William Farndale

19 March 1851 to 1919

The Bishop Auckland 1 Line

FAR00386

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Bishop Auckland

1851

William Farndale, son of Thomas and Isabella (nee Bowes) Farndale (FAR00280), was born in the parish of St Helen’s Church, Bishop Auckland on 19 March 1851 (Birth Certificate). William Farndale’s birth was registered in Auckland District on 31 March 1851 (GRO Vol 24 page 21).

Census 1851 - St Helen, Bishop Auckland

Thomas Farndale, head; married; age 30; coal miner; born Martin Moor; (1821)

Isabella Farndale, wife; married; age 31; b Durham; (1820)

William Farndale, son; age 2 weeks; b St Helens; (1851) (FAR00386).

1861

Census 1861 – St Helens Auckland

Isabella Farndale, 42, a labourer and widow

William Farndale, son, unmarried, 10, born St Helen Auckland in 1851

Margaret (this presumably should be Mary Ann so will be an error) Farndale, daughter, 8 born St Helen Auckland 1853

1871

Census 1871 – Barracks, St Helen, Auckland

Isabel Farndale, head, 54, born Durham in 1817

William Farndale, son, 20, labourer

Mary A Farndale, 18, dress maker

1881

Census 1881 – Commercial Street, Willington, Co Durham

William Farndale, 30, colliery labourer

Mary J Farndale, 28, dressmaker

1891

Census 1891 – Low Willington, Willington, Durham

William Farndale, head, aged 40, a general labourer

Mary A Farndale, sister, 38, dressmaker

1901

Census 1901 – Low Willington, Willington, Durham

William Farndale, 50, caretaker Church Institute

Mary A Farndale, 48

Nora Bovill, 15 adopted daughter, born Co Durham in 1886

The adopted daughter of William and Mary Farndale was Nora Bovill, born on 25 December 1885 in County Durham. Nora married Rupert Evans at Newcastle in 1916. She died on 1 May 1957.

The following information was helpfully provided by Judith Bremner:

Later, a labourer in a wine vault at Firby, near Bedale

Following the death of her own mother Judith’s grandmother Nora Bovill was brought up from the age of 8 by a spinster ‘cousin’ Mary Ann Farndale (FAR00397) and her bachelor brother William Farndale (FAR00386) in Low Willington Co Durham. The 1901 census shows Nora as their adopted daughter but a poor transcription shows their surname as ‘Thorndale’

A few years after Judith’s grandmother’s marriage she returned to live with the now elderly Mary Ann and William in Willington, taking Judith’s mother and uncle with her. Therefore between the ages of 5 and 10 Judith’s mother lived with Mary Ann Farndale.

Mary Ann was always referred to as Aunty Farndale or Aunty. Her brother William was not very strong and Mary Ann looked after him until his death in 1919, at this time Judith’s mother was a toddler and unable to remember him herself. Mary Ann died aged 74 when Judith’s mother was 10 in 1927.

Their parents were Thomas Farndale and Isabella Bowes. Thomas died in his early 30’s and Isabella had a hard life bringing up 2 young children as a single parent.

Noral Bovill and Ruper Evans had two children. Margaret Bovill Evans was born on 9 March 1917 and William Farndale Evans was born on 2 September 1921 and died on 17 November 1989.

Judith (nee Piddington) Bremner, born on 28 June 1947, is the daughter of Margaret Bovill (nee Evans) Piddington.

1911

Census 1911, 72 Low Willington, Co Durham

William Farndale, 60, coke drawer at colliery

Mary Ann Farndale, 58, sister and single

1919

William Farndale, died, age 66 at Durham District in 1919 and his death was registered in the second quarter of 1919 in County Durham (Vol 10A, page 411).