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labourer in a wine vault at Firby, near Bedale and later a labourer and
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William Farndale
FAR00386
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1851
William Farndale, son of Thomas
and Isabella (nee Bowes) Farndale (FAR00280), was born in Auckland
District in 1851. William Farndale’s birth was registered in Auckland District in
the first quarter of 1851 (GRO Vol 24 page 231).
Census 1851 - St Helen, Bishop Auckland
Thomas Farndale, head; marr;
age 30; coal miner; born Martin Moor; (1821)
Isabella Farndale, wife; marr;
age 31; b Durham; (1820)
William Farndale,
son; age 2 weeks; b St Helens; (1851) (FAR00386).
1861
Census 1861 – St Helens Auckland
Isabella Farndale, 42, a
labourer and widow
William Farndale, son,
unmarried, 10, born St Helen Auckland in 1851
Margaret (this presumably
should be Mary Ann so will be an error) Farndale, daughter, 8 born St Helen
Auckland 1853
1871
Census 1871 – Barracks, St Helen,
Auckland
Isabel Farndale, head, 54,
born Durham in 1817
William Farndale, son, 20,
labourer
Mary A Farndale, 18, dress
maker
1881
Census 1881 – Commercial Street,
Willington, Co Durham
William Farndale, 30,
colliery labourer
Mary J Farndale, 28,
dressmaker
1891
Census 1891 – Low Willington,
Willington, Durham
William Farndale, head, aged
40, a general labourer
Mary A Farndale, sister, 38,
dressmaker
1901
Census 1901 – Low Willington,
Willington, Durham
William Farndale, 50,
caretaker Church Institute
Mary A Farndale, 48
Nora Bovill, 15 adopted daughter, born Co Durham in 1886
The adopted daughter of
William and Mary Farndale was Nora Bovill, born on 25 December 1885 in County
Durham. Nora married Rupert Evans at Newcastle in 1916.
The following information was
helpfully provided by Judith Bremner:
Later, a labourer in a wine
vault at Firby, near Bedale
Following the death of her own mother
Judith’s grandmother Nora Bovill was brought up from the age of 8 by a spinster ‘cousin’ Mary Ann Farndale (FAR00397)
and her bachelor brother William Farndale (FAR00386) in Low
Willington Co Durham. The 1901 census shows Nora as their adopted daughter but a poor transcription shows their surname as
‘Thorndale’
A few years after Judith’s
grandmother’s marriage she returned to live with the now elderly Mary Ann &
William in Willington, taking Judith’s mother and uncle with her. Therefore between
the ages of 5 and 10 Judith’s mother lived with Mary Ann Farndale.
Mary Ann was always referred to as
Aunty Farndale or Aunty. Her brother
William was not very strong and Mary Ann looked after
him until his death in 1919, at this time Judith’s mother was a toddler and
unable to remember him herself. Mary Ann
died aged 74 when Judith’s mother was 10 in 1927.
Their parents were Thomas Farndale
& Isabella Bowes. Thomas died in his early 30’s and Isabella had a hard
life bringing up 2 young children as a single parent.
ME – Judith Bremner (nee Piddington)
b.28/6/47
Judith’s MOTHER – Margaret Bovill Piddington (nee Evans)
b.
her brother MY UNCLE – William Farndale Evans b.2/9/1921 d.17/11/1989
my GRANDMOTHER – Nora Evans (nee Bovill)
b.25/12/1885 d.1/5/1957
her SPINSTER ‘COUSIN’ – Mary Ann
Farndale - (FAR00397) b.17/3/1853 d. Sept1927
her brother WILLIAM FARNDALE – (FAR00386) b .March 1851 d. 1919)
1911
Census 1911, 72 Low Willington, Co
Durham
William Farndale, 60, coke
drawer at colliery
Mary Ann Farndale, 58,
sister and single
1919
There is a family record of his death in
1919.
William Farndale, died, age
66 at Durham District in the second quarter of
1919 (DR, Vol
10A, page 411).