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Domestic
servant who died aged 33 in a tragic accident playing with a ball |
Lillie Farndale 1908 to 6 April 1933 (buried)
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Wetherby
1908
Lillie Farndale, daughter of John W and
Annie (nee Thomson) Farndale (FAR00545) was born in or
about 1908.
1911
1911 Census – Bank Street, Wetherby
John W Farndale (35),
domestic gardener (born Bickerton)
Jane Farndale (29) (married
under one year)
Annie E Farndale (16) (born
Garforth), domestic servant
Arthur Farndale (11) (born
Wetherby)
Tom Farndale (10) (born
Wetherby)
Lillie Farndale (3) Born about 1908.
1933
Lily Farndale, died aged 23, in a tragic accident at Leeds District in the second quarter of 1933. She
was buried at St Peter, Walton in Ainsty on 6 April 1933 (DR).
Leeds Mercury, 8 April
1933:
Death at Play
“Accidental death” was the verdict at a
Leeds inquest yesterday on Lily Farndale (23), domestic
servant in the employ of Mrs Saffer, Lidgett Lane, Moortown, whose home was
at Walton, Boston Spa.
Playing with Mrs Saffer’s six year old
son in the kitchen, she was catching a ball thrown by the boy when she
overbalanced and fell on the fire.
Yorkshire
Evening Post, 7 April 1933:
FATAL PLAY
WITH A BALL.
“Accidental
Death” was the verdict at a Leeds inquest today on Lily Farndale, 23, domestic
servant in the employ of Mrs Saffer, of Lidgett Lane, Moortown, who died from
toxaemia following burns.
The girl’s
father, John William Farndale, of Walton Boston Spa, said his daughter told him
she was in the kitchen at Mrs Saffer’s, playing with Mrs Saffer’s 6 year old
son, when a ball thrown by the boy, and which she caught, caused her to
overbalance onto the fire.
Mrs Saffer
said she heard Farndale screamed, and saw her in flames. She helped to
extinguish the flames.