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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 1920 to 1929. 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.	The Twenties The Roaring Twenties brought about several novel and highly visible social and cultural trends. These trends, made possible by sustained economic prosperity, were most visible in major cities like New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin and London. "Normalcy" returned to politics in the wake of hyper-emotional patriotism during World War I, jazz blossomed, and Art Decopeaked. For women, knee-length skirts and dresses became socially acceptable, as did bobbed hair with a marcel wave. The women who pioneered these trends were frequently referred to as flappers. The era saw the large-scale adoption of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, radio and household electricity, as well as unprecedented industrial growth, accelerated consumer demand and aspirations, and significant changes in lifestyle and culture. The media began to focus on celebrities, especially sports heroes and movie stars. Large baseball stadiums were built in major U.S. cities, in addition to palatial cinemas. Most independent countries passed women's suffrage after 1918, especially as a reward for women's support of the war effort and endurance of its deaths and hardships
1920 Swindonia Farndale (White, Corrigan), born on 29 February 1920 in Stockport and died in 1978 at Worksop, Nottinghamshire (FAR00859). The Stockport 1 Line. Christie Ann Farndale (Burton), born on 7 May 1920 in Cleveland and died in 1991 in Cleveland (FAR00860). The Whitby 5 Line. She was a domestic servant in 1939. Dorothy Farndale (Thompson), born on 2 May 1920 in Thirsk and died in 2005 in North Yorkshire (FAR00861). The Thirsk Line. She was a housekeeper in 1939. Eileen M Farndale (Wilson), born in 1920 in Wetherby (FAR00862). The Wetherby Line. James Farndale, born on 26 June 1920 in Middlesbrough and died on 1 February 2010 in Stockton on Tees (FAR00863). The Ampleforth 1 Line. Walter Farndale, born in 1920 in Chester and died in 1922 in Chester (FAR00865). The Ampleforth 1 Line. Albert William Farndale, born in 1920 in Guisborough (FAR00866). Albert was a crewman and steward on various ships’ companies in the forties and fifties. Nancy Farndale (Freeman), born on 2 June 1920 in Rothbury, Northumberland and died in 1998 in Plymouth (FAR00867). The Stockton 1 Line. Rubina Farndale (Flowers), born on 16 August 1920 in Moorsholm and died on 29 August 1986 in Northallerton (FAR00873). The Ampleforth 1 Line. Rubina was a hospital ward maid at Eston Hospital. Edith Farndale, born on 31 December 1920 in Moorsholm and died in 1922 in Cleveland (FAR00870). The Loftus 2 Line.
1921 George Farndale, born on 17 March 1921 in South Shields and died in 2006 in Croydon (FAR00871). The South Shields 2 Line and Founder of the London 3 Line. Cyril Ernest Farndale, born on 21 June 1921 in Darlington and died on 24 December 1985 in Leeds (FAR00872). The Great Ayton 3 Line. Cyril served in 100 (The Gordon Highlanders)(Anti-Tank) Regiment Royal Artillery between 1939 to 1942. He was later a postman in Leeds. Harry Farndale born and died in 1921 in Stockport (FAR00874). The Stockport 1 Line. James Neville C Farndale, born on 6 December 1921 in Camberwell (FAR00876). The Ampleforth 1 Line. James was a moulder’s apprentice and iron moulder and settled in Victoria, Australia from 1955. In the long hot summer of 1921 a serious drought hit the country. Springs dried up, the wells filled with frogs, and the usually sweet water from our scullery pump turned brown and tasted of nails. Although this drought was a relief to my family, it was a scourge to the rest of the village. For weeks the sky hung hot and blue, trees shrivelled, crops burned in the fields, and the old folk said the sun had slipped in its course and that we should all of us very soon die. There were prayers for rain; but my family didn’t go, because it was rain we feared most of all. As the drought continued, prayer was abandoned and more devilish steps adopted. Finally soldiers with rifles marched to the tops of the hills and began shooting at passing clouds. When I heard their dry volleys, breaking like sticks in the stillness, I knew our long armistice was over. And sure enough – whether from prayers or the shooting, or by a simple return of nature – the drought broke soon after and it began to rain as it had never rained before. I remember waking in the night to the screams of our Mother, and to rousing alarms of a howling darkness and the storm-battered trees outside. Terror, the old terror, had come again, and as always in the middle of the night. Cider with Rose, Laurie Lee 1922	1921 Population of the United Kingdom reaches 44 million.
Charles Farndale, born on 22 February 1922 in Thirsk and died on 23 April 2009 (FAR00875). The Thirsk Line. He was a horseman on his father’s farm in 1939. Barbara Farndale (Taylor), born in 1922 in South Shields (FAR00877). The South Shields 2 Line. Bessie L Farndale (Sung or Shen), born in 1922 in Chester (FAR00878). The Ampleforth 1 Line. Bessie Marie Farndale, born and died in 1922 in Brampton, Peel, Ontario (FAR00878A). The Ontario 1 Line. Frederick Farndale, born on 7 March 1922 in Wetherby and died in 2004 in North Yorkshire (FAR00879). The Wetherby Line. Frederick was a joiner in 1939. John Farndale BSc (ag), born on 6 July 1922 in Moorsholm and died in 2005 (FAR00880). The Loftus 2 Line. Hazel Jane (“Janie”) Farndale (Rydell), born on 19 September 1922 in Los Angeles, California and died on 28 February 1996 and buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, Section X Site 183 (FAR00881). The American 1 Line. Janie married John Rydell, a Master Sergeant in the US Air Force during World War 2 and Korea and regularly visited our own family in Yorkshire in the eighties and nineties. Joan Lavinia Farndale (Bissett), born on 22 October 1922 in Chichester, West Sussex and died in 1982 (FAR00882). The Sussex Line. Joan was a domestic servant in 1939. Kenneth Farndale, born on 24 December 1922 in Darlington and died on 22 November 1992 in Northallerton (FAR00884). The Great Ayton 3 Line and Founder of the Wetherby 2 Line. Kenneth was a farmer. 1923	1922 Irish Free State gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) is created in 1922. Inauguration of the British Broadcasting Corporation (“BBC”). First public radio broadcasts.
