No descendants are recorded for Faramir and Goldilocks, but it is known that the line of Thains continued after their time, and so it is extremely likely that they had children of their own.1
Eight years after Peregrin Took returned from his adventuring with the Company of the Ring, he married Diamond of Long Cleeve. Three years later, their son was born, and the child was named for Faramir of Gondor, the noble son of Denethor. This younger Faramir was born in IV 9 (S.R. 1430), and soon afterward his father inherited the Thainship of the Shire, making young Faramir the Thain's heir at the age of just four.
When Faramir Took came of age at thirty-three, he married Goldilocks, a daughter of Mayor Samwise Gamgee. This was in the year IV 42 (S.R. 1463), after which more than twenty years passed uneventfully2 until IV 63 (S.R. 1484). In that year, Faramir's father Thain Peregrin - who was now ninety-four years old - elected to join his friend Meriadoc Brandybuck and make the long journey southward into the lands they had visited in their youth.
On his departure, Peregrin gave up his claim to the Thainship, and so his heir Faramir became Thain Faramir Took I of the Shire. Of Faramir's descendants, we have no account, but the fact that he is styled 'Faramir Took the first'3 implies that he continued the line of the Thains. There must therefore have been at least a Faramir Took II (and perhaps others of the same name) among the Thains of the Fourth Age, but Faramir is the last of the line to be recorded in the histories.
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That is, no descendants are directly recorded, but there is a mention in the Note on the Shire Records in The Lord of the Rings of 'the great-grandson of Peregrin'. Though not absolutely conclusive, the strong implication here would seem to be that this same unnamed Hobbit was also the grandson of Faramir and Goldilocks.
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That is, these twenty years passed uneventfully in terms of the history of the Shire. In personal terms, it seems that Faramir's mother Diamond died during this period (especially given that his father Peregrin left the Shire afterward) but we have no specific dating for that event.
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It might be noted that Faramir's father Peregrin is also styled 'the first', so somewhere among Faramir's successors there must have been at least a 'Peregrin II' and possibly others sharing that name.
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