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The Farndale Directory Direct
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Each volume of the Farndale
directory provides a direct link to individual Farndales born during the
period. This page provides a chronological list of Farndales born during the
period 1910 to 1919. To the right of the page, you will also see a timeline of
historic events that were taking place at the time, to provide some context. Find yourself or the Farndale
you are interested in. Click on the blue reference
number for more information. Or click on the brown family line
link. 1910 |
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Edith Farndale, born on 7 August 1910 and died on 25 August 1910 in
Gilling, Richmond, Yorkshire (FAR00764). The Richmond Line. She is buried at St Agatha,
Gilling West. Mary Elizabeth Farndale (Wilson), born on 13 November 1910 in Stockton
in Tees and died on 7 April 1963 in Stockton on Tees (FAR00765). The Stockton 3
Line. Wilfred Farndale, born on 13 September 1910 in North Brierley and died
on 26 January 1965 in Worth Valley, Yorkshire (FAR00766). The Bishop Wilton
Line and Founder of the Bradford 2
Line. He was a sanitary meat inspector. Mary Amelia Farndale (Clarke), born on 28 November 1910 at Norwich (FAR00768A).
The Norwich Line.
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Start
of a survey of land ownership (“Lloyd George’s Doomsday”) to support the
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1911 Kenneth Farndale, born on 9 January 1911 in Rothbury, Northumberland
and died in 1979 (FAR00767). The Stockton 1
Line. Kenneth emigrated to Canada in 1927 and stayed there
until 1931, probably on the emigration of boys programme. He was later a
general and farm labourer. Lily (Liby) D Farndale, born on 3 February 1911 in Huttons Ambro,
Malton and died in 1983 in York (FAR00768). The Ampleforth 1
Line. Wilfred Farndale (“Wilf”), born in 1911 at Stockton on Tees and died on
13 November 1985 (FAR00769). The Stockton 3
Line and Founder of the Sodbury Line. He
emigrated to New Zealand and was Chairman of the Poverty Bay Basketball
Association.
William Farndale, born and died in 1911 in South Shields. (FAR00770). The South Shields
2 Line. Nora Farndale, in 1911 and died on 26 April 1913 in Stockton on Tees (FAR00771). The Stockton 3
Line. Madge (“Bobby”) Farndale (Brown), born on 13 July 1911 in Croydon and
died on 25 March 1990 in Kingston upon Thames (FAR00772). The London 1 Line.
She was a shop assistant at a chemist in 1939. Minnie Farndale, born on 19 June 1911 in Burnley and died on 17 August
1994 in Burnley and Pendle (FAR00773). The Bishop Wilton
Line. Minnie was a cotton weaver in 1939. Polly Farndale (Stephenson), born in 1911 in Guisborough and died
probably on 6 February 1969 in Wakefield (FAR00774). The Whitby 5 Line.
Ruth Farndale, born in 1911 and died on 31 October 1918 in Wakefield (FAR00775). The Wakefield 1
Line. She died of meningitis and pneumonia at age 7. Samuel Saunders Farndale, born in 1911 and died on 7 January 1912 in
Guisborough (FAR00776). The Whitby 5 Line Ethel Farndale (Hall), born on 4 December 1911 in Middlesbrough and
died in 1976 in County Durham (FAR00777). The Kilton 1 Line.
An omnibus conductress in Barnard Castle in 1939. James Armin Farndale, born on 1 September 1911 in Hartlepool and died
in 1981 in Bradford (FAR00778).
The Hartlepool 1
Line. A general labourer in 1939. Ivy Annie May Farndale, born on 12 November 1911 in Hammersmith and
died in 1994 in Hammersmith (FAR00778B). |
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National Insurance Act 1911 with some sickness benefits and access to a
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Noman Farndale, born on 18 December 1911 in Wetherby and died in 1993
in Claro, Yorkshire (FAR00782). The Wetherby Line. He was a farm horseman on the
Brattons’ Farm at Wetherby in 1939. 1912 Enid Florence Farndale (Cartwright), born on 17 February 1912 in Oldham
and died in 1973 at Bath (FAR00779). The William Line. A dressing gown cutter and in the ARP
service in Newark in 1939. Madge Farndale (Mell), was born on 4 February 1912 in Chorleton and died in 1981 in Beverley,
Yorkshire (FAR00780).
