9 January 1882 to 4 May 1954
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Tranmire, near Whitby
1882
George Farndale was born on
Tranmire Farm on 9 January 1882, the son of Martin and Catherine
Jane (nee Lindsay) Farndale (FAR00364) (PR,
BR).
George Farndale’s birth was registered for Guisborough District during the
first quarter of 1883 (GRO Vol 9d page 498).
Tranmire
Farm, near Ugthorpe where George was born
The
fourth child and third son of Martin
and Catherine, George, was born on 9 January 1882 at Tranmire, to where his
parents had recently moved. He would be there for two to three years before
moving to Tidkinhow, where he lived until he went to Canada. Like the rest of
his family, he went to school at Charltons and later to Boosbeck,
leaving in about 1896, aged 14.
Tidkinhow
1885
By the time George’s brother, James was born on 22
December 1885, the family had moved to Tidkinhow farm on Stranghow Moor
near Guisborough, an improvement on Tranmire. The young family were
brought up at Tidkinhow and the other six children
were born there.
1891
The 1891 Census for Tidkin Howe, Stanghow
listed Martin Farndale, 46, farmer and ironstone miner; Catherine Farndale, 35;
John Farndale, 12, born 1879 at Kilton; Elizabeth Farndale, 11, born 1880 at
Kilton; Martin Farndale, 9, born 1882 at Kilton; George Farndale, 8,
born 1882 at Kilton; Catherine J Farndale, 6, born 1885 at Ugthorpe; James
Farndale, 5, born 1886, Stanghow; Mary F Farndale, 2, born 1889, Stanghow; and
William Farndale, 0, born 1891, Stanghow.
1901
The 1901 Census for Low Wathcote, Easby, Richmond listed George Farndale, 19,
single, stocksman on farm with the Kirby family.
Three Hills, Alberta
1906
Like his brothers, he started to work at Tidkinhow. He
was close to his brother, Martin, and when Martin went to Canada in 1905,
Martin told George that if it was all right, he would send for him. This he did
and George went to join Martin at Trochu in 1906. George Farndale went
to Canada about 1906 and lived at Three
Hills, Alberta. He departed for Halifax at the age of 23 on 3 April
1906 on the Laurentian of the Allan Line and arrived on 13 April 1906 (Passenger Record).
He initially took a homestead at Curlew, Alberta,
applying on 24 October 1906 (Alberta
Homestead Records). Curlew
is a small, now rarely mapped, hamlet, northeast of Calgary on (Ticket to Curlew, Celia Barker Lottridge tells of a son and
father setting up a homestead in Curlew in 1915). It is about 15km from Trochu
and close to Three Hills. It was subsequently always referred to as part of
Three Hills.
George was a tall, broad man of few words, shy and a
bit moody. There is a story that before he left home, he was out around the
farm at Tidkinhow when they met some poachers. They threatened his father and
one went up to George and told him to take his coat off and fight. George said "I don't need my coat off to you". He banged
two of them together and they all went off.
The boys of
Tidkinhow in about 1910. John, James, Alfred, William, George and inset
Martin. George Farndale
George took a homestead
near Three Hills, not
far from Trochu and lived there all his life until he retired, when he went to
live in Calgary. He lived alone all his life, remaining reserved and shy.
He never married.
1911
He must
have returned to England since he is shown on the passenger list of the SS
Halifax (Dominion Line) sailing from Liverpool to Halifax on 1 April 1911,
with James Farndale who wrote
a diary of the
journey.
There are many stories about him. Once he came to
help his younger brother, Alfred, to drill corn. He arrived and started and
then, with the job only half done, he drove himself and the drill home.
Something said had annoyed him; so he left. He was
known as a very upright and honest man. His bank manager used to say he was one
hundred per cent reliable. There is also a story that he cared for a local
girl, a nurse, who also liked him. She knew he was shy and tried to help
him propose. He thought she was trying to pressurise him, so he never
spoke to her again! (Family knowledge).
It is perhaps all these stories which describe
this big, shy man best. Certainly he was alone most of
his life. He had many Farndale qualities, but his was an extreme version of
them.
The
Canadian Farndales at the Kinseys in about 1931 (Martin, Jim, Kate, Grace, George,
Alfred). The Kinseys and
Farndales in about 1931 (George with a pipe and hat in the back row).
1913
He
stayed at the Empire in Calgary at New Year 1913 (Calgary
Herald, 31 December 1913).
Calgary, Alberta
1950s
He spent the last years of his life in Calgary where he died in
1954, and where he was buried (Our Huxley
Heritage).
1954
George Farndale of Calgary Alberta, Canada, died
on 4 May 1954 aged
72 years (Deaths Index, media). He is buried
in Queen’s Park Village cemetery (Lot 89, Block 8, Section 1), Calgary, Alberta
(City of Calgary Burials, Monumental Record).
(The Calgary
Albertan, 5 May 1954)
Juisborough refers to Guisborough.
