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Grace Alice Farndale
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Tidkinhow
1893
Grace Alice Farndale was born at Tidkinhow on 21 April 1893, the daughter of Martin and Catherine (nee Lindsay) Farndale (FAR00364) (PR and family knowledge). Grace Alice Farndale’s birth was registered in Guisborough District in the second quarter of 1893 (GRO Vol 9d page 525).
1900
Grace at Boosbeck School about 1900 - Grace appears to be the
first girl from left in second row - she lived in Tidkinhow.
1901
The 1901 Census for Tidkinhow Farm, Stanghow
listed Martin Farndale, head, 55, farmer; Elizabeth L Farndale, 21; Martin
Farndale, 19, ironstone miner underground; Mary H Farndale, 12; William Farndale, 10; Grace A Farndale. 7; and Dorothy A Farndale,
6.
1910
The girls of Tidkinhow with the Barker
children in about 1910 (Mary Farndale at back; Willie Barker; Dorothy Farndale;
Mary Barker; Kate Farndale; Margaret Barker; Grace Farndale; and John
Barker front).
1911
The 1911 Census for Tidkinhow Farm,
Boosbeck, Stanghow listed Martin Farndale, 65, farmer, head, born Charlton;
John Farndale, 33; Catherine Jane Farndale, 26; William Farndale, 20, butcher; Grace
Alice Farndale, 17; and Alfred Farndale, 13, born 1898.
1920
Grace about 1920
Saltburn
by the Sea
1921
The 1921 Census
for Saltburn listed
Grace A Farndale, employee, assistant matron, Boarding School for Girls, The
Towers, Saltburn by the Sea.
Towers School Saltburn was
described as ”A High Class Efficient School at Moderate Fees”. An advertisement
appeared in the 1928 York Historic Pictorial. The school focused on outdoor
activities
The Towers was a girls’
boarding school. I believe the school operated from the late nineteenth century
until the mid twentieth century and the school occupied the main building and
several surrounding buildings.
The Towers School closed
in 1960 when it was amalgamated with The Manor School on the opposite side of
the valley.
1922
Dorothy (centre front) and Grace (right
front) at Farndale in about
1922
Malvern
1924
Grace became a matron at Malvern Girl’s School in about 1924 and
was there until about 1926.
Malvern Girls' College was founded in 1893 by Miss Greenslade and Miss Poulton, and was first located in College Road. In 1919 they acquired the Imperial Hotel and in 1934, a major extension including an assembly hall was built. Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), the novelist, is an alumni of Malvern Girl’s College, but as she was the same age as Grace, they probably did not quite overlap.
Grace at Malvern in about 1924
While she was there she met a physical
education teacher, Peggy Baker (BAK00002)
and the two of them became great friends. Peggy would soon marry Grace’s
brother Alfred (FAR00683).
Peggy was a bit of a pioneer and had a car and Grace and Peggy went on
expeditions together in the car during their spare time.
Grace and Margaret (Peggy) Farndale
(wife of Alfred) while teaching at Malvern College in the 1920s
Scorton,
near Richmond
1926
We know
that Peggy and Grace did not like the Headmistress at Malvern. They got so fed
up that they
decided to go to Yorkshire and start a chicken farm near to where Grace’s elder sister, Lynn (nee
Farndale) Barker (FAR00564) lived, at Scorton, near Richmond.
The cottages at Scorton where Grace
Farndale and Margaret Baker (later married Alfred) had a poultry farm in about
1926
Martin Farndale, George
Brown, Grace Farndale, Willie Barker, and Mary Brown (nee Farndale)
Alberta,
Canada
1928
Grace Farndale of Tidkinhow
Farm, Boosbeck, followed three brothers and a sister and decided to emigrate to
Alberta just after her father died in 1928. Alfred and
Peggy also decided to emigrate to Alberta immediately after they got married,
the same year. Martin was over on a visit from Canada and Grace joined him for
the voyage back. They travelled from Liverpool to Halifax, Canada in 1928,
Grace at the age of 33, on the Athenia.
Read Grace’s diary of her emigration to
Canada with some details of life at Tidkinhow. Grace’s sister
Kate had come to Canada earlier and married W H Kinsey, so Grace stayed with
both the Farndales and the Kinsey families.
By
the time the youngest brother, Alfred, and his wife Margaret (Peggy) plus
younger sister Grace, arrived in Alberta in 1928, the family was well known in
the District. These two members of the Farndale family settled in the Huxley district. They lived first with Alfred's
elder brother, Martin, near Trochu.
Grace Farndale
1931
The Canadian Farndales
at the Kinseys in about 1931 (Martin, Jim, Kate, Grace, George, Alfred).
1934
Grace met Howard
Holmes and they were married in Calgary on 3 April 1934.
Grace moved to his farm west of Huxley and they remained there until the early
fifties when they retired to Calgary.
