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Elias Farndale FAR00147
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Elias Farndale’s life are in brown.
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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.
This means that the trail for this significant section of the Farndale family
goes cold with Elias. 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.
So, if the only Farndales on the written
record lived in Cleveland for two hundred years between 1567 to 1754, 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
One possible 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.
The trail then
goes cold again as we don’t have a definitive record of Richard’s parents.
However he was no doubt part of the family tracing back to George
Farndale (1565 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
Not related to the Cleveland Farndales
and direct ancestry to south of Farndale families?
1732
I can’t directly trace his ancestry from
here. There is a possible link with FAR00184.
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.
If he was 21 at his wedding then he was
born about 1732.
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.
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Elizabeth Raper (1732 (Topcliffe) to
1777) was the daughter of William Raper (1681 (Sinderby, Yorkshire) to 1771)
and Ann Pickering (b 1687)
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.