Alice Farndale
15 October 1853 (baptised) to 1937
FAR00395
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1853
Alice
Farndale, the daughter of Alice Farndale (FAR00301), before mother Alice
later married in 1866, was born in 1831 at Yearsley and baptised on
15 October 1831 (Craike, Durham PR). They lived at Craike.
Alice’s father was a labourer. Alice Farndale’s birth
was registered at Easingwold District in the first quarter of 1853 (GRO Vol 9d, page 304).
1861
She
was a granddaughter of Jethro Farndale (FAR00218) and lived with him
for a time.
Census
1861 -
Coxwold:
Jethro Farndale,
head; married; aged 68; agricultural labourer; born Yearsley.
Alice Farndale, wife age 67; born Tholthorpe (1794).
Alice Farndale, daughter, age 28; unmarried; born Craike (1833) (see FAR00301).
Alice Farndale,
grand daughter, aged 8, unmarried, born Yearsley.
In 1861 Yearsley
had 37 houses; 94 men; 86 women = 180 people.
1866
Alice’s mother, Alice
Farndale, married William Haxby Simpson, a widower, farmer of Yearsley at
Coxwold on 12 September 1866. Alice didn’t live with the Simpson family.
1871
Census
1871 – Oldstead Grange, Oldstead,
Helmsley
Alice
Farndale, 18, was a general servant at the household of the Hartley family, a
farmer of 164 acres. William Thirkell, who she would soon marry, was a farm
worker in the same household.
Alice Farndale, 18, married William Thirkell, 22 at Kilburn on 25
November 1871 (Kilburn PR). They were both
residing at Oldstead Grange, as we know from the marriage
record and the census of that year. The marriage was registered Thirsk District
(GRO Vol 9d page 843).
1872
Mary Alice
Thirkill was born (census).
1875
Emily Thirkill
was born (census).
1878
William Jethro
Thirkill was born (census).
1881
Lily Thirkill was
born (census).
1881
1881
Census – West Huntington Lodge Farm, Wigginton Road, Huntington
William
Thirkill, 32, Head
Alice
Thirkill, 28, Wife
Mary
Alice Thirkill, 9, Daughter
Emily
Thirkill, 6, Daughter
Wm
Jethro Thirkill, 3, Son
Lily
Thirkill, 0, Daughter
Hannah
Simpson, 22, Visitor (Alice’s remarried mother)
I
have not been able to identify any further records after 1881. Alice A
Thirkell, 82, who died in Skipton District in 1937 (GRO
Vol 9a page 62) is not this Alice since the 1901 census shows this Alice married
John Thirkell, not William.