Margaret Farndale (later Margaret Law)

20 March 1868 to 1 February 1955

The Wakefield 1 Line

FAR00487

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Married a publican and later helped run the family hotel business in Scarborough

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Wakefield

1869

Margaret Farndale, daughter of Thomas (a publican at the Smith’s Arms) and Sarah (nee Bell) Farndale (FAR00344) was born in Wakefield District on 20 March 1868 and baptised on 3 January 1869 at St Mary, Wakefield (Wakefield PR). Margaret Farndale’s birth was registered at Wakefield District in the second quarter of 1868 (GRO Vol 9c page 36).

1871

1871 Census – Smith’s Arms, Thomas Lane, Wakefield

Thomas Farndale, 34, inn keeper

Sarah Farndale, 37

Thomas D Farndale, 8

Joseph Farndale, 6

Margaret Farndale, 3

Henry Farndale, 0

Ann Summerson, 17, from Canada, servant

Ann Eliza Lester, 13, servant

1881

1881 Census – Thomas Lane, Wakefield

Thomas Farndale, 41, inn keeper

Sarah Farndale, 47

Thomas Dawson Farndale, 18, stone mason

Joseph Farndale, 16, commercial clerk

Samuel Farndale, 14

Margaret Farndale, 13

Two female servants

1891

1891 Census – 20 Thomas Lane, Wakefield

Thomas Farndale, 51, pub inn keeper

Sarah Farndale, 56

Thomas Dawson Farndale, 28, stone mason

Samuel Farndale, 24, clerk of works

Margaret Farndale, 23

Female domestic servant

1893

Margaret Farndale, 25, daughter of Thomas Farndale, publican Smith’s Arms Wakefield, married James Smith Law, 23, on 24 May 1893 at Wakefield (Wakefield PR, GRO Vol 9c page 86).

1895

Kathleen Margaret Law was born (census).

1897

Martha Farndale Law was born (census).

1901

1901 Census – 24 Lyell Street, Scarborough (presumably this is where Thomas lived, but he was visiting or perhaps working at York)

Alice Farndale, 56

Margaret Sale, 33, her daughter

Martha F Sale, 5, her granddaughter

Perhaps Sale was a typographical error and should have read Law.

1902

James Henry Law was born (census).

1911

1911 Census – The Old Gray Mare Inn, Clifton Green, York

James Smith Law, 41, publican inn keeper

Margaret Law, 43, assistant in business

Kathleen Margaret Law, 16, milliner

Martha Law, 14

James Henry Law, 9

A barmaid, domestic help and a billiard marker

1921

1921 Census – Scarborough

James Smith Law, 51 Years 9 Months, hotel keeper

Margaret Law, 52 Years 3 Months, assists in business

Kathleen Margaret Law, 26 Years 4 Months, assists in business

Martha Farndale Law, 24 Years 10 Months, assists in business

James Henry Law, 19 Years 10 Months, assists in business

Frederick Armitage, 28 Years 5 Months

1955

Margaret Law died aged 86 on 1 February 1938 and was buried at Wakefield cemetery (Find a grave index). Her death was registered in the fourth quarter of 1955 at Upper Agbrigg, Yorkshire.

Agbrigg is now south Wakefield.