The Whitby 5 Line. Annie Lillian Farndale, born in 1912 in Winnipeg (FAR00781).
The Ontario 1 Line.
Bernard Farndale, born in Middlesbrough on 18 March 1912 and killed in
action over Denmark on 30 August 1944 (FAR00783). The Loftus 2 Line.
RAF Pilot who went missing believed killed in action over Denmark .
James Farndale, born on 26 April 1912 in Jarrow and died on 28 August
1998 at Thurrock (FAR00778A).
The South Shields
2 Line and Founder of the London 2 Line. A bricklayer in London in 1939. Clarence Richard Henry Farndale, born on 27 July 1912 in Kinsale,
Ontario (FAR00783A).
The Ontario 2 Line.
Tom Farndale, born on 10 September 1912 in Stockton and died in 1975 in
Hillingdon (FAR00786). The Stockton 3
Line and Founder of the Uxbridge Line.
In 1939, Tom was a metal engineer and sheet turner. Edith Mary Farndale, born on 23 February 1912 in Claro, Yorkshire and
died in 1985 (FAR00787). |
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1913 Doris Susannah Farndale (Simpson), born on 20 January 1913 in
Guisborough and died in 2001 in North Yorkshire (FAR00789). The Whitby 5 Line. Jack Farndale, born in 1913 at Prestwich, Lancashire and died in 1915
at Chester, Cheshire (FAR00790). The Whitby 5 Line. Kathleen Alice Farndale (Maine), born on 28 January 1913 at Bretford
and died in 2000 at Bournemouth in Dorset (FAR00791). The Bishop Wilton
Line. Her husband was a French polisher and funeral
undertaker in 1939. Robert W Farndale, born on 18 January 1913 at Wrexham and died in 1985
at Chester and Ellesmere Port (FAR00792).
The Ampleforth 1
Line. Robert was a metal worker in 1939. Lloyd Wiltz Farndale, born in 1913 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (FAR00793). The Ontario 1 Line.
He was a driver in Leeds, Ontario in 1957. George P Farndale, born on 20 March 1913 in Northumberland and died on
8 June 1998 in Northumberland (FAR00794).
The Stockton 1
Line and Founder of the Northumberland
Line. George was a roadstone quarry heavy worker in 1939. Robert Edwin Farndale, born on 19 April 1913 in Wakefield and died on 3
August 1976 at Stockbridge Farm, Thornton in Craven, Skipton, North Yorkshire
(FAR00795).
The Wakefield 1
Line. Robert was a dairy farmer.
William Farndale, on 21 February 1913 in Hartlepool and died in 1980 in
Chesterfield, Derbyshire (FAR00796). The Hartlepool 1
Line. He was an unemployed engineer in 1939. Irene Farndale (Jackson), born on 12 June 1913 in Guisborough and died
on 25 January 2008 in Whitby (FAR00797). The Whitby 5 Line. Ethel Farndale, born and died in 1913 at Liverton Mines, Cleveland (FAR00798). The Whitby 5 Line. Reginald Farndale, born on 31 August 1913 in Darlington and died in
1969 in Darlington (FAR00799). The Hartlepool 1
Line. In 1939, Reginald was a moulder’s labourer in
Darlington. Clara Farndale (Read), born in 1913 in Manitoba and died on 28 August
1996 in Winnipeg (FAR00869).
