Samuel Farndale, son of Thomas and Sarah (nee Bell) Farndale (FAR00344) was born on 5 May 1865 in Wakefield District and baptised 8 July 1866. His father was a miller at the time. (BR). Samuel Farndale’s birth was registered in Wakefield District in the second quarter of 1866 (GRO Vol 9c page 37).

1871

Census 1871 - Riggs Cottage, Sleights, Eskdaleside:

Samuel Farndale, age 4; born Wakefield; grandson to John and Margaret Farndale (FAR00262) a quarry waggoner. (1867).

1875

Wakefield Free Press, 19 June 1875: MR REYNER’S SCHOOL. The usual half yearly examination was held on Monday and Tuesday, also the viva voce, on Thursday, before the parents and friends of the pupils, when the prizes were distributed by Mr. J Taylor. The following is the prize list:... 6th English class... S Farndale...

1881

1881 Census – Thomas Lane, Wakefield

Thomas Farndale, 41, inn keeper

Sarah Farndale, 47

Thomas Dawson Farndale, 18, stone mason

Joseph Farndale, 16, commercial clerk

Samuel Farndale, 14

Margaret Farndale, 13

Two female servants

1889

Samuel Farndale was a humourist at a soiree in Wakefield in 1889. Was he the Farndale comedian?

Wakefield and West Riding Herald, 2 March 1889: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH SOIREE, PAROCHIAL ROOMS, GEORGE STREET, SROVE TUESDAY. Chair to be taken by the Rev W M Madden, Vicar.... Recitals by... Humourists: Mr S Farndale... Tea on the tables at five o’clock. Admission: Tea and concert one shilling. Concert only, Sixpence.

Wakefield and West Riding Herald, 9 March 1889: The first of a series of social gatherings it is proposed to hold in several wards of the city in connection with the “Dr Primrose”, (No 19), Habitation of the Primrose League took place on Monday night, when the members of the Northgate division and their friends assembled in the Clarendon Street school room to enjoy a tea, concert, and dance.... After this came a song by Miss Cotton... which was followed by a comic song, in character, by Mr S Farndale, whose rendering of “Quite English you know”, was irresistibly funny, and “brought the house down”. The two original verses at the end, about Yorkshire and Wakefield, created much amusement. An encore was inevitable, and on reappearing Mr Farndale gave with equal success, “Only One”, a very laughable song...

QUITE ENGLISH, YOU KNOW.

1885, by J. F. Valois.

What queer things we see, and what queer things we do,

That's English, you know, quite English, you know;

And now its the rage, and 'tis something quite new,

It's English, quite English, you know.

We're out of the fashion, unless we're agreed

To follow wherever they lead;

To dress just as they do, to look as they do,

It's English, quite English, you know.

Chorus.

It's English, you know, quite English, you know,

How queer are the people, it's English, you know;

We copy their ways, we pay for their plays,

It's English, quite English, so English, you know.

They sent us an actor to show us the way,

That's English, you know, quite English, you know;

He showed us his manner of playing a play,

It's English, quite English, you know.

We studied his walk, and copied his dress,

We puffed him well up in the press;

Some said he was trash, but he gobbled our cash,

It's English, quite English, you know.-Chorus.

They sent us a boxer from over the sea,

That's English, you know, quite English, you know;

He came just to visit this land of the free,

It's English, quite English, you know.

He played the drop game when at Madison Square

And this with a heart free of care;

He managed to join on with hard Yankee coin,

It's English, quite English, you know.-Chorus.

Wakefield Free Press, 2 November 1889: TRINITY CHURCH YMS SOIREE. From half past six to a quarter to eleven is a pretty long stretch, and this was the length of time that the proceedings at the soiree in connection with the Trinity Church Young Men Society lasted on Tuesday evening last.... Mr W N Driver acted as interlocutor, the “bones” was Mr W Speight, and the tambourine Mr S Farndale. Comic songs were sung by Messrs Speight (“Dear Me”), Farndale (“Nervous Nig”) ...

