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Annie Farndale
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Blackburn,
Lancashire
1909
Annie Farndale, daughter of George and
Mary Agnes (nee Graham) Farndale (FAR00557) was born in Blackburn
District on 14 November 1909 (1939 Register).
Annie Farndale’s birth was registered in Blackburn District in the fourth
quarter of 1909 (GRO Vol 8e page 293).
1911
1911 Census – Clayton Le Moors,
Blackburn
George Farndale, 33, born
Bickerton 1878, farm labourer
Mary Agnes Farndale, 34,
born Padiham Lancashire in 1877
Gladys Farndale, 3, born
Clayton Le Moors in 1908
Annie Farndale, 1, born Clayton Le Moors
in 1910
1921
1921 Census – Blackburn, Lancashire
George Farndale, 44, general
labourer
Mary Agnes Farndale, 45,
cotton weaver
Gladys Farndale, 13, cotton
weaver at the commercial mill, Cambridge Street, Great Harwood
Annie Farndale, 8, at school
1930
Manchester
Evening News 27 November 1930: GIRLS’ STORIES OF HARDSHIPS. FROM MILL TO DOMESTIC
SERVICE. REPLY TO UMPIRE. THREE MADE TO SLEEP IN DINING ROOM. Although both
union and Labour Exchange officials in Blackburn and Great Harwood declined to
disclose the names of the 14 mill girls who had been disqualified from
unemployment relief by the official umpire for refusing office of domestic
service, I discovered today several girls in great Harwood who did accept such
work in Blackpool and Morecombe…. Recently Miss Margaret Mondfield, the
Minister of Labour, declared: “Domestic service
is both an honourable and skilled occupation, and I want to protest most
emphatically against any suggestion of loss of status in taking up such work.” Unemployed
mill girls of Great Harwood, however, are in bitter disagreement with her. Miss
Gladys Taylor, 20, an unemployed mill girl of Barn Meadow Lane, Great Harwood,
who with another girl, Miss Annie Farndale, 21, of Townhouse cottage, Great
Harwood, accepted domestic work in a boarding house in Morecambe, related
the following story: We found that we had to look after 12 bedrooms that were
occupied by 25 visitors. Three of us slept on a bed couch in the dining room.
It was midnight and often 1am before our duties were finished and we
were able to creep into bed. There were four young men sleeping in a hut in the
backyard, and the door from the yard into the house led into the room where we
slept. Our wages were 10s a week, from which insurance was deducted. I only
earned 12s 4d in tips during four weeks. That was my first experience of
domestic work, the girl said. I hope it will be my last.
1934
Annie Farndale married
Walter Harrison at Blackburn, Lancashire in the first quarter of 1934.
1939
1939 Register – Great Harwood, Lancashire
George Farndale, state
labourer, born 30 September 1877
Mary A Farndale, unpaid
domestic duties, born 6 March 1877
Annie Harrison, unpaid domestic duties,
married, born 14 November 1909
