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John Martin Farndale
FAR00613
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Grocer and Store manager in Guisborough who later emigrated to Newfoundland |
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Overview
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about the Newfoundland
Farndales
Loftus
1886
John Martin Farndale was born on 4 March 1886 at 4 East Street, Lofthouse, the son of John Farndale, a signalman of Lofthouse and Elizabeth
Farndale, formerly Featherstone, (FAR00376)
(BC). John Martin Farndale’s
birth was registered for Guisbro district in the second quarter of 1886 (GRO Vol 9d page 501) .
1891
The Census of 1891 for 4 East Street, Loftus included John Martin Farndale, son of John and Elizabeth Farndale of 4,
East Street, Loftus, age 5, born Loftus.
1901
The Census of 1901 for 4 East Street, Loftus
showed that John Martin Farndale, the son of John (railway signalman) and
Elizabeth, was aged 15 and a grocer’s apprentice.
So he was a grocer’s apprentice by 1901.
John Martin (left), with his brothers
George, Albert and William
1910
John Martin
Farndale, married Bessie (Betsy) Stainthorpe, in the first quarter of 1910 at Guisborough District (MR).
Newfoundland,
Canada
John Martin Farndale lived
at Loftus and
was a store manager at Guisborough before John and Bessie went to Newfoundland very
shortly after they were married, in 1910.
1914
Raymond Farndale was born on
23 February 1914 in Newfoundland
(FAR00804). (Letters)
1919
Bertram Farndale was born on
24 July 1919 in Newfoundland (FAR00855). (Letters)
An advertisement in 1919 in
the Evening
Telegram of Friday 13 June 1919: WANTED – A Good General Girl; small family; apply Mrs J M
Farndale, 24 Cochrane Street.
So they appear to have lived
for a while at 24 Cochrane Street.
1923
They appear to have returned
to England, as family, via Boston arriving on 22 September 1923 in
Liverpool.
1924
In August 1924, Bessie, Raymond and Bertram were on the passenger list sailing from
Liverpool to St John’s:
1928
John Martin Farndale arrived
in Liverpool from Boston, Massachusetts on 11 February 1928.
1935
In the Census of Newfoundland,
1935:
John (then aged 49) was
shown as head of the household, a manager with a
grocery department, living at 173 Gower Street, St John’s, East Ward. He lived with
his wife Bessie (aged 51), recorded as a homemaker, and his sons Raymond
(aged 21) who was by then an accountant with a fishery firm and Bertram
(aged 16) who was still at school. The record confirms that John and Bessie had
emigrated to Newfoundland in 1910.
Gower Street, St John’s
1945
The Census of Newfoundland,
1945: John M Farndale
(aged 59) living with his wife Bessie (61) at St John’s East (173 Gower
Street). John is still shown as a manager, grocery.
1948
On 21 April 1948 John
travelled from Liverpool to St John’s onboard the ship ‘Newfoundland’. He is
listed as a tourist and a stores department manager. His last address was Job
Brothers, Tower Building, Liverpool.
1950
John M Farndale, aged 64,
arrived in Liverpool on 1 May 1950 from Boston, on the Newfoundland of the
Furness Warren Line.
1953
On 24 October 1953 he
travelled from Liverpool on the Nova Scotia bound for St John’s. His last
address was 29 Church Street, Guisborough and he was shown again as a grocery
manager. At this stage his country of intended future residence was shown as
UK.
1954
John M Farndale, aged 68,
arrived in Liverpool from Boston Massachusetts on 13 May 1954 on the Nova
Scotia of the Furness Warren Line.
Guisborough
1958
John Farndale (left) with
his wife Betsey Farndale and sons: Raymond Farndale (back) and Bertram Farndale
(right), taken in 1958
John and Betsy returned to live at 29 Church Street, Guisborough in the 1950s.
1959
Betsy died on 30 September 1959: Probate. FARNDALE Betsy of 64 Park Lane
Guisborough Yorkshire (wife of John Martin Farndale) died 30 September 1959 at
the North Ormsby Hospital Middlesbrough Administration York 3 November to the
said John Martin Farndale retired grocery manager. Effects £407 0s 4d.
Southampton
John later went to live near his son at Southampton.
1966
John M Farndale,
died age 80 at Southampton on 16 September 1966 and is buried at Southampton (DR). Probate. FARNDALE John Martin of 32
Shanklin Road Shirley Southampton died 16 September 1966 Probate Winchester 3
November to Bertram George Farndale insurance official. £1356.