John Willie Farndale
7 June 1882 to 1931
FAR00591
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Don’t judge John Willie Farndale for his scrapes with the law. He
lived in Jarrow during a devastating economic period that would lead to the
Jarrow Marches, in which his son was the youngest member to take part. These
were desperate times in Jarrow.
Barrow in Furness
1883
John Willie
Farndale, son of Joseph and Margaret Louisa (nee Robson) Farndale (FAR00299) was born in Barrow in
Furness District on 7 June 1882 (school records) and
the birth was registered Barrow in Furness District in the second quarter of
1883 (GRO Vol 8e page 848).
1891
Census
1891 – Hood Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire
Joseph
Farndale, 58, widower, joiner
Emily
Farndale, 21, home duties, daughter
Rose
Farndale, 12
John
Farndale, 8
1892
We
have school records about John Willie Farndale, born on 7 June 1882, in 1892
from St Mary’s School. He was ten years old.
1894
The Soulby’s Ulverston Advertiser and General Intelligencer reported
that J W Farndale aged 11 was in trouble at the Barrow Police Court charged
with stealing but was discharged under the First Offenders Act.
1901
1901
Census – 5 North Street, Barrow in Furness
George
H Hadland, 27, corporation labourer
Rose
Hadland, 23 (John’s brother Rose nee Farndale, FAR00559)
Richard
Hadland, 5, born Barrow in about 1896
Ellen
Hadland, 5, born Barrow in about 1898
John
Hadland, 0, born Barrow in about 1901
John
Farndale, boarder, 19, born Barrow in about 1882, telephone assistant
1903
John William
Farndale married Elizabeth Ann Todd in 1903 and the marriage was registered at
Gateshead in the third quarter of 1903 (GRO Vol 10a page 1311).
Elizabeth
Ann Todd was the daughter of John Todd (1852 to 1918) and Elizabeth (nee Wintrip) Todd (1856), and Elzabeth was born in South Shields
in about 1887. In 1901 she was a domestic servant.
Jarrow
1905
Thomas
Farndale (FAR00732) was born
in Jarrow in
1905. Thomas Farndale’s birth was registered in South Shields District in the
second quarter of 1905 (GRO Vol 10a page 935).
He died aged 10 in 1914.
1906
Joseph
Farndale (FAR00739) was born
in Jarrow on 16
March 1907 (1939 Register). Joseph
Farndale’s birth was registered in South Shields District in the second quarter
of 1907 (GRO Vol 10a page 971).
1909
Elizabeth
Farndale (FAR00758) was
born in Jarrow in or about 1909. Elizabeth Farndale’s birth was registered in
South Shields District in the third quarter of 1909 (GRO
Vol 10a page 915).
1911
1911
Census – 18 Pearson Place, Jarrow, Durham
John
Farndale, 28, born Barrow in Furness in 1883, labourer fitter
Elizabeth
Farndale, 24, born South Shield
Thomas
Farndale, son, 6, born Jarrow in 1905
Joseph
Farndale, 4, born Jarrow in 1907
Elizabeth
Farndale, 1, born Jarrow in 1910
William
Farndale (FAR00770) was
born in or around 1911, but died aged 0 (GRO Vol 10a page 941).
1912
James
Farndale (FAR00778A) was
born in Jarrow on 26 April 1912 (1939 Register). His
birth was registered South Shields District in second quarter of 1912
(GRO Vol 10A page 1877).
1914
The Newcastle
Journal, 8 April 1914, the Sunderland Daily
Echo and Shipping Gazette, 8 April 1914 and the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 7 April 1914 reported
that John Farndale then aged 31, a labourer pled guilty for stealing a quantity
of scrap brass at Durham Quarter Sessions and was committed to prison for three
months. The Jarrow Express, 10 April 1914 explained that the charge was the theft of six brass tubes,
the property of Wallsend and Hebburn Coal Company, on 9 March 1914. John
Farndale was employed by Frederick Jackson, a hawker, so had presumably been
influenced by him, although Jackson blamed Farndale. They later sold the brass
tubes for £1 12s 6d and shared the money.
A
photograph of John provided on Ancestry by his grandson Roy Farndale indicates
that John served during the First World War.
Emily
Farndale (FAR00802) was born
in or about 1914, but died aged 4. Her birth was
registered in South Shields District in the third quarter of 1914 (GRO Vol 10A Page 1987).
