Mary Farndale

Mary Farndale

Mary Frances was born on 22 January 1889, the eighth child of Martin and Catherine and the third daughter. She was born at Tidkinhowe. At the age of five, she went to school with her brothers and sisters at Charltons and then, like them, at the age of 11 she went to Boosbeck Council School. She would have left at 14 in 1903.

Mary studied confectionary and moved to Horsforth near Harrogate and Leeds. She met and married George Brown in 1920 and they had one daughter, Ena. George Brown died in ?. Mary continued to live at Leeds, but when her daughter married Crosbie Shields in ?, she moved to live alongside them at Low Gatherley, near Scorton.