The Ontario 1 Line. 1914 |
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Eileen (Ellen May) Farndale (Sanders?), born in 1914 at Malton (FAR00800B). The Ampleforth 1
Line. Annie Farndale, born in 1914 and died in 1916 at Burnley (FAR00801). The Bishop Wilton
Line. Emily Farndale, born in 1914 and died in 1918 at South Shields (FAR00802). The South Shields
2 Line. Ethel M Farndale (Robinson), born on 23 May 1914 in Chester, Cheshire
and died on 23 December 1998 or 6 July 2006 in Ipswich, Suffolk (FAR00803). The Ampleforth 1
Line. In 1939, Ethel was a domestic servant with the
Guthrie family (a medical practitioner). Raymond
(“Ray”) William Stainthorpe Farndale, born on the 23 February 1914 in
Newfoundland and died on 23 May 2016 in Guelph, Ontario (FAR00804).
The Newfoundland
Line. A Newfoundland Farndale who served in the Artillery
in World War 2. Later, he was an accountant. He reached the age of 102 and we
believe was the oldest Farndale for a while. Ray, a true gentleman, was
kind and generous of spirit. He was passionate about inclusion, notably those
with special or medical needs and those marginalized by poverty or life
circumstances. He adopted many local and international causes, always adapting
with the times. He loved his Blue Jays, mystery novels, choir singing,
politics, good jokes and live music. A life-long learner, he conquered the
computer and worked well into his 90's, as an accountant. He always enjoyed
"doing his books", gardening, walking, swimming, skating, ballroom
dancing and amateur acting. While a man of few words, he demonstrated deep
emotion and always had a twinkle in his eye. All who knew Ray agree that his
teachers and peers got it right when they awarded him the Knowling
Scholarship numerous times, as "Best All Round Boy"!
John Farndale, born on 13 August 1914 in Wetherby and died on 11
December 1998 in York (FAR00805). The Wetherby Line. John was a bus conductor in
York in 1939. Alice Farndale (Hogarth), born on 3 October 1914 in Liverton Mines,
Cleveland and died in 1983 in Cleveland (FAR00806). The Whitby 5 Line.
Alice was a domestic worker. Doris May Farndale (Smith), born on 11 November 1914 in Loftus,
Cleveland and died on 22 October 1986 in Middlesbrough (FAR00807). The Loftus 2 Line.
She was in domestic service in 1939. Edward Francis Farndale, born on 14 November 1914 in Leeds and died on
21 November 2002 in Ipswich, Suffolk (FAR00809). The Wakefield 1
Line. Edward was an architect’s assistant and later a
machine tools inspector. Florence Eileen Farndale (Simmons), born on 6 October 1914 at Malton
and died in 1999 in North Yorkshire (FAR00810). The Ampleforth 1
Line. Florence was a kitchen maid in Malton in 1939. William Derrick Farndale, born on 19 September 1914 at Holderness and
died on 5 June 1988 in Hull (FAR00811). The Whitby 5 Line
and Founder of the Holderness
Line. William was a motor fitter and tractor driver. He was a
patrol member in the Withensea Patrol, East Yorkshire Coast from 1942 until 3
December 1944. 1915 |
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Arthur William Farndale, born on 26 April 1915 in Chicago, Illinois and
died on 26 August 1996 in Milwaukie, Wisconsin (FAR00813A).
The American 2 Line. Arthur
was a machinist with heavy machinery in Illinois in 1940. Elizabeth Farndale (Stephenson), born in 1915 in Hartlepool (FAR00814). The Hartlepool 1
Line. Margaret
Farndale (Withycombe), born on 28 February 1915 in Rothbury (FAR00815). The Stockton 1
Line. Margaret was a hotel waitress at the Queen’s Head
Hotel in Morpeth, Northumberland in 1939. Maurice Farndale, born on 11 April 1915 in Wakefield and died on 14
December 2002 in Burnley and Pendle (FAR00816). The Wakefield 1
Line, Maurice was a dairy farmer at Bell’s Farm,
Barnoldswick, Skipton.
