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John Willie Farndale
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Barrow
in Furness
1883
John Willie Farndale, son of
Joseph and Margaret (nee Robson) Farndale (FAR00299) was born in Barrow in
Furness District and the birth was registered Barrow in Furness District in the
second quarter of 1883 (GRO Vol 8e page 848).
1891
Census 1891 – Hood Street, Barrow in Furness,
Lancashire
Joseph Farndale, 58, widower, joiner
Emily Farndale, 21, home duties,
daughter
Rose Farndale, 12
John Farndale, 8
1894
The Soulby’s
Ulverston Advertiser and General Intelligencer reported that J W
Farndale aged 11 was in trouble at the Barrow Police Court charged with
stealing but was discharged under the First Offenders Act.
1901
1901 Census – 5 North Street, Barrow in
Furness
George H Hadland, 27, corporation
labourer
Rose Hadland, 23 (John’s
brother Rose nee Farndale, FAR00559)
Richard Hadland, 5, born
Barrow in about 1896
Ellen Hadland, 5, born
Barrow in about 1898
John Hadland, 0, born Barrow
in about 1901
John Farndale, boarder, 19, born Barrow
in about 1882, telephone assistant
1903
John William Farndale
married Elizabeth Todd in the third quarter of 1903.
Jarrow
1905
Thomas Farndale (FAR00732) was born in Jarrow in or about 1905.
1907
Joseph Farndale (FAR00739) was born in Jarrow in
or about 1907.
1909
Elizabeth Farndale (FAR00758) was born in Jarrow
in or about 1909.
1911
1911 Census – 18 Pearson Place, Jarrow,
Durham
John Farndale, 28, born
Barrow in Furness in 1883, labourer fitter
Elizabeth Farndale, 24, born
South Shield
Thomas Farndale, son, 6,
born Jarrow in 1905
Joseph Farndale, 4, born
Jarrow in 1907
Elizabeth farndale, 1, born
Jarrow in 1910
William Farndale (FAR00770) was born in or
around 1911, but died aged 0.
1912
James Farndale (FAR00778A) was born in Jarrow
in or about 26 April 1912.
1914
The Newcastle
Journal, 8 April 1914, the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 8 April
1914 and the Hartlepool
Northern Daily Mail, 7 April 1914 reported that John Farndale then aged
31, a labourer pled guilty for stealing a quantity of scrap brass at Durham
Quarter Sessions and was committed to prison for three months. The Jarrow Express, 10 April 1914 explained that the charge was the theft of six brass tubes,
the property of Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Company, on 9 March 1914. John
Farndale was employed by Frederick Jackson, a hawker, so had presumably been
influenced by him, although Jackson blamed Farndale. They later sold the brass tubes
for £1 12s 6d and shared the money.
Emily Farndale (FAR00802) was born in or about 1914, but died aged 4.
1917
Margaret L Farndale (FAR00838) was born in Jarrow
on Tyne in or about 1917.
1919
John William Farndale (FAR00854) was
born in Jarrow on Tyne on 5 March 1919.
1921
George T Farndale (FAR00871) was born in Jarrow
on Tyne on 17 March 1921.
1921
census
– Jarrow
John Farndale, 36, born
Barrow in Furness in 1883, labourer
Elizabeth Farndale, 35, born
South Shields
Joseph Farndale, 14, no
occupation, born Jarrow in 1907
Elizabeth Farndale, 11, born
Jarrow in 1910, at school
James Farndale, 9, born
Jarrow in about 1912
Margaret Farndale, 4, born
Jarrow on Tyne in about 1917
John W Farndale, 2, born
Jarrow on Tyne in about 1919
George Farndale, 3 months,
born Jarrow on Tyne in 1921
1922
Barbara
Farndale (FAR00877) was
born in or about 1922.
1923
The Newcastle Evening
Chronicle, 18 October 1923 reported that John Farndale, then 40, was in trouble again for the
theft of a quantity of copper cable, valued at £3 11s 6d, the property of
Jarrow Metal Company on 6 October 1923. John said that he had found the cable
near the Tyne dockyard. He was committed to prison for four months. After he
was sentenced, the man to whom the copper cable had been sold said “I can
prove he is innocent. The guilty man is in the Court at the back”, but he
was told by the Magistrate’s Cler, “You have nothing to do with that. The
case is finished.”
1925
William
Farndale (FAR00893) was
born in or about 1925.
1926
The Newcastle Evening
Chronicle, 14 October 1926 reported another tassle with the law
when John Farndale, 42, had been charged with stealing a cabbage, the property
of Oliver Pasking, from a garden in the Corporation
Allotments, but the magistrates at Jarrow dismissed the case. John Farndale said
that the real culprit was in court.
These stories of very petty
thefts reflect the tragedy of Jarrow at the time.
In the period immediately
after the end of the First World War, Britain's economy enjoyed a brief boom.
Businesses rushed to replenish stocks and re-establish peacetime conditions of
trade and, while prices rose rapidly, wages rose faster
and unemployment was negligible. By April 1920 this boom had given way to
Britain's first post-war slump, which ushered in an era of high unemployment.
Jarrow had began its development as a
shipbuilding town with the establishment in 1851 of Palmer's shipyard on the
banks of the River Tyne. During the brief postwar
boom of 1919–20, orders remained plentiful and Palmer's prospered. However, the
firm's management had not anticipated the conditions that developed in the
1920s when, as Wilkinson says, "every industrial country that had
bought ships from Britain was now building for itself". The firm made
over-optimistic assessments of future demand, and
invested accordingly. The anticipated demand did not materialise; by the
mid-1920s, Palmer's was incurring heavy losses, and was close to bankruptcy. It
was temporarily reprieved by a short-lived boom in 1929, when orders rose and the town briefly enjoyed the prospect of an
economic recovery.
The ordinary folk of
Jarrow suffered miserably at this time, and this led to the Hunger Marches from
1921, with rising levels of unemployment and ultimately to the famous Jarrow
March in 1936.
John Farndale’s son, also
called John William Farndale (FAR00854),
was the youngest member of the Jarrow Marchers and this John Farndale’s life
reflects the desperation that would lead to the Jarrow Marches.
1928
Janet C Farndale (FAR00906)
was born in or about 1928.
1931
John W Farndale died aged 48
in the second quarter of 1931 at South Shields.