The Farndales of Craggs Hill

The story of the family of Matthew Farndale

 

 

A family gripe …

 

 

The adopted daughter of Matthew Farndale’s niece, Mary Ann Farndale, Nora Bovill, of the Bishop Auckland Line had vivid memories of holidays at Cragg Hall Farm. she was adamant that she knew it is Cragg and not Craggs. Matthew Farndale, affectionately called Mattha by Mary Ann and Nora Bovill, was an elderly widower by then and he appeared to enjoy her fussing over him.  Nora remembered a beautiful rose garden hidden at the back of the farm seen only by those at the farm, with fruit bushes dripping with berries, and she remembers taking the farmworkers lunches out to the fields at midday, and being allowed to go shopping on her own to Carlin How or Brotton when she was only 5 or 6 at the time. She remembered reading Pilgrims Progress in the rarely used ‘front room’    A special treat was to be taken for rides in the side car of Herbert Farndale’s motor bike.  Herbert, Matthews’ son was presumably running Craggs farm by this stage.

 

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