Hilda Farndale (Lord), born on 12 September 1915 in Burnley, Lancashire
and died in 1985 at Burnley (FAR00817). The Bishop Wilton
Line. Her husband, John Lord, was a silk weaver. William Farndale, born on 14 May 1915 in Bradford and died on 18 June
1978 in Bradford (FAR00818). The Bishop Wilton
Line. William was a plumber in 1939. Wilfred Gordon Farndale, born on 3 October 1915 in Sarnia, Ontario (FAR00819). The Ontario 1 Line.
Wilfred was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force in
World War 2 in Europe and later became an accountant.
Albert Farndale, born on 22 December 1914 in Middlesbrough and died in
1986 in Chichester, West Sussex (FAR00820). The Loftus 2 Line
and Founder of the Surrey 1 Line.
Albert was an airman who became a Corporal in the Royal Air Force during
World War 2. Reginald Arthur Farndale, born on 20 April 1915probably in Cheshire and
died in 1996 in Cheshire (FAR00822A). The Ampleforth 1
Line. He suffered from mental illness and lived at Cranage
Hall Institution in Cheshire. 1916 |
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Bessie Farndale (Bunting), born on 30 January 1916 in Moorsholm,
Cleveland and died in 1941 in Middlesbrough (FAR00824). The Loftus 2 Line.
Bessie was a paid cook at Fubro Farm,
Brotton, Cleveland in 1939. Edith Margaret B Farndale (Glass), born on 3 January 1916 in Leeds and
died in 2003 in Cambridge (FAR00825).
The Great Ayton 2
Line. Edith was a clerk in Ripon in 1939. Eva J Farndale (Langhorne), born on 28 February 1916 in Hartlepool and
died on 4 August 1960 (FAR00826). The Hartlepool 1
Line. In 1939, Eva was still single and a shop despatch
clerk in Hartlepool. Audrey Celina Farndale (McKelvie), born on 15 July 1916 in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada and died on 5 February 2005 in Victoria, Canada (FAR00827). The Ontario 1 Line.
Audrey was employed by the Hudson Bay Company as a comptometer
operator and later by the Canadian Federal Government in a secretarial
position.
Mary Farndale (Clarke), born in 1916 in Stockton on Tees (FAR00828). The Stockton 3
Line. William Arthur James Farndale, born on 24 January 1916 at Chester le
Street, County Durham and died in 2004 in Bromley, Kent (FAR00829).
The William Line.
185589, Private William Arthur James Farndale, RAOC was promoted to Second
Lieutenant in May 1941. He was a lecturer in 1966 and later authored a number of publications relating to hospital management. Cecil Herbert Langdale Farndale, born on 27 July 1916 in Chester,
Cheshire and died on 22 September 1940 in Chester (FAR00830). The Ampleforth 1
Line. He was a motor driver in Chester in 1939. Ethel Farndale, born on 14 July 1916 at Loftus, Cleveland and died on
15 May 1940 in Middlesbrough (FAR00831). The Whitby 5 Line.
Ethel was a domestic servant, but ‘incapacitated’ in 1939. Henry Stewart Farndale, born in 1916 in Leeds and died on 11 May 1945 (FAR00832). The Wakefield 1
Line and Founder of the Bradford 3
Line. Henry died while training in a Tiger Moth in 1945 and
is buried at Leeds Lawnswood Cemetery.
James Farndale, born in 1916 in Stockton on Tees and died on 16 March
1941 (FAR00833).