But he was also a clerk of works at the time, on an annual salary of £65:

Wakefield Free Press, 11 January 1890: WAKEFIELD ASYLUM AFFAIRS. Colonel Spencer Stanhope said that the Wakefield Asylum Sub-Committee were asking for the erection further buildings at Wakefield Asylum. The room in which the committee now met was very small and inconvenient and it was necessary that they should now have a boardroom. There was also a deficiency of bedrooms for the medical staff.... The outlay was sanctioned, as also was the expenditure of £242 10s for the improvement and repair of the pig styes at the Asylum. It was agreed that the salary of Mr S Farndale, assistant clerk of works, be increased from £52 to £65 a year.

Wakefield Free Press, 18 October 1890: THE THIRD POPULAR CONCERT of the season was given in the Parochial Rooms on Saturday night, and was arranged by Miss Lawton. The following items were given... Comic song, “Mrs Mulligan's Homemade Pie”, Mr S Farndale...

Miss Mulligan's home-made Pie

by C Frank Horn (1885)

As I sat at my rosewood peanny one day,

Makin' chords that were solemn and grand,

Mr. Mulligan's footman came over the way,

With a big billy doo in his hand.

As a neighbor and friend I was asked to attend,

A party at Mulligan's social and high,

And I found by the way 'twas the very first day,

That Miss Mulligan tried to bake homemade pie.

Arah my boys but that pie was a Daisy,

Flaky and tender, Crispy and brown,

To see what was in it the people went crazy,

Nothing like it was known in the town.

Lemons and rhubarb and raisins and spices,

Icing and frosting piled up on high

Slathers of brandy and sugar so sandy,

In faith was a dandy, that home-made pie.

They stood the pie out on the table,that day,

And it looked like a ship without sails,

While Mulligan mended a hole in the lid,

With a hammer and two or three nails

Sure it looked very nice and I asked for a slice,

For I eat when I'm hungry and drink when I'm dry,

You may say what you plaze but I've been a daze

Since I tackled Miss Mulligan's home-made pie.

Mr Hector McGettigan asked for a slice,

And he swallowed it down in a lump,

He he was took with the colic and cramps in a trice

And the doctor came in with a pump,

Young Woolford McGee kept gazing at me,

I could tell by his looks there was blood in his eye,

Then he hit old McGinn and fractured his chin

With a chunk of Miss Mulligan's home-made pie

Mr. Fogarty tumbled and groaned on the floor,

With the pleurissy pains in his chest,

Maloney cried out, "I don't want any more,"

As he tried to unbutton his vest,

John Michael Dupree kept calling to me,

"Gilhooly I'll lave you my debts if I die,"

While Gerald McCann said he pitied the man,

Who would marry that girl and her homemade pie.

1890

Wakefield and West Riding Herald, 31 May 1890: ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH. There was a very full programme for the Whitsuntide Sunday School festival at St Michael's church.... Afterwards a very pleasant, successful and largely attended entertainment was given in the Boys’ School. The first portion of this consisted of a musical reading, by the Rev A Addison... A short concert followed. In the course of which the Misses Curtis is played a duet on the piano, and songs were given by Mr Farndale and Mr Langhorne. Mr Farndale's comic songs were, as they always are, highly successful, and kept the audience in almost continuous laughter. They included “The Magpie said Come In”, “One More Folks”, “The Bulls Won't Bellow”, and “The Switch Back Railway”. During the evening a very nice inkstand was presented on behalf of a number of scholars of the Sunday school and friends to .....

1891

1891 Census – 20 Thomas Lane, Wakefield

Thomas Farndale, 51, pub inn keeper

Sarah Farndale, 56

Thomas Dawson Farndale, 28, stone mason

Samuel Farndale, 24, clerk of works

Margaret Farndale, 23

Female domestic servant

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1895

Samuel Farndale aged 29, bachelor, clerk of Union Street, Portsea, son of Thomas Farndale, publican (FAR00344), married Pollie Chesters aged 24 a spinster of ‘The Crofts,’ Nantwich, Cheshire, daughter of Robert Chesters, a clerk deceased at St Mary’s Parish Church Nantwich, by banns on 25 May 1895. Samuel and Pollie signed. Witnesses William Bailey and Maggie Bebbington. Arthur JB Ellerton, Vicar.(ie Samuel born 1866).
(MC)

Wandsworth, London

1896

Ethel Chesters Farndale (FAR00674) was born Portsea on 1 May 1896.

