History of Tidkinhow
In these times the Anglican Church persecuted other religions. There is a recording
that Joshua and his wife were fined the sum of 10 shillings for attending a Quaker
meeting at Roxby in 1683. That was the year that Joshua, his third wife and 3 children
left Scarborough on William Penn’s last ship -
Tidkinhow Farm is situated on an exposed hill some 700ft above sea level facing the coast, which is some 5 miles away and backed onto by Moor. It is located within the North York Moors National Park.
The name Tidkinhow is probably derived from old Saxon wording describing the ownership, possibly by a man called Tydi and his kin upon the hill (How meant hill or mound). It is a property that has existed for centuries. The earliest recording of the dwelling was in the Doomsday book (compiled 1086) and we have managed to find connections with some very interesting historical characters.
Over the last 25 years, we have received many visits from the Hoopes family ofAmerica, tracing their ancestral home. Both Joshua Hoopes (born 1635) and his mother Isabel Calvert (born 1605) were born at Tidkinhow. Joshua Hoopes became disillusioned with the Anglican faith and converted to a Quaker some time after 1679.
The Robinson family owned the property from the early 1700’s but had to give it up in the agricultural depression following the Napolionic Wars of the 1800’s.
More recently in 1886 the Farndale family took up residence at Tidkinhow. Alfred was the last born of 12 children educated in a school at Charltons. Alfred’s son Martin Baker Farndale became very prominent in the military, progressing to be Commander in Chief British Army of the Rhine.