Grace Alice Farndale
21 April 1893 to 1992 

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Tidkinhow

 

1893

 

Grace Alice Farndale was born at Tidkinhow on 21 April 1893, the daughter of Martin and Catherine (nee Lindsay) Farndale (FAR00364) (PR and family knowledge). Grace Alice Farndale’s birth was registered in Guisborough District in the second quarter of 1893 (GRO Vol 9d page 525).

 

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1900

 

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Grace at Boosbeck School about 1900 - Grace appears to be the first girl from left in second row - she lived in Tidkinhow.

 

1901

 

The 1901 Census for Tidkinhow Farm, Stanghow listed Martin Farndale, head, 55, farmer; Elizabeth L Farndale, 21; Martin Farndale, 19, ironstone miner underground; Mary H Farndale, 12; William Farndale, 10; Grace A Farndale. 7; and Dorothy A Farndale, 6.

 

1910

 

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The girls of Tidkinhow with the Barker children in about 1910 (Mary Farndale at back; Willie Barker; Dorothy Farndale; Mary Barker; Kate Farndale; Margaret Barker; Grace Farndale; and John Barker front).

 

1911

 

The 1911 Census for Tidkinhow Farm, Boosbeck, Stanghow listed Martin Farndale, 65, farmer, head, born Charlton; John Farndale, 33; Catherine Jane Farndale, 26; William Farndale, 20, butcher; Grace Alice Farndale, 17; and Alfred Farndale, 13, born 1898.

 

1920

 

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Grace about 1920

 

Saltburn by the Sea

 

1921

 

The 1921 Census for Saltburn listed Grace A Farndale, employee, assistant matron, Boarding School for Girls, The Towers, Saltburn by the Sea.

 

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Towers School Saltburn was described as ”A High Class Efficient School at Moderate Fees”. An advertisement appeared in the 1928 York Historic Pictorial. The school focused on outdoor activities

 

The Towers was a girls’ boarding school. I believe the school operated from the late nineteenth century until the mid twentieth century and the school occupied the main building and several surrounding buildings.

 

The Towers School closed in 1960 when it was amalgamated with The Manor School on the opposite side of the valley.

 

1922

 

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Dorothy (centre front) and Grace (right front) at Farndale in about 1922

 

Malvern

 

1924

 

Grace became a matron at Malvern Girl’s School in about 1924 and was there until about 1926.

 

Malvern Girls' College was founded in 1893 by Miss Greenslade and Miss Poulton, and was first located in College Road. In 1919 they acquired the Imperial Hotel and in 1934, a major extension including an assembly hall was built. Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), the novelist, is an alumni of Malvern Girl’s College, but as she was the same age as Grace, they probably did not quite overlap.

 

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Grace at Malvern in about 1924

 

While she was there she met a physical education teacher, Peggy Baker (BAK00002) and the two of them became great friends. Peggy would soon marry Grace’s brother Alfred (FAR00683). Peggy was a bit of a pioneer and had a car and Grace and Peggy went on expeditions together in the car during their spare time.

 

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Grace and Margaret (Peggy) Farndale (wife of Alfred) while teaching at Malvern College in the 1920s

 

Scorton, near Richmond

 

1926

 

We know that Peggy and Grace did not like the Headmistress at Malvern. They got so fed up that they decided to go to Yorkshire and start a chicken farm near to where Grace’s elder sister, Lynn (nee Farndale) Barker (FAR00564) lived, at Scorton, near Richmond.

 

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The cottages at Scorton where Grace Farndale and Margaret Baker (later married Alfred) had a poultry farm in about 1926

 

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Martin Farndale, George Brown, Grace Farndale, Willie Barker, and Mary Brown (nee Farndale)

 

Alberta, Canada

 

1928

Grace Farndale of Tidkinhow Farm, Boosbeck, followed three brothers and a sister and decided to emigrate to Alberta just after her father died in 1928. Alfred and Peggy also decided to emigrate to Alberta immediately after they got married, the same year. Martin was over on a visit from Canada and Grace joined him for the voyage back. They travelled from Liverpool to Halifax, Canada in 1928, Grace at the age of 33, on the Athenia.

 

Read Grace’s diary of her emigration to Canada with some details of life at Tidkinhow. Grace’s sister Kate had come to Canada earlier and married W H Kinsey, so Grace stayed with both the Farndales and the Kinsey families.

 

By the time the youngest brother, Alfred, and his wife Margaret (Peggy) plus younger sister Grace, arrived in Alberta in 1928, the family was well known in the District. These two members of the Farndale family settled in the Huxley district. They lived first with Alfred's elder brother, Martin, near Trochu.

 

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Grace Farndale

 

 

1931

 

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The Canadian Farndales at the Kinseys in about 1931 (Martin, Jim, Kate, Grace, George, Alfred).

 

1934

 

Grace met Howard Holmes and they were married in Calgary on 3 April 1934. Grace moved to his farm west of Huxley and they remained there until the early fifties when they retired to Calgary.

