Mummers
			The Known Unknowns The family history is remarkably complete. We explore here where it has been necessary to rely on the most probable narrative where certainty has been impossible	Epilogue - inspiration from our back story What we can take from our journey through two thousand years of history Finish Here	Perspective Laying our Ancestors Back in the sun The genealogist’s ambition	Perspective Exploring the Cave Peering through chambers to our ghostly beginnings
	Telling the story of Our Female Ancestors The historical record is not properly representative of our female ancestors. As a historian it is important to found our narrative on the evidence which exists. However by reflecting on the existing evidence, and applying a fresh analysis, we can recover the story of the Farndale women, even though the underlying evidence has not recorded everything they did	The Story of the Farndale Story Building the story over two generations	Time Travel Some reflections on new approaches to genealogy and historical research to allow families to come into contact with their deep ancestral history	Genealogy Some notes on the sources and methods used to compile and bring alive the lineage of a family A reflection of the importance of records of births, deaths and marriages, and census records, but some ideas about how to build on that framework to create stories and pathways through regional and national history	Medieval Genealogy A recognition of some restrictions to genealogical research before 1500, but some ideas to help overcome the constraints	Genealogy and History Some thoughts on the relationship between genealogical methods with historical research, to uncover the full picture		Meet the whole family. The 84 Family Lines of the Farndale Family A matrix of the 84 family lines which make up the extended family will introduce you to every individual member of this family who can trace their origins to Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian England.	The Farndale Directory The original index of our family, in alphabetical order by date of birth, which will enable you to find an individual person if you know when they were born

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