William Farndale
19 March 1851 to 1919
FAR00386
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A labourer in a wine vault at Firby, near Bedale and later a
labourer and worked in colliery
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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; marr;
age 30; coal miner; born Martin Moor; (1821)
Isabella Farndale, wife; marr;
age 31; b Durham; (1820)
William Farndale,
son; age 2 weeks; b St Helens; (1851) (FAR00386).
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.
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 & 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 & Isabella Bowes. Thomas died in his early
30’s and Isabella had a hard life bringing up 2 young children as a single
parent.
ME
– Judith Bremner (nee Piddington)
b.28/6/47
Judith’s
MOTHER – Margaret Bovill Piddington (nee
Evans) b.
her
brother MY UNCLE – William Farndale
Evans b.2/9/1921 d.17/11/1989
my
GRANDMOTHER – Nora Evans (nee Bovill)
b.25/12/1885 d.1/5/1957
her
SPINSTER ‘COUSIN’ – Mary Ann
Farndale - (FAR00397) b.17/3/1853 d. Sept1927
her
brother WILLIAM FARNDALE – (FAR00386) b
.March 1851 d. 1919)
1911
Census
1911, 72 Low Willington, Co Durham
William
Farndale, 60, coke drawer at colliery
Mary Ann
Farndale, 58, sister and single
1919
There is a family
record of his death in 1919.
William
Farndale, died, age 66 at Durham District in
the second quarter of 1919 (DR, Vol 10A, page 411).