Annie Farndale
14 November 1909 to 1989
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Blackburn, Lancashire
1909
Annie Farndale,
daughter of George and Mary Agnes (nee Graham) Farndale (FAR00557) was born in Blackburn
District on 14 November 1909 (1939 Register).
Annie Farndale’s birth was registered in Blackburn
District in the fourth quarter of 1909 (GRO Vol 8e
page 293).
1911
1911
Census – Clayton Le Moors, Blackburn
George
Farndale, 33, born Bickerton 1878, farm labourer
Mary
Agnes Farndale, 34, born Padiham Lancashire in 1877
Gladys
Farndale, 3, born Clayton Le Moors in 1908
Annie
Farndale, 1, born Clayton Le Moors in 1910
1921
1921 Census – Blackburn, Lancashire
George
Farndale, 44, general labourer
Mary
Agnes Farndale, 45, cotton weaver
Gladys
Farndale, 13, cotton weaver at the commercial mill, Cambridge Street, Great
Harwood
Annie
Farndale, 8, at school
1930
Manchester Evening News 27 November 1930: GIRLS’ STORIES OF HARDSHIPS. FROM MILL TO DOMESTIC
SERVICE. REPLY TO UMPIRE. THREE MADE TO SLEEP IN DINING ROOM. Although both
union and Labour Exchange officials in Blackburn and Great Harwood declined to
disclose the names of the 14 mill girls who had been disqualified from
unemployment relief by the official umpire for refusing office of domestic
service, I discovered today several girls in great Harwood who did accept such
work in Blackpool and Morecombe…. Recently Miss Margaret Mondfield,
the Minister of Labour, declared: “Domestic
service is both an honourable and skilled occupation, and I want to protest
most emphatically against any suggestion of loss of status in taking up such
work.” Unemployed mill girls of Great Harwood, however, are in bitter
disagreement with her. Miss Gladys Taylor, 20, an unemployed mill girl of Barn
Meadow Lane, Great Harwood, who with another girl, Miss Annie Farndale, 21,
of Townhouse cottage, Great Harwood, accepted domestic work in a boarding house
in Morecambe, related the following story: We found that we had to look
after 12 bedrooms that were occupied by 25 visitors. Three of us slept on a
bed couch in the dining room. It was midnight and often 1am before our
duties were finished and we were able to creep into bed. There were four
young men sleeping in a hut in the backyard, and the door from the yard into
the house led into the room where we slept. Our wages were 10s a week, from
which insurance was deducted. I only earned 12s 4d in tips during four weeks.
That was my first experience of domestic work, the girl said. I hope it will be
my last.
1934
Annie
Farndale married Walter Harrison at Orchard Street Primitive Methodist Church,
Great Harwood, Lancashire on 6 February 1934 (Non
Conformist Registers).
1939
1939
Register – Great Harwood, Lancashire
George
Farndale, state labourer, born 30 September 1877
Mary
A Farndale, unpaid domestic duties, born 6 March 1877
Annie
Harrison, unpaid domestic duties, married, born 14 November 1909
1989
Annie Harrison, born on 14 November 1909, died at the age of 79 in
1989 and her death was registered in Hyndburn and Rossendale, Lancashire in the
third quarter of 1989 (GRO Vol 40 page 1585).