John and Dinah Farndale
27 October 1773 (baptised) to 5 July 1833
(buried)
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Carpenter of Whitby who perhaps undertook military service in the navy,
perhaps as a ship’s carpenter.
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1773
John Farndale was born in
1773.
John Farndale, the son of William & Elizabeth (nee Barry) Farndale,
(FAR00157) was born at Loftus and baptised on 27 October 1773 (Loftus PR).
1799
John Farndale and
Dinah Boyes, both of Loftus Parish were
married by licence, at Loftus, on 23 April
1799 (Loftus PR).
There was a Diana
Boyes christened in Kirkdale on 19 February 1791, the daughter of James and Ann
(nee Carter) Boyes, and this could have been her.
1800
Ann Farndale
(FAR00241) was born in
Loftus and baptised on 15 April 1800 (Loftus PR).
1802
John Christopher Farndale (FAR00244) was born in
Loftus and baptised on 3 January 1802 (Loftus PR).
He later became a Master Mariner.
1804
Hannah Farndale (FAR00247) was born on 29
February 1804 and baptised in Whitby on 1 March 1804
(Whitby PR).
1805
Jane Farndale (FAR00251) was born on 9
December 1806 and baptised in Whitby on 11 December
1806 (Whitby PR).
1806
Dinah Farndale (FAR00256) was born on 19
March 1814 and baptised on 21 March 1814 in Whitby (Whitby PR).
1817
Mary Ann Farndale
(FAR00261), daughter of John
& Dinah Farndale, carpenter, was born on 6 October 1817 and baptised at Whitby on 8 October
1817 (Whitby PR).
1819
Ann Farndale (FAR00261)
died at Whitby on 2 May 1819, aged 1 year,
and buried the same day at St Mary.
1823
Elizabeth Farndale (FAR00290) was born on 6
November 1823, the daughter of John and Diana (sic, recte
Dinah), and baptised at St Mary the Virgin, Whitby on 26 December
1825 (Whitby PR, North Yorkshire Record Office
N-PR-WH1-16).
1833
John Farndale
died aged 60 at Whitby,
and was buried at St Mary, Whitby on 5 July 1833.
Dinah his wife
was therefore widowed in 1833.
1837
1837 Poor Law
Valuation of Whitby recorded: Occupier:
Dinah Farndale; Owner: George Taylor ; Description: Chamber and garret;
Rateable value £2.0
The 1837 valuation of
Whitby is a list of every property in
the township of Whitby in the year 1837, that is 2,435 houses, tenements,
shops, offices and other places. The valuation includes the occupier of the
property, its owner, a description and its rateable value. The record therefore
shows the type of house Dinah was living in.
In 1834,
the New Poor Law came into operation in England and Wales. As part of this,
parishes were grouped into Poor Law Unions. These were administered locally
by a Board of Guardians, elected by each parish or township, and answerable
to a central Poor Law Commission, based in London.
Those families who could not fend for
themselves were either given money or food to sustain themselves
(known as out-relief) or were taken into a Union Workhouse. The
workhouse was segregated by sex and the inmates were expected to perform
laborious tasks in return for their food and lodging, so this was an option
that the poor avoided whenever possible.
The funds to pay for the relief of the poor were
collected from the population of the township or parish, according to the value
of the property they occupied. The value of each property, or more
particularly, the rent it would fetch if rented for a year, was assessed. The
local Board of Guardians would decide how much they needed in each year and
each householder was liable for a proportion of this, depending on the annual
rateable value of the property.
In 1837,
the Board of Guardians for the Whitby Union came to the conclusion that
the rateable values that they had been using prior to that date was out
of date. They requested permission from the Poor Law Commission to conduct a
new valuation. When this was granted, in order to record the annual
rateable value of each property, the Board of Guardians appointed a valuer.
He wrote a list of properties with their owners, occupiers and their rateable
values, presumably by walking around the town and interviewing people. This
list was published by a local printer so that people could check that their
rateable value was correct and also that no-one else was being charged too low
a rate. A copy of the list was sent to the Poor Law Commission.
The original record is at The National Archives at
Kew, in reference MH12/14656.
1841
British
Mariners, Trinity House Calendars 1787 to 1854. Dinah Farndale, the widow of John,
at the age of 62 (born 1779), appeared in a list of Trinity House Petition in
1841.
It seems probable
that John Farndale was engaged in the navy, perhaps as a ship’s carpenter.
Dinah seems to
have petitioned for a pension for his military service, in 1841.
The Census of 1841 listed Dinah Farndale, aged 55,
independently living at Church Street, Whitby born in
Yorkshire.
1851
The Census 1851 listed
Dinah Farndale, aged 70, born Hinderwell, living at Stockton living with Nicholas Ripon and Jane
Ripon (Dinah’s daughter (FAR00251))
and Ann Ripon. Dinah Stamp (her other daughter) was a visitor to the property
on census day.
Census
1851,
Stamp Street, Stockton on Tees
Nicholas Ripon,
43 (Dinah’s son in law)
Jane Ripon (Dinah’s daughter),
44
Ann Ripon
Dinah Stamp, 37, Dinah’s
daughter, a carpenter’s wife, a visitor to the property that day
Dinah Farndale,
70
1852
Dinah Farndale, Royal Hospital Chelsea, returns of payment of Army and
other pensions 1842-1883. Widowhood.
These were entries for 1852.
1861
In 1861, she
lived with Elizabeth Boyes, master mariner’s wife and Dinah Boyes, at Milton
Road, Stranton, Hartlepool. Also living
with them was Dinah Hunt (1861 Census, Hartlepool).
This is strange,
as Dinah’s maiden name was Boyes so it is unlikely she was a grandmother to a
Boyes family. Perhaps she was living by then with a relative from her own
family, and was described as a grandmother generically. Dinah Hunt was
certainly her daughter.
1864
Dinah Farndale
died at Hartlepool in 1864 (GRO Vol 10a page 76).