1917
Margaret
L Farndale (FAR00838)
was born in Jarrow on Tyne in or about 1917. Her birth was
registered in South Shields District in the first quarter of 1917 (GRO Vol 10A Page 1387)
1919
John
William Farndale (FAR00854)
was born in Jarrow on Tyne on 5 March 1919 (1939 Register).
His birth was registered in South Shields District in the second quarter of
1919 (GRO Vol 10A Page 1318).
1921
George
Farndale (FAR00871) was
born in Jarrow (census)
on 17 March 1921 (death record). His birth
was registered in South Shields District in the second quarter of 1921 (GRO Vol 10A Page 1970).
1921
census – Jarrow
John
Farndale, 36, born Barrow in Furness in 1883, labourer
Elizabeth
Farndale, 35, born South Shields
Joseph
Farndale, 14, no occupation, born Jarrow in 1907
Elizabeth
Farndale, 11, born Jarrow in 1910, at school
James
Farndale, 9, born Jarrow in about 1912
Margaret
Farndale, 4, born Jarrow on Tyne in about 1917
John
W Farndale, 2, born Jarrow on Tyne in about 1919
George
Farndale, 3 months, born Jarrow on Tyne in 1921
1922
Barbara
Farndale (FAR00877)
was born in or about 1922. Her birth was registered in South
Shields District in the second quarter of 1922 (GRO
Vol 10A Page 1707).
1923
The Newcastle
Evening Chronicle, 18 October 1923 reported that John Farndale, then
40, was in trouble again for the theft of a quantity of copper cable, valued at
£3 11s 6d, the property of Jarrow Metal Company on 6 October 1923. John said
that he had found the cable near the Tyne dockyard. He was committed to prison
for four months. After he was sentenced, the man to whom the copper cable had
been sold said “I can prove he is innocent. The guilty man is in the Court
at the back”, but he was told by the Magistrate’s Cler, “You have
nothing to do with that. The case is finished.”
1925
William
Farndale (FAR00893)
was born in or about 1925. His birth was registered in South
Shields District in the second quarter of 1925 (GRO
Vol 10A Page 1688).
1926
The Newcastle
Evening Chronicle, 14 October 1926 reported another tassle with the law when John Farndale, 42, had been
charged with stealing a cabbage, the property of Oliver Pasking,
from a garden in the Corporation Allotments, but the magistrates at Jarrow
dismissed the case. John Farndale said that the real culprit was in court.
These
stories of very petty thefts reflect the tragedy of Jarrow at the time.
In
the period immediately after the end of the First World War, Britain's economy
enjoyed a brief boom. Businesses rushed to replenish stocks and re-establish
peacetime conditions of trade and, while prices rose rapidly, wages rose faster
and unemployment was negligible. By April 1920 this boom had given way to
Britain's first post-war slump, which ushered in an era of high unemployment.
Jarrow
had began its development as a shipbuilding town with
the establishment in 1851 of Palmer's shipyard on the banks of the River Tyne.
During the brief postwar boom of 1919–20, orders remained plentiful and
Palmer's prospered. However, the firm's management had not anticipated the
conditions that developed in the 1920s when, as Wilkinson says, "every
industrial country that had bought ships from Britain was now building for
itself". The firm made over-optimistic assessments of future demand,
and invested accordingly. The anticipated demand did not materialise; by the
mid-1920s, Palmer's was incurring heavy losses, and was close to bankruptcy. It
was temporarily reprieved by a short-lived boom in 1929, when orders rose and
the town briefly enjoyed the prospect of an economic recovery.
The
ordinary folk of Jarrow suffered miserably at this time, and this led to the
Hunger Marches from 1921, with rising levels of unemployment and ultimately to
the famous Jarrow March in 1936.
John
Farndale’s son, also called John William Farndale (FAR00854), was the youngest
member of the Jarrow Marchers and this John Farndale’s life reflects the
desperation that would lead to the Jarrow Marches.
1928
Janet
C Farndale (FAR00906)
was born in or about 1928. Her birth was registered in South
Shields District in the second quarter of 1928 (GRO
Vol 10a page 1424).
1931
John
W Farndale died, aged 48, in 1931, and his death was registered in the second
quarter of 1931 at South Shields (GRO Vol 10a page 841).
Elizabeth
(nee Todd) Farndale, ‘Gran Farndale’ (made available by their
grandson, Roy Farndale on Ancestry).
1938
Elizabeth
Farndale died in South Shields in 1938 (GRO Vol 10a page 740).