George Farndale
17 September 1864 to 1940
FAR00453A
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A farm labourer who seems to have travelled to Ireland where he
married before returning to Aberford
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Aberford
1864
George Farndale, son
of William (a shepherd of Aberford) and Mary (nee Leppington) Farndale (FAR00281) was born on 17
September 1864 at Aberford (Census Records)
and baptised there on 5 November 1862 (Aberford PR).
Barwick in Elmet and
Tadcaster area
1871
1871 Census –
Barwick in Elmet
William Farndel, shepherd
Mary Farndel, 49
Margeret Farndel, 10
Charles Farndel, 14
Hannah Farndel, 12
George Farndel, 8
1881
Census
1881 –
Barwick in Elmet, Tadcaster
William Farndale,
61, a shepherd, born in Bishop Wilton
Margaret
Farndale, daughter, 20, ‘shepherd’s daughter’
George Farndale, 18, ‘shepherd’s
son’
1891
Census
1891,
from the civil parish of Aberford in the Administrative County of York
William Farndale
shown as the head, a widower, aged 68, living at 138 Blackfern
Lodge. A retired shepherd who was born in Bishop Wilton.
He lived at Black
Fern Lodge, and the only other person registered is his daughter, Margaret
Farndale, aged 30, born at South Lodge, Aberford
So George had left
home by 1891
1891
Census –
Woodhouse Grange, Saxton with Scarthingwell, Tadcaster
George Farndale,
26, shepherd, born Aberford living at Woodhouse Grange with a farmer, the Smail
family.
Molenan, Mullennan, Londonderry,
Ireland
1900
George Farndale
married Eliza Minnie (“Minnie”) (born in Molenan in
about 1873) in Ireland in or about 1900
(census).
William James
Farndale (FAR00704B)
was born in Ireland (Molenan) on 9 September 1900 (1939 Register, army records).
1901
The family seems
to have lived in Ireland until 1901.
Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby
1901
Census –
Black Fern Lodge, Bramham, Wetherby
George Farndale,
head, 30, labourer on farm
Minnie Farndale,
26, born in Ireland
William J
Farndale, 0, born in Ireland
1902
Margaret Anne
Farndale (FAR00709)
was born at Bramham in 1901 and baptised there on 10 September 1901 (1939 Register) and baptised there on 2 November
1901 (Bramham PR).
1911
1911
Census – South
Lodge, Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby
George Farndale,
40, farm labourer, born Aberford
Minnie Farndale,
wife, 38 – married 11 years so married in 1900 – she was born in Ireland (Molenan)
William James
Farndale, 10, born Ireland (Molenan)
Margaret Anne
Farndale, 9, born Bramham
Electoral
Register shows
George Farndale lived at Blackfern Lodge, Bramham
(see his sister’s record) in 1905, 1910, 1915
1921
Census 1921 – Wetherby
George Farndale, head,
58 years and 89 months old, married, born Aberford, a farm labourer with
Colonel Lane Fox at Bramham Park, Boston Spa.
Eliza M Farndale,
wife, 50, married, born in Londonderry, Ireland, a char woman with Colonel Lane
Fox at Bramham Park, Boston Spa.
William J
Farndale, 20 years and 9 months, single, born Londonderry, Ireland, a garden
labourer with Colonel Lane Fox at Bramham Park, Boston Spa.
Margaret A
Farndale, 19 years and 9 months, single, born Bramham, Yorkshire, a housekeeper
at home.
1926
Elizabeth (sic)
M Farndale died in 1926, aged 54, and the death was registered in Wetherby in
the first quarter of 1926 (GRO Vol 9a page 170).
1939
1939
Census – Bramham,
Wetherby
George Farndale,
old age pensioner, widow – date of birth 17 September 1864
1940
George Farndale
died, aged 75, in 1940 and the death was registered in Wetherby District in the
second quarter of 1940 (GRO Vol 9a page 404).
Note that a Minnie Farndale, died age 58 at
Holderness District in the first quarter of 1946. But George was widowed by
1939 so this was not George’s wife.