Leslie (“Les”) Farndale, born in 1923 in Thirsk and died on 20 January 2013 in Hambleton, North Yorkshire (FAR00885). The Thirsk Line. Audrey Farndale (Ingham), born on 7 August 1923 in Leeds (FAR00886). The Great Ayton 2 Line. Elizabeth Farndale (Sherman), born on 10 October 1923 in Guisborough, Cleveland and died in 1994 (FAR00887). The Whitby 5 Line. George T Farndale, born in 1923 and died in 1925 in Middlesbrough (FAR00888). The Ampleforth 1 Line. James Noel Farndale (“Jim”), born on 25 December 1923 in Sierra Madre, California and died on 20 April 1989 in Garland, Texas (FAR00889). The American 1 Line. Jim served with the US Army Air Corps in World War 2 in USA and Europe and later he worked for Braniff Airways and lived at Garland Texas.	1923 The English Place Name Society was founded.
1924 William Farndale, born and died in 1924 in Stockport (FAR00890). The Stockport 1 Line. Julia May Farndale (Parnall), born in 1924 in Castle Ward, Northumberland and died on 13 October 2016 in Northumberland (FAR00891). The Craggs Line. Irene Georgina Farndale (Fogden, Smith), born on 15 October 1924 in Chichester, West Sussex and died on 4 May 2002 in Chichester (FAR00892). The Sussex Line. 1925
William Farndale, born in 1925 in Newcastle upon Tyne and died in 1949 in Newcastle upon Tyne (FAR00893). The South Shields 2 Line. Brenda Farndale (Pegg, Willshaw), born in 1925 in Maidstone, Kent and died in 1997 in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire (FAR00894). The Loftus 2 Line. Ethel Doreen Farndale (Hall), born in 1925 in Teesdale (FAR00895). The Great Ayton 3 Line. Robert Alan B Farndale, born on 24 July 1925 in Marylebone, London and died on 20 October 1981 at Scarborough (FAR00896). The Ampleforth 1 Line. He was an errand boy in 1939. Mary Farndale, born on 16 August 1925 in Bradford and died in 1972 (FAR00897). Frederick Farndale, born on 20 November 1925 in Middlesbrough (FAR00898). The Ampleforth 1 Line. He later lived in New Zealand. 1926	1925 Demonstration of the television by James Logie Baird.
Stella Ellen Farndale (Hammond), born on 3 January 1926 in Norwich and died on 18 February 1987 in Hertfordshire (FAR00899). The Norwich Line. Gladys Farndale (Craven), born in 1926 in Thirsk and died on 8 October 2018 at Northallerton (FAR00900). The Thirsk Line William Farndale, born on 12 November 1926 in Leeds and died in 2000 in Leeds (FAR00901). The Leeds 1 Line. Mary Ellen Farndale (Metzer), born on 19 December 1926 in California and died on 5 June 2010 (FAR00902). The American 1 Line. She worked in a chemical laboratory in 1950.	1926 The General Strike of 1926 The Births and Deaths registration Act 1926. The Legitimacy Act 1926.
1927 Rosemary Farndale (Buege), born in 1927 at Milwaukie (FAR00902A). The American 2 Line. Clifford Farndale, born on 28 April 1927 in Thornaby, Cleveland and died on 25 January 2008 and is buried at Enfield Memorial Park, Clearview, Port Adelaide, Enfield City, South Australia (FAR00903). The Ampleforth 1 Line and the Founder of the Australia 2 Line. Clifford emigrated to Australia in the Sixties. Patricia Farndale (Smith), born on 20 February 1927 in Maidstone, Kent and died on 18 March 1995 in Birmingham (FAR00904). The Loftus 2 Line 1928
Miriam Wood Farndale (Bennetts), born on 22 January 1928 in Guisborough and died in 1999 in Middlesbrough (FAR00905). The Ampleforth 1 Line. Janet C Farndale (Barwick), born in 1928 in South Shields and died in 1954 in Newcastle upon Tyne (FAR00906). The South Shields 2 Line. Jean Farndale, born on 31 May 1928 in Whitby and died on 12 July 1993 in Whitby (FAR00907). The Loftus 3 Line. William (“Bill”) Ernest Farndale, born in 1928 in Thirsk and died on 5 April 2019 in Darlington (FAR00908). The Thirsk Line Elizabeth Farndale, born in 1928 and died in 1930 in Stockport (FAR00909). The Stockport 1 Line Sheila Margaret Farndale, born in 1928 in Maidstone., Kent and died on 20 September 2007 in Manchester (FAR00910). The Loftus 2 Line 1929	1928 Women over 21 years old received the right to vote. The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming leading to the antibiotics revolution.
General Sir Martin Martin Baker Farndale KCB, born on 6 January 1929 in Trochu, Alberta and died on 10 May 2000 in London (FAR00911). The Wensleydale Line. Commander in Chief British Army of the Rhine; Commander Northern Army Group of NATO at time of the Cold War, Master Gunner St James Park, KCB.	1929 The Local Government Act 1929 abolished workhouses (though many were renamed Public Assistance Institutions and continued under local council control).