A labourer in a wine vault at Firby, near Bedale and later a labourer and worked in colliery

 

William Farndale
1851 to 1919 

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1851

 

William Farndale, son of Thomas and Isabella (nee Bowes) Farndale (FAR00280), was born in Auckland District in 1851. William Farndale’s birth was registered in Auckland District in the first quarter of 1851 (GRO Vol 24 page 231).

Census 1851 - St Helen, Bishop Auckland

Thomas Farndale, head; marr; age 30; coal miner; born Martin Moor; (1821)

Isabella Farndale, wife; marr; age 31; b Durham; (1820)

William Farndale, son; age 2 weeks; b St Helens; (1851) (FAR00386).

 

1861

 

Census 1861 – St Helens Auckland

 

Isabella Farndale, 42, a labourer and widow

William Farndale, son, unmarried, 10, born St Helen Auckland in 1851

Margaret (this presumably should be Mary Ann so will be an error) Farndale, daughter, 8 born St Helen Auckland 1853

 

1871

 

Census 1871 – Barracks, St Helen, Auckland

 

Isabel Farndale, head, 54, born Durham in 1817

William Farndale, son, 20, labourer

Mary A Farndale, 18, dress maker

 

1881

 

Census 1881 – Commercial Street, Willington, Co Durham

 

William Farndale, 30, colliery labourer

Mary J Farndale, 28, dressmaker

 

1891

 

Census 1891 – Low Willington, Willington, Durham

 

William Farndale, head, aged 40, a general labourer

Mary A Farndale, sister, 38, dressmaker

 

1901

 

Census 1901 – Low Willington, Willington, Durham

 

William Farndale, 50, caretaker Church Institute

Mary A Farndale, 48

Nora Bovill, 15 adopted daughter, born Co Durham in 1886

 

The adopted daughter of William and Mary Farndale was Nora Bovill, born on 25 December 1885 in County Durham. Nora married Rupert Evans at Newcastle in 1916.

 

The following information was helpfully provided by Judith Bremner:

 

Later, a labourer in a wine vault at Firby, near Bedale

 

Following the death of her own mother Judith’s grandmother Nora Bovill was brought up from the age of 8  by a spinster ‘cousin’ Mary Ann Farndale (FAR00397) and her bachelor brother William Farndale (FAR00386) in Low Willington Co Durham. The 1901 census shows Nora as their adopted daughter but a poor transcription shows their surname as ‘Thorndale’

 

A few years after Judith’s grandmother’s marriage she returned to live with the now elderly Mary Ann & William in Willington, taking Judith’s mother and uncle with her.  Therefore between the ages of 5 and 10 Judith’s mother lived with Mary Ann Farndale.

 

Mary Ann was always referred to as Aunty Farndale or Aunty.  Her brother William was not very strong and Mary Ann looked after him until his death in 1919, at this time Judith’s mother was a toddler and unable to remember him herself.  Mary Ann died aged 74 when Judith’s mother was 10 in 1927.

 

Their parents were Thomas Farndale & Isabella Bowes. Thomas died in his early 30’s and Isabella had a hard life bringing up 2 young children as a single parent.

 

ME   Judith Bremner (nee Piddington) b.28/6/47

Judith’s MOTHER   Margaret Bovill Piddington (nee Evans) b. 9/3/1917

her brother MY UNCLE   William Farndale Evans b.2/9/1921    d.17/11/1989

my GRANDMOTHER   Nora Evans (nee Bovill) b.25/12/1885  d.1/5/1957

her SPINSTER ‘COUSIN’   Mary Ann Farndale  - (FAR00397)  b.17/3/1853   d. Sept1927

her brother WILLIAM FARNDALE – (FAR00386)  b .March 1851  d. 1919)

 

1911

 

Census 1911, 72 Low Willington, Co Durham

 

William Farndale, 60, coke drawer at colliery

Mary Ann Farndale, 58, sister and single

 

1919

 

There is a family record of his death in 1919.

 

William Farndale, died, age 66 at Durham District in the second quarter of 1919 (DR, Vol 10A, page 411).