Private James Farndale aged 24 of the West Yorkshire Regiment died of wounds
on 16th March 1941 in Eritrea. The Stockton 3
Line. 4460826 Private James Farndale aged 24 of the West
Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) second Battalion died of wounds on
16 March 1941 in Eritrea. Operation APPEARANCE was a British landing in
British Somaliland on 16 March 1941 against troops of the Italian Army. In
August 1940, seven months previous, the British had withdrawn from British
Somaliland, after it had been invaded by the Italian army. The British and
Empire forces from the United Kingdom, British India, Australia
and South Africa conducting APPEARANCE made the first successful Allied beach
landing of the war and retook the colony. Keren was the last Italian
stronghold in Eritrea and the scene of the most decisive battle of the war in
East Africa in February and March 1941. Guarding the entrance from the
western plains to the Eritrean plateau, the only road passing through a deep
gorge with precipitous and well fortified mountains
on either side, Keren formed a perfect defensive position. On these heights
the Italians concentrated some 23,000 riflemen, together with a large number of well sited guns and mortars. A
preliminary assault by United Kingdom and Indian troops was repulsed after a
week of bitter fighting, although they gained and held a valuable position on
Cameron's Ridge, on the left of the road. The final battle began a month
later. After ten days of gruelling combat the Commonwealth troops succeeded
in forcing their way through the seemingly impregnable defences on the ridge
and finally through the 200 metre long road block
which the Italians had blasted at the narrowest point in the pass. Keren was
taken on 27 March. The defeated Italian force retreated in some disarray to
Asmara, which fell to Commonwealth forces on 1 April, and the Italian
surrender was taken at the port of Massawa on 8 April. KEREN WAR CEMETERY
contains 440 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 35 of them
unidentified. The KEREN CREMATION MEMORIAL stands within the cemetery and
commemorates 285 Sikh and Hindu soldiers from India and Pakistan killed on the
Keren battlefield during the Second World War, whose remains were cremated in
accordance with their faith. Three East African soldiers are also
commemorated on the memorial. James is buried at Keren War Cemetery, Grave
Reference 3.A.3. (Inscribed Beloved Son of James and the Late Margaret
Farndale, God Grant him eternal rest). |
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January 1916 – The Military Service Act imposed conscription on all single
men aged 18 to 41 with exemptions for medically unfit, clergymen, teachers and certain industrial classes.
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1917 Herbert Farndale, born on 28 February 1917 in Northallerton, Yorkshire
and died on 21 May 1970 in Northallerton (FAR00835). The Thirsk Line. Herbert was a farmer on a
mixed farm at Ash Tress Farm, Maunby. Ada Farndale (Walker), born on 19 January 1917 in Wakefield (FAR00836). The Wakefield 1
Line. Ada’s husband was a dairy farmer. Albert John Farndale, born on 2 March 1917 in Leeds and died on 5
November 1989 in Ripon (FAR00837). The Great Ayton 2
Line. Albert was a public works clerk in Ripon in 1939. Margaret Louisa Farndale, born in 1917 in South Shields and died on 17 November
1996 in Newcastle upon Tyne (FAR00838). The South Shields
2 Line. Pauline Margaret Farndale (Clarke), born on 22 February 1917 in
Leicester (FAR00839).
The Leicester Line.
William Hills Farndale, born on 20 January 1917 in Middlesbrough and
died on 25 January 2009 (FAR00840).
The Stockton 2
Line. William was a gas and chemical engineer who founded Kohlangaz, a coal effect gas fire company. He served in
the Home Guard from April 1941 until June 1947.
Ernest William Farndale, born on 9 September 1917 in Moorsholm,
Cleveland and died on 19 November 1997 in Cleveland (FAR00841). The Loftus 2 Line.
Ernest was a farm manager at Fubro Farm,
Brotton, Cleveland in 1939. Thomas William Farndale, born on 15 August 1917 in Loftus, Cleveland
and died on 24 October 1958 in Loftus, Cleveland (FAR00842). The Whitby 5 Line.
Thomas was an underground mines horse driver in Loftus in 1939. Winifreda (“Freda”) Farndale (Milburn), born on 8 August 1917 in Rothbury,
Northumberland and died on 15 October 2012 at Rothbury, Northumberland (FAR00843). The Stockton 1
Line Elsie M Farndale, born in 1917 and died in 1931 in Darlington (FAR00844). The Kilton 1 Line.