1897

Gertrude Farndale (FAR00685) was born in 1897, but died 2 hours old, and was buried on 15 December 1897. Their residence at the time was Walmer Road, Fratton.

1899

Thomas Henry Farndale (FAR00699) was born on Lambeth on 9 September 1899.

1901

Census 1901 – 118 Amesbury Avenue, Streatham, Wandsworth, London

Samuel Farndale, 34, clerk admiralty

Pollie Farndale, 29, born 1872

Ethel Chesters Farndale, 4, born 1897, Portsmouth

Thomas Henry Farndale, born Brixton 1900

Croydon, Surrey

Frank Farndale (FAR00708) was born in Wandsworth on 27 October 1901.

1906

Walter Reginald Farndale (FAR00735) was born in Wandsworth on 4 January 1906.

1907

Hilda Margaret Farndale (FAR00749) was born in Croydon on 24 August 1907.

Samuel Farndale (FAR00741) was born in 1907.

1911

Census 1911 – Kentwyns, Warwick Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey

Samuel Farndale, 44, admiralty accountant clerk

Pollie Farndale, 39

Ethel Chesters Farndale, 14, at home school evenings

Thomas Henry Farndale, 11

Frank Farndale, 9

Walter Reginald Farndale, 5

Hilda Margaret Farndale, 2

Lucy Chesters, sister in law, 30

Madge (Bobby) Farndale (FAR00772) was born on 13 July 1911.

1921

Census 1921 – Croydon

Samuel Farndale, 55, civil service admiralty, clerk. Civil Engineer in Chief, dept Admiralty SW

Mary [sic?] Farndale , 50

Ethel Chesters Farndale, 25, clerk, out of work, civil service, admiralty

Reginald Walter Farndale, 15, left school doing nothing

Hilda Margaret Farndale, 12, at school

Madge Farndale, 9 at school

By 1921, he was an accountancy clerk in the Department of the Civil Engineer-in-chief.

London Gazette, 3 May 1921: UNDER CLAUSE 7 OF THE ORDER IN COUNCIL OF 10^TH JANUARY, 1910. Admiralty: Assistant Civil Engineer in the Department of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief, James Abercrombie Seath. Accountant Clerks, First Class, in the Department of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Joseph Vickers Bainbridge, Charles George Berkeley, Mark Edwin Powell Bolton, John Davis, John Thomas Dobson, Alfred Emmett, Samuel Farndale,...

1924

In 1924 Samuel Farndale insisted on a notice that he was not the father of a Tom Farndale, mentioned in the police reports. Since his son Tom would become a CID officer, no doubt the clarification was important!

Croydon Times, 2 February 1924: We are asked to state that's the Tom Farndale, an uncommon name in this district, mentioned in a local police case, and reported in the Croydon Times of the 23rd inst, is not the son of Mr S Farndale, of 180, Melfort Road, Fulton Heath.

1926

Sheerness Guardian and East Kent Advertiser 24 July 1926: CIVILIAN STAFF VACANCIES. The notification has been received at Sheerness Dockyard of the following vacancies in the Admiralty establishments: for second grade clerk in the Civil Engineering Chief’s Department at the Admiralty, vacant September 29th next, by the retirement of Mr S Farndale;...

1931

Croydon Times, 7 November 1931: THORNTON HEATH. BENSHAM MANOR BOWLS CLUB. The annual general meeting of the Bensham Manor Bowls Club was held in St Stephen's Hall, Winterbourne Road, on Monday, when Mr. A Palmer, honorary secretary and treasurer, presided... the following officers were elected:... Committee... S Farndale...

1936

Samuel Farndale, died age 70 died at Westminster District third quarter 1936.
(DR)

FARNDALE Samuel of 144 Langdale Road Thornton Heath Surrey died 14 July 1936 at St Peter’s Hospital Westminster Probate London 19 August to Pollie Farndale widow. Effects £116.

1939

1939 Register - 40 Melfort Road, Croydon

Mary Farndale, born 16 August 1870, widowed, unpaid domestic duties

Hilda M Farndale (later Moore), born 24 August 1908, shop assistant leather goods, single

Madge Farndale (later Brown), born 13 July 1911, single, shop assistant chemist

1960

Pollie Farndale died 7 Apr 1960 and was born 16 August 1870

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