 

Howard Holmes farmed south-west of Huxley.

 

Grace Alice Farndale, married Howard Holmes of Huxley, Alberta at Calgary in 1934. They had no children.

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Wedding of Grace Farndale and Howard Holmes in Calgary in 1934

Kate Kinsey, Peggy Farndale, Grace Farndale, Howard Holmes, Dorothy Kinsey, Alfred Farndale

Anne Farndale, Geoffrey Farndale, Martin Farndale

 

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Grace and Howard - wedding photo

 

The Cleveland Standard, 5 May 1934: Holmes – Farndale. On April 3rd, in Canada, Alice, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs M Farndale, of Boosbeck, to Frederick H F Holmes, Alberta, Canada.

 

Howard Holmes

 

From Our Huxley Heritage, 1983:

 

Howard was educated in the International Boys’ School at Hampstead Heath, London. He was expected to go into his father's business at the Baltic Grain Exchange, London, but he wanted to be a farmer, so he came out to Canada in 1902. He hauled freight from Calgary with a team to this area and often said the trail went through where Irricana is today.

 

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Howard Holmes as a boy in the UK

 

In 1905, he went to the USA and joined the Minnesota National Guard; he was a Sergeant. He returned to Canada in 1909 and bought the southwest quarter of section 12, west of Huxley and settled into farming.

 

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In 1918, Howard joined the Canadian Army, the 31st battalion at Red Deer and went overseas. He returned around 1920 or later, owing to being in the hospital. Howard then bought the Guy Shaw quarter which was the one north of his own and again started farming.

 

He was active in the Great War Veterans Association in Huxley, which became the Royal Canadian Legion Number 2 branch, being a charter member and a past president.

 

Grace Farndale was born in England and came to Canada with her brother Alfred and wife Peggy in 1928. Their sister Kate had come to Canada earlier and married W H Kinsey, so Grace stayed with both the Farndales and the Kinsey families. She met Howard and they were married in Calgary on 3 April 1934. Grace moved to the farm west of Huxley and they remained there until the early 50s when they retired to Calgary.  

 

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Howard Holmes

 

Howard died on 10 January 1955 and Grace continued to live in Calgary and Elma Fraser rented the farm until she sold it in 1961 to Walter Anderson.

 

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Martin Farndale and Howard Holmes at the Holmes Ranch in Alberta in about 1946

 

In 1967 Grace moved back to England where she is still living. She's been back to Canada for a couple of visits since that time, as she has two nephews, George and Alfred Kinsey living in the Trochu, Three Hills area and a niece Dorothy Goodbrand living in Red Deer, as well as many who still remember her in the Huxley area.

 

The Holmeses lived on what had been Guy Shaw’s Ranch and he likely built the house. It had many rooms which seemed to have been built on separately, all having their own roof with a chimney protruding out of each, one or two rooms had a fireplace, others a small coal and wood heater. Despite all those chimneys the house was reported to have been very cold.

 

1935

 

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Howard Holmes’ Homestead at Huxley.


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Grace's ranch                                                                                                                                    Inside Grace's ranch - the drawing room - about 1935

 

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Howard Holmes on sleigh on ranch about 1935                                     Howard Holmes cutting corn in Alberta about 1935

 

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Grace on verandah in Canada

 

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1940

 

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Grace, Canada about 1940                                                                      Howard and Grace Holmes

 

1955

 

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Howard Holmes at the ranch in Huxley in about 1955

 

Howard died on 10 January 1955. Grace continued to live in Calgary and Elmer Fraser rented the farm until she sold it in 1961 to Walter Anderson.

 

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1960s

 

Living on in Canada

 

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                                                                                                                                                    FOOD FOR THOUGHT is dispensed in the library by members of the auxiliary society and, in addition, members accompanied the bookmobile to wards when patients cannot get

                                                                                                                                                    around to return and select books. Mrs Howard Holmes is acting as librarian and David Rose selects a new book. At rear is RM Adam reading one of the current magazines kept in the library.

 

 

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Grace and brother George Farndale about 1960 in Calgary      Grace , Mary and Catherine (Kate) - Farndale sisters - at Sylvan lake in 1960s       Grace outside Dunrovin, Grace’s cottage on Sylvan Lake, Alberta

 

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Dorothy Kinsey, Grace Holmes and Dolly at the Goodbrand Farm in Lacombe, Alberta

 

 

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Grace with Anne and Stephen. The caption says ‘a kite was flying’

 

Leyburn, Wensleydale

 

1967

 

In 1967 Grace moved back to England where she lived close to Alfred and Peggy. Later she returned to live at Leyburn, Yorkshire until she died.

 

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Grace (left) with John and Elsie, Alfred and Dorothy

 

1978

 

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Grace with Anne’s son, Stephen at Alfred’s Golden Wedding in March 1978

   

1986

 

Grace in Leyburn in 1986

 

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1992

Grace died aged 99 at Leyburn in 1992. She was cremated and her ashes are buried in Leyburn Church yard (all from family knowledge).