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Married
into the Darwin family, and has many descendants, but died when she was 38 |
Jane Farndale
FAR00310
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I am very grateful to Shelly Darwin for
putting me right on some details about Jane Farndale and for sharing the
history of her Darwin descendants.
1831
Jane Farndale, daughter of Henry
& Elizabeth Farndale, (FAR00229)
labourer, was baptised at Stainton on 23 January 1831 (Stainton PR).
When Jane Farndale and her
twin brother John Henry were born in 1831, their father, Henry, was 36 and
their mother, Elizabeth nee Appleton, was 33.
1841
Census 1841 - Great Ayton:
Henry Farndale (FAR00229), 45, ag lab, born in
York (ie 1796).
Elizabeth Farndale, 45, born in York (ie 1796)
Jane Farndale,10, born in York (ie 1831).
Robert Farndale (FAR00326), 7, born in York (ie 1834).
1852
Jane Farndale married Benjamin Darwin at Stokesley
District in 1852. Probably the marriage was at Great Ayton, in the Stokesley
District. It is believed the marriage was on 4 December 1852.
Benjamin
Darwin,
was the son of Benjamin Darwin and Elizabeth Blumer and Benjamin Junior was the
eldest of 6 siblings.
Benjamin and Jane had seven
children.
1853
Mary Elizabeth Darwin was
baptised at Great Ayton on 6 February 1853.
1855
Margaret Darwin was baptised
at Great Ayton on 23 September 1855.
1856
William Darwin was baptised
at Great Ayton on 29 November 1856. William married Jane Joplin in 1882.
William and Jane had a daughter Ethel Margaret Darwin who married William
Hutchinson.
1859
Jane Ann Darwin was baptised
at Great Ayton on 9 January 1859.
1861
Oliver Darwin was baptised
at Great Ayton on 1 January 1861. Oliver was listed in the 1861 census at 8 months old. He lived to
be over 100, moved to Canada and was in contact with Shelly’s grandfather. They
were both clergymen. Shelly has copies of letters from him signed Uncle Oliver
and had a copy of his book, also signed Uncle Oliver. In the book he writes
that his mother died when he was 8 years old.
1861 Census
Benjamin Darwin, married,
27, a miller
Jane Darwin, wife, 28 years
old (this would give her a birth date in 1833, but may
be an error). She is shown as born at Ingleby Barwick, which is near Stainton,
so this seems consistent.
Mary Darwin, aged 8
William Darwin, aged 5
Jane A Darwin aged 2
Oliver Darwin, aged 8 months
Elizabeth Farndale, aged 32.
In other words born in about 1829. But this seems
consistent with it being Jane’s sister, Elizabeth
Farndale (FAR000291) born
in 1826. Elizabeth was a dress maker. But I need to do more work to reconcile
with Elizabeth Farndale, born 1829 (FAR000306) who may be the
same Elizabeth.
1862
Eliza Darwin was baptised at
Great Ayton on 2 November 1862.
1863
Benjamin Darwin was baptised
at Great Ayton on 10 December 1863.
1869
Jane Darwin (nee Farndale) died in the last quarter of 1869. She was buried at
Linthorpe, near Stockton on Tees on 13 December 1869. She was aged 38.
In the book Oliver Darwin wrote that his
mother died when he was 8 years old. You can access the book for free
here https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0380978.
Oliver Darwin wrote:
BEGINNINGS IN LANDS OLD AND NEW.
August 3rd, 1860, in the village of Great
Ayton at the foot of Roseberry hill, said to be the highest hill in Yorkshire,
England, and famed as the place where Captain Cook received his education. When
I was five years of age my parents moved to New Linthorpe,
a suburb of the industrial town of Middlesbrough, where my mother died when I
was eight years of age, leaving a family of five girls and three boys. My
eldest sister at 16 years of age assumed the duties of mother to her family.
Although she performed the household duties with marked efficiency, she was
unable to control the energies or discipline the rest of the family. Here, I
attended the public school, the only schooling I had, and left before reaching
the end of Grade 1.
I was blessed with a strong, healthy
body which made me appear older than most boys of my age. When nine years old,
I went to work on a farm, making bands for binding sheets. After this, I worked
in a brickyard, when bricks were made by hand, and laid on the ground in rows
to dry. I worked at several other jobs, until at 17 years of age, I was
employed in the steelworks at Wolsingham in the
county of Durham, as a blacksmith, and continued at this work for several
years.
At this time I had contracted bad habits of life which took me a
long way on the road leading to destruction. I was nearing a dangerous
precipice when a fellow worker named Langdale, one Sunday morning met me and
asked me to go with him to Sunday School. More for ridicule than reform I
consented. The lesson for the day was from the gospel according to saint john,
chapter 3, 1-16, the golden text being the last verse...
1871
1871 Census, 110 South Street,
Stokesley
Benjamn Darwin, now a
widower, miller, aged 38
Mary Darwin, aged 18,
servant out place
Jane A Darwin aged 12
Oliver Darwin, aged 10
Eliza, 8
Benjamin, 7
Sarah, 2
Emily, 1