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Carpenter of Whitby who perhaps undertook military service in the navy, perhaps as a ship’s carpenter. |
John and Dinah Farndale FAR00198 |
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1773
John Farndale was born in or about 1773. Say 24 at the time of his marriage,
then he was born in about 1773. As he died aged 60 in 1833, he was born 1773.
There are baptism records for John Farndale of Loftus and Brotton, born 1772 (FAR000196), but this is someone
different to this John Farndale of Whitby.
He could have been a son of Robert
Farndale (FAR00169),
master mariner of Whitby, given the continued nautical history of this family.
See Whitby 2 Line. It seems more
likely that he was the son of William Farndale (FAR00157) who was a master
mariner sailing coliers along the east coast and with
some similarity in the ship he captained to John Christoper. See the Whitby 3 Line which then traces back to the Kilton 1 Line.
1799
John Farndale and Dinah Boyes, both of Loftus Parish were married by licence, at Loftus, on 23 April 1799 (Loftus PR & IGI).
John and Dinah Farndale may have
been the parents of:
·
Ann
Farndale, born 15 April 1800 (FAR00241).
·
John
Christopher Farndale, born 3 January 1802, who became a Master Mariner himself
(FAR00244).
·
Hannah
Farndale, born 29 February 1804 (FAR00247).
·
Jane
Farndale, born 9 December 1806 (FAR00251).
·
Dinah
Farndale, born 19 March 1814 (FAR00256).
Dinah was certainly this family – see 1851 census below.
·
Mary
Ann Farndale, born 6 October 1817 (FAR00261).
·
Elizabeth
Farndale, born 6 November 1825 (FAR00290).
(Bit it also possible the above (or some
of them) were the children of Robert and Hannah Farndale (FAR00169).
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
Dinah Farndale, Royal
Hospital Chelsea, returns of payment of Army and other pensions 1842-1883.
Widowhood. Did John undertake
military service at some point?
British Mariners, Trinity
House Calendars 1787 to 1854.
Dinah Farndale, the widow of John, at the age of 62 (born 1779). Petition in
1841.
Could John Farndale have been engaged in
the navy, perhaps as a ship’s carpenter?
Did she petition for a pension for his
military service, in 1841?
The Census of 1841 listed Dinah Farndale, aged 55, independently living at Tate Hill, 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 (Dinahs daughter) and Ann Ripon. Dinah Stamp
(her other daughter) was a visitor to the property on census day.
1864
Dinah Farndale died at Hartlepool in
1864.