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April -16 June 1917: the Arras offensive 15/319 L/Cpl George Weighill Farndale(FAR00617), The West Yorkshire Regiment was an infantryman
in the first world war who was killed in action at Arras during the Third
Battle of the Scarpe. He also served in Egypt in 1915. He is buried at the
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. The British launched an attack near
the Scarpe on 3 May. However, neither prong was able to make any significant
advances and the attack was called off the following day after incurring
heavy casualties. Although this battle was a failure, the British learned
important lessons about the need for close liaison between tanks, infantry and artillery, which they would use in the Battle
of Cambrai, 1917 Private George Farndale (FAR00646),
while serving with the 1st/9th (Territorial Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion of
the Highland Light Infantry in 100th Infantry Brigade of 33rd Infantry
Division in operations against the Hindenburg Line, was killed in action on
the 27th of May 1917, during the Battle of Arras, barely one month after
arriving in France. He was 26 years old. On his web-page,
you will find extensive correspondence and records about his service.
The
Battle of Vimy Ridge (part of the Battle of Arras), 9 to 12 April 1917 Prior to the main battle,
William Farndale (FAR00647)
served in the Canadian Army in WW1 and was wounded in action at Vimy Ridge on
13 December 1916. Still weakened from his wounds, he died of flu epidemic
shortly after the War ended.
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Margaret Elizabeth Farndale (Ovens), on 17 August 1918 in Chester,
Cheshire and died in 1998 in Worthing, West Sussex (FAR00845). The Whitby 5 Line.
Margaret was a hairdresser in Withensea,
Yorkshire in 1939. Harriet P Farndale, born in 1918 and died in 1938 in Keighley (FAR00846).
Possibly the Loftus 3 Line.
Mary
Farndale (Phillips), born on 22 July 1918 in Guisborough (FAR00847). The Thirsk Line. Mary was a dairy maid at Plane
Tree Farm, Maunby, Thirsk in 1939. Ina E Farndale, born and died in 1918 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (FAR00848). The Ontario 1 Line.
She is buried at Jansen Cemetery, Saskatchewan. Violet Farndale (Medd), born on 1 September 1918 in Middlesbrough and
died on 17 January 2014 in Stockton on Tees (FAR00849). The Ampleforth 1
Line. Her husband was a potato salesman and motor driver in
1939.
Clarence Edward Farndale, born on 3 October 1918 in Toronto and died on
23 June 1992 (FAR00850).
The Ontario 1 Line.
Clarence served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1939 to 1966. He was
then a Farmer and a school bus driver.
Richard (“Dick”) William Farndale, born on 6 August 1918 in
Prophetstown, Illinois, USA and died on 23 March 2007 in Prophetstown,
Illinois (FAR00851C).
The American 2
Line. Dick was a mechanic. He owned and operated Dick’s
Service Station, Prophetstown for many years, retiring in 1987. That was the day we came to the village, in the summer of the last year
of the First World War. To a cottage that stood in a half-acre of garden on a
steep bank above a lake; a cottage with three floors and a cellar and a
treasure in the walls, with a pump and apple trees, syringa and strawberries,
rooks in the chimneys, frogs in the cellar, mushrooms on the ceiling, and all
for three and sixpence a week. … I knew about war; all my uncles were in it; my ears from birth had been
full of the talk of it. Sometimes I used to climb into the basket chair by
the fire and close my eyes and see brown men moving over a field in battle. I
was three, but I saw them grope and die and felt myself older than they. … PEACE WAS HERE; but I could tell no difference. Our Mother returned
from far away with excited tales of its madness, of how strangers had stopped
and kissed each other in the streets and climbed statues shouting its name.