Howard
Holmes farmed south-west of Huxley.
Grace Alice Farndale, married Howard
Holmes of Huxley, Alberta at Calgary in
1934. They had no children.
Wedding of Grace Farndale and Howard
Holmes in Calgary in 1934
Kate Kinsey, Peggy Farndale, Grace
Farndale, Howard Holmes, Dorothy Kinsey, Alfred Farndale
Anne Farndale, Geoffrey Farndale, Martin Farndale
Grace and Howard - wedding photo
The Cleveland
Standard, 5 May 1934: Holmes – Farndale. On April 3rd, in
Canada, Alice, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs M Farndale, of Boosbeck, to
Frederick H F Holmes, Alberta, Canada.
Howard Holmes
From Our
Huxley Heritage, 1983:
Howard was educated in the International
Boys’ School at Hampstead Heath, London. He was expected to go into his
father's business at the Baltic Grain Exchange, London, but he wanted to be a
farmer, so he came out to Canada in 1902. He hauled freight from Calgary with a
team to this area and often said the trail went through where Irricana is
today.
Howard Holmes as a boy in the UK
In 1905, he went to the USA and joined the
Minnesota National Guard; he was a Sergeant. He returned to Canada in 1909 and
bought the southwest quarter of section 12, west of Huxley and settled into
farming.
In 1918, Howard joined the Canadian
Army, the 31st battalion at Red Deer and went overseas. He returned around 1920
or later, owing to being in the hospital. Howard then bought the Guy Shaw
quarter which was the one north of his own and again started farming.
He was active in the Great War Veterans
Association in Huxley, which became the Royal Canadian Legion Number 2 branch,
being a charter member and a past president.
Grace Farndale was born in England and
came to Canada with her brother Alfred and wife Peggy in 1928. Their sister
Kate had come to Canada earlier and married W H Kinsey, so Grace stayed with
both the Farndales and the Kinsey families. She met Howard and they were
married in Calgary on 3 April 1934. Grace moved to the farm west of Huxley and
they remained there until the early 50s when they retired to Calgary.
Howard Holmes
Howard died on 10 January 1955 and Grace
continued to live in Calgary and Elma Fraser rented the farm until she sold it
in 1961 to Walter Anderson.
Martin Farndale and
Howard Holmes at the Holmes Ranch in Alberta in about 1946
In 1967 Grace moved back to England
where she is still living. She's been back to Canada for a couple of visits
since that time, as she has two nephews, George and Alfred Kinsey living in the
Trochu, Three Hills area and a niece Dorothy Goodbrand living in Red Deer, as
well as many who still remember her in the Huxley area.
The Holmeses lived on what had been Guy
Shaw’s Ranch and he likely built the house. It had many rooms which seemed to
have been built on separately, all having their own roof with a chimney
protruding out of each, one or two rooms had a fireplace, others a small coal
and wood heater. Despite all those chimneys the house was reported to have been
very cold.
1935
Howard
Holmes’ Homestead at Huxley.
Grace's ranch
Inside Grace's ranch - the drawing room - about 1935
Howard Holmes on sleigh on ranch about
1935
Howard Holmes cutting corn in Alberta about 1935
Grace on verandah in Canada
1940
Grace, Canada about
1940
Howard and Grace Holmes
1955
Howard Holmes at the
ranch in Huxley in about 1955
Howard died on 10
January 1955. Grace continued to live in Calgary and Elmer Fraser rented
the farm until she sold it in 1961 to Walter Anderson.
1960s
Living on in Canada
FOOD FOR
THOUGHT is dispensed in the library by members of the auxiliary society and, in
addition, members accompanied the bookmobile to wards when patients cannot get
around to return and select books. Mrs Howard Holmes is acting as librarian
and David Rose selects a new book. At rear is RM Adam reading one of the
current magazines kept in the library.
Grace and brother George Farndale about
1960 in Calgary Grace , Mary and
Catherine (Kate) - Farndale sisters - at Sylvan lake in 1960s Grace outside Dunrovin,
Grace’s cottage on Sylvan Lake, Alberta
Dorothy Kinsey, Grace Holmes and Dolly at
the Goodbrand Farm in Lacombe, Alberta
Grace with Anne and
Stephen. The caption says ‘a kite was flying’
Leyburn,
Wensleydale
1967
In 1967 Grace moved
back to England where she lived close to Alfred and Peggy. Later she returned to live at Leyburn,
Yorkshire until she died.
Grace (left) with John and Elsie, Alfred
and Dorothy
1978
Grace with Anne’s son, Stephen
at Alfred’s Golden Wedding in March 1978
1986
Grace in Leyburn in
1986
1992
Grace died aged 99
at Leyburn in 1992. She was cremated and her ashes are buried in Leyburn
Church yard (all from family knowledge).