Reginald Arthur Farndale
20 April 1915 to 1996
FAR00822A
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Cheshire
1915
Reginald Arthur Farndale
was born on 20 April 1915 (1939 Register), the son of Robert and
Sarah (nee Samuels) Farndale (FAR00455)
(1921 census)
who moved to Cheshire, and perhaps his illness meant his birth was never
registered.
1921
1921
Census - Chester
Robert
Farndale, 60, waiter at the Grosvenor Hotel, Chester
Sarah
Farndale, 38
Robert
Farndale, 8 Years 5 Months
Ethel
M Farndale, 7 Years 1 Month
Reginald
A Farndale, 6 Years 2 Months
Cecil
Farndale, 4 Years 11 Months
Walter
Farndale, 1 Year 2 Months
W H
Browne, 41
Charles
Audley, 24
William
Rooney, 60
1926
There was a
tragic case regarding Reginald, aged 11, and a child in a river in Chester
reported in the Evening Herald (Dublin) 22 October
1926; Leicester Evening Mail 22 October 1926;
Grimsby Daily Telegraph 22 October 1926; and
The Vote, 26 November 1926.
1939
1939
Register – Cranage Hall Institution, Congleton,
Cheshire.
Reginald A Farndale,
born 29 April 1915, patient, in the language of the age ‘certified mentally
defective’.
Cranage
Hall and its estate were bought in 1929 by the Cheshire Joint Board for the
Mentally Defective, which was constituted in 1928 under Section 29 of the
Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 and consisted of representatives of the County
Council and of the County Boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey and the City of
Chester. The Hospital was opened in August 1932 to accommodate 62 female
mentally-defective patients. In 1948, with the establishment of the National
Health Service, the Hospital was transferred to the control of the Cranage Hall
Hospital Management Committee of the Manchester Regional Hospital Board. By
1952, the Hospital had 520 beds for male and female patients. On the
reorganisation of the NHS in 1974, the Hospital was transferred to the Cheshire
Area Health Authority, and on its abolition in 1982, to Crewe District Health
Authority. It now (1988) has 375 beds for mentally handicaped
patients.
The Hospital Management
Committee also managed the Mary Dendy Hospital (for further details and lists
of records see NHM 11) and Wrenbury Hostel and Tabley Hostel. Wrenbury was
originally a tuberculosis training colony established by Cheshire County Council
in 1920, but by 1951 both it and Tabley were administered by the National
Association of Mental Health. On 1 April 1951 they were transferred to the
National Health Service. Both hostels were closed in 1981.
1996
Reginald Arthur
Farndale, born 20 April 1915 died in on 2 February 1996 and was cremated on 8
February 1996 (Burial and Cremation Index)
and his death was registered in South Cheshire District in February 1996 (GRO District 3411B Register Number B10A entry 214).