But what was peace anyway? Food tasted the same, pump water was as cold, the
house neither fell nor grew larger. Winter came in with a dark, hungry
sadness, and the village filled up with unknown men who stood around in their
braces and khaki pants, smoking short pipes, scratching their arms, and
gazing in silence at the gardens. I could not believe in this peace at all. It brought no angels or
explanations; it had not altered the nature of my days and nights, nor gilded
the mud in the yard. So I soon forgot it and went
back to my burrowing among the mysteries of indoors and out. The garden still
offered its corners of weed, blackened cabbages, its stones
and flower-stalks. And the house its areas of hot and cold, dark holes and talking boards, its districts of terror and blessed
sanctuary; together with an infinite range of objects and ornaments that
folded, fastened, creaked and sighed, opened and
shut, tinkled and sang, pinched, scratched, cut, burned, spun, toppled, or
fell to pieces. There was also a pepper-smelling cupboard, a ringing cellar,
and a humming piano, dry bunches of spiders, colliding brothers, and the
eternal comfort of the women. … The village in fact was like a deep-running cave still linked to its
antic past, a cave whose shadows were cluttered by spirits and by laws still
vaguely ancestral. This cave that we inhabited looked backwards through
chambers that led to our ghostly beginnings; and had not, as
yet, been tidied up, or scrubbed clean by electric light, or
suburbanized by a Victorian church, or papered by cinema screens. It was
something we just had time to inherit, to inherit and dimly know – the blood
and beliefs of generations who had been in this valley since the Stone Age.
That continuous contact has at last been broken, the deeper caves sealed off
for ever. But arriving, as I did, at the end of that age, I caught whiffs of
something old as the glaciers. There were ghosts in the stones, in the trees,
and the walls, and each field and hill had several. The elder people knew
about these things and would refer to them in personal terms, and there were
certain landmarks about the valley – tree-clumps, corners in woods – that bore
separate, antique, half-muttered names that were certainly older than
Christian. The women in their talk still used these names which are not used
now any more. There was also a frank and unfearful
attitude to death, and an acceptance of violence as a kind of ritual which no
one accused or pardoned. In our grey stone village, especially in winter,
such stories never seemed strange. When I sat at home among my talking
sisters, or with an old woman sucking her jaws, and heard the long details of
hapless suicides, of fighting men loose in the snow, of witch-doomed widows
disembowelled by bulls, of childeating sows, and so
on – I would look through the windows and see the wet walls streaming, the
black trees bend in the wind, and I saw these things happening as natural
convulsions of our landscape, and though dry-mouthed, I was never astonished. Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee 1919 |
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November 1918 - The Armistice. 1918
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Ronald Martin Farndale, born on 22 January 1919 in Wakefield and died
on 3 July 1974 at Masterton District, Wellington, New Zealand (FAR00852).
The Wakefield 1
Line and Founder of the New Zealand
Line. Ronald emigrated to New Zealand and
served in 6th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps in
Greece and Crete and was captured as a Prisoner of War at Sidi Rezegh. He
became a builder and carpenter in Masterton, near Auckland, New Zealand.
Helen E F L Farndale, born in 1919 and died in 1920 in Chester,
Cheshire (FAR00853). The Ampleforth 1
Line John William Farndale, born on 5 March 1919 in South Shields and died
in 1986 in Newcastle upon Tyne (FAR00854). The South Shields
2 Line. In 1939, he was a public works labourer in
Gateshead. Bertram Farndale, born on 24 July 1919 in St John’s, Newfoundland (FAR00855).
The Newfoundland
Line. Bertram was an insurance agent in 1939 and became a
sergeant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps between 1940 -45.
John Horace Thomas Farndale, born on 21 July 1919 in Rochford, Essex
and died on 11 September 2018 at Norwich (FAR00856). The Bishop Wilton
Line. He travelled with his family to Sydney, Australia in
1951, but later lived in Norwich. Kenneth Farndale, born in 1919 and died in 1921 in Darlington (FAR00857). The Kilton 1 Line.
Amelia Farndale, born on 14 February 1919 and died on 21 October 1991
in Cleveland (FAR00858). Catherine Ditchburn (married an unidentified Farndale), born on 18
March 1919 in Newcastle upon Tyne and died in 1966 (FAR00864). The South Shields
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adopted a 48 hour working week.
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