Tom Christopher Farndale
20 March 1865 to 18 June 1901
FAR00467
|
Return to the Home Page
of the Farndale Family Website |
The story of one
family’s journey through two thousand years of British History |
The 83 family lines
into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider
family is related |
Members of the
historical family ordered by date of birth |
Links to other pages
with historical research and related material |
The story of the
Bakers of Highfields, the Chapmans, and other related families |
Dates are in red.
Hyperlinks to other pages are in dark blue.
Headlines are in brown.
References and citations are in turquoise.
Context and local history are in purple.
Geographical
context is in green.
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
1865
Tom Christopher
Farndale, son of John Christopher and Jane Barnett (nee Telford)
Farndale (FAR00308), was born
in Wisbech District on 20 March 1865 (census and death records). Tom Christopher
Farndale’s birth was registered in Wisbech District in the second quarter of
1865 (GRO Vol 3b page 638).
His father, a sea captain and master mariner, was lost
at sea on the steamer The Norfolk in the Bay of Biscay on 22 January
1868. Tom was three years old.
1871
Census
1871 – Nene parade, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Tom C
Farndale living with his grandfather, John Henry Telford. His mother was not
there.
1877
His mother, Jane, married a barrister, S B Ives, a
barrister, in New York, USA in 1877. Rose was fourteen years old.
Rose, but not Tom at this stage seems to have
emigrated to join their mother. The
Boston Globe, 22 Apr 1878, Mon · Page 4 : ARRIVAL OF THE BATAVIA. The Cunard steamship Batavia, Captain
Mouland, from Liverpool, arrived at this port at 6 am this morning with
merchandise and twenty cabin and 244 steerage passengers. Cabin
passengers : … Miss Rose Farndale …
New York, USA
1878
He arrived in USA in 1878 (1900 census record).
1879
Rose seems
to have returned to UK and then sailed back again with the rest of her family
in 1879.
The Boston Globe, 24 May 1879, Sat · Page 1: The following is a list of cabin passengers
per Cunard steamship Samaria, Captain Roberts, sailing Saturday, May 24, 1879,
for Queenstown and Liverpool … Miss Farndale …
Daily Post, 05 Jun 1879, Thu · Page 7: AMERICAN ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL. PER CUNARD
STEAMER SAMARIA FROM BOSTON. … Miss R Farndale …
Boston Post, 1 Sep 1879, Mon · Page 4: In steamer Samaria, at this
port from Liverpool … Master Farndale, Miss Farndale, Miss Eva Farndale
… Total 389
1880
US Census –
Essex, USA
Rose Farndale
(15, single, stepdaughter), Thomas Farndale (14, single, step son) and Eva
Farndale (13, step daughter) lived with their step father, Stephen Ives, a
lawyer, who seems to have married Constance Ives from the Caribbean by then. So
presumably Jane had died by then.
1900
US Census 1900 – Virginia, USS Hartford Military
Station
Tom was a Yeoman First Class.
1901
Thomas C Farndale died at Baltimore, Maryland, aged 35, from
indigestion and heart failure, on 18 June 1901 (US
Death Records). He was buried at Lot 1106, Grave 7, Mulberry Avenue, the
Harmony Grove Cemetery at Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Find
a grave index).
