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George Farndale FAR00588 |
Farmer at Three Hills, Alberta
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See also the Farndales of Tidkinhow
Tranmire,
near Whitby
1882
George Farndale was born on Tranmire Farm on 9 January 1882, the son of Martin and
Catherine Farndale (FAR00364)
(PR, BR). George Farndale’s birth was registered
for Guisborough District during the first quarter of 1883 (GRO Vol 9d page 498).
Tranmire Farm, near Ugthorpe
where George was born
The fourth child and third
son of Martin and Catherine,
George, was born on 9 January 1882 at Tranmire, to where his parents had
recently moved. He would be there for two to three years before moving to
Tidkinhow, where he lived until he went to Canada. Like the rest of his family,
he went to school at Charltons
and later to Boosbeck,
leaving in about 1896, aged 14.
Tidkinhow
1885
By the time George’s brother, James was born on 22 December
1885, the family had moved to Tidkinhow farm on Stranghow Moor
near Guisborough, an improvement on Tranmire. The young family were
brought up at Tidkinhow and the other six children were born there.
1901
The 1901 Census for Low
Wathcote, Easby, Richmond listed George Farndale, 19,
single, stocksman on farm with the Kirby family.
Three Hills, Alberta
1910
Like his brothers, he started to work at Tidkinhow. He was close to his
brother, Martin, and when Martin went to Canada in 1905, Martin told George
that if it was all right, he would send for him. This he did and George went to
join Martin at Trochu in 1911. George was a tall,
broad man of few words, shy and a bit moody. There is a story that before he
left home, he was out around the farm at Tidkinhow when they met some poachers.
They threatened his father and one went up to George
and told him to take his coat off and fight. George said
"I don't need my coat off to you". He banged two of them together and
they all went off.
The boys of Tidkinhow in about 1910. John,
James, Alfred, William, George and inset Martin. George Farndale
1911
George Farndale went to Canada about
1911 and lived at Three Hills,
Alberta. He
never married.
He is shown on the passenger
list of the SS Halifax (Dominion Line) sailing from Liverpool to Halifax
on 1 April 1911, with James
Farndale who wrote a diary of the
journey.
George took a
homestead near Three Hills, not
far from Trochu and lived there all his life until he retired, when he went
to live in Calgary. He lived alone all his life, remaining reserved and shy.
There are many stories about him. Once
he came to help his younger brother, Alfred, to drill corn. He arrived and
started and then, with the job only half done, he drove himself and the drill
home. Something said had annoyed him; so he left. He
was known as a very upright and honest man. His bank manager used to say he was
one hundred per cent reliable. There is also a story that he cared for a
local girl, a nurse, who also liked him. She knew he was shy and tried
to help him propose. He thought she was trying to pressurise him, so he
never spoke to her again! (Family knowledge).
It is perhaps all these stories which describe
this big, shy man best. Certainly he was alone most of
his life. He had many Farndale qualities, but his was an extreme version of
them.
The Canadian Farndales
at the Kinseys in about 1931 (Martin, Jim, Kate, Grace, George,
Alfred). The Kinseys and
Farndales in about 1931 (George with a pipe and hat in the back row).
Calgary,
Alberta
1950s
He
spent the last years of his life in Calgary where he died in 1954, and where he was buried (Our Huxley Heritage).
1954
George
Farndale of Calgary Alberta, Canada, died on 4 May 1954 aged 72 years (DC). He is
buried in Queen’s Park Village cemetery (Lot 89, Block 8, Section 1), Calgary,
Alberta.