Lillie Farndale
1908 to 6 April 1933 (buried)
FAR00752B
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servant who died aged 33 in a tragic accident playing with a ball
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Wetherby
1908
Lillie Farndale,
daughter of John W and Annie (nee Thomson) Farndale (FAR00545) was born in or
about 1908 (census).
1911
1911
Census – Bank Street, Wetherby
John
W Farndale (35), domestic gardener (born Bickerton)
Jane
Farndale (29) (married under one year)
Annie
E Farndale (16) (born Garforth), domestic servant
Arthur
Farndale (11) (born Wetherby)
Tom
Farndale (10) (born Wetherby)
Lillie Farndale (3) Born about 1908.
1933
Lily Farndale, died aged 23, in a tragic accident
at Leeds District in the second quarter of
1933. She was buried at St Peter, Walton in Ainsty on 6 April 1933 (DR).
Leeds
Mercury, 8 April 1933:
Death at Play
“Accidental
death” was the verdict at a Leeds inquest yesterday on Lily Farndale (23), domestic servant in the employ of Mrs Saffer,
Lidgett Lane, Moortown, whose home was at Walton, Boston Spa.
Playing with Mrs
Saffer’s six year old son in the kitchen, she was catching a ball thrown by the
boy when she overbalanced and fell on the fire.
Yorkshire Evening Post, 7 April 1933:
FATAL PLAY WITH A BALL.
“Accidental Death” was the verdict at a Leeds
inquest today on Lily Farndale, 23, domestic servant in the employ of Mrs
Saffer, of Lidgett Lane, Moortown, who died from toxaemia following burns.
The girl’s father, John William Farndale, of
Walton Boston Spa, said his daughter told him she was in the kitchen at Mrs
Saffer’s, playing with Mrs Saffer’s 6 year old son, when a ball thrown by the
boy, and which she caught, caused her to overbalance onto the fire.
Mrs Saffer said she heard Farndale screamed,
and saw her in flames. She helped to extinguish the flames.