Annie Maria (“Anna”) Farndale
25 October 1889 to 1936
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Ontario, Canada
1889
Annie
Maria Farndale, daughter of John George and Elizabeth (nee Sanderson)
Farndale (FAR00337), was born
in York, Ontario, Canada on 25 October 1889. (Letter)
1891
1891
Census of Canada - Etobicoke, York West, Ontario
John
G Farndle, 52, a farm labourer, methodist
Elizabeth
Farndle, 39
Charles
Farndle, 10
George
Farndle, 8
Albert Farndle, 7
Mark Farndle, 5
Martha T Farndle, 3
Anne
M Farndle, 1
Jonathan
Farr, 25, domestic
Sarah
B Farr, 22, his wife
1901
1901
Census – Peel Ontario
1911
1911
Census – Peel, Ontario
1920
Annie Maria Farndale, married Dan Kirk and lived
at Huttonville, Ontario.
(Letter). Annie Maria
Farndale, 30, daughter of George G Farndale and Elizabeth Sanderson Farndale,
married Thomas Ernest Kirk at Peel, Ontario on 30 June 1920 (Canada Marriages).
Thomas Ernest
Kirk was the son of Charles Kirk (1854 to 1930) and Ann (nee Medd) (“Annie”) Kirk
(1857 to 1939 and he was born on 22 May 1892 at Huttonville.
He served in the army from 29 April 1918.
Nestled
in the Credit Valley is the hamlet of
Huttonville, at the corner of Mississauga
Road and Queen Street/Embleton Road in the City of Brampton. Until just a few
years ago, it retained a splendid isolation from the suburban
frontier, several kilometres west of urbanized Brampton and north of the sprawling
business parks in northwest Mississauga. As such, Huttonville
maintained its historic character until quite recently, despite the addition of
a 1970s exurban subdivision on its north side.
When
I was growing up in Brampton, our family would visit one of the many apple
orchards for “pick-your-own” apples, which featured a tractor wagon ride. There
were also strawberry and raspberry fields that also had popular “pick-your-own”
seasons.
But
during the last five years, residential and industrial sprawl crept ever closer
to the historic community, to the point that Mississauga Road and Queen Streets
are now both being widened, and the remaining farms nearby have those telltale
white development notice signs posted in front. Huttonville
will likely retain some of its historic character, but will be lost
in a sea of tract houses and big box shopping.
Huttonville was first settled in the 1820s,
and was known as such names as “the Wolf’s Den“,
“Bully Hollow” and Brown’s Mills, after the last name of the founder of a grist
mill there. In 1855, a James Hutton bought the mills and renamed the
settlement Hutton’s Mills; the establishment of a post office decided the
permanent name, Huttonville.
Huttonville United Church, on a still-rural Embleton
Road The apple orchards
that once dominated this area are disappearing
The Reid Farmhouse
The
Beatty Farmhouse, prior to demolition Cleve View Farm, on
Mississauga Road north of Huttonville . How much
longer will it last?
Like nearby
Churchville, Huttonville had its own
volunteer fire station, until it was closed last year when a fire hall
staffed by a professional crew opened nearby, closing both. Huttonville
still has a rural elementary school and a church on Embleton Road. Nearby are
several nursery greenhouses (the last gasp of Brampton’s once-dominant
greenhouse industry) and apple orchards.
The
most interesting landmark is the former McMurchy Woolen Mill and generating
station. The mill is boarded up, yet most of the rooftop signage remains
intact. The dam and reservoir that powered the mill was also tapped to provide
hydro-electricity to the community and to nearby Brampton, a busy railway and
industrial town.
As
elsewhere in Toronto’s suburban frontier, the landscape is littered with vacant
houses; exurban ranch houses from the 1950s and 1960s, and old Victorian and
Edwardian farmhouses. Most of these vacant homes are demolished to make way for
new subdivisions and industrial parks, or because they stand in the way of road
widening schemes.
Two
late Victorian farmhouses in the Huttonville area
experienced very different fates. The Reid Farmhouse,
which sat on Mississauga Road, facing west since 1894, was moved to a new
location, facing east on
Royal West Drive, a new residential street. The relocation
was to make way for a Wal-Mart and Home Depot. The plan is to restore the
farmhouse as a private residence, next to new single-family houses on
a residential street.
The
Beatty farmhouse, built in 1897, was located on
Steeles Avenue west of Mississauga Road. Last year, the local heritage
board fought for its preservation, as it sat on land designated for industrial
uses. The developer offered the house to the city, and secured
the perimeter to keep out vandals, squatters and arsonists. But,
unfortunately, the house was demolished in
December last year, as the city refused to cover the costs of moving and
maintaining it.
Like nearby
Churchville, Huttonville boasted its own
volunteer fire hall, both since replaced by a new professionally-staffed fire
station to the south on Mississauga Road.
1921
1921
census of Canada - Main Street, Peel, Ontario
Ernest
Kirk, 29
Annie
Kirk, 31
1922
Mary
Inez Kirk was born in 1922 (census). She married Fred Aziz and lived
to the age of 97, passing away on 17 December 2018 (obituary).
1931
1931
census of Canada – Peel, Ontario
1956
Anna
M Kirk, born 25 October 1889, died on 2 May 1956 and was buried at Brampton
cemetery, Peel (Monumental Record).
1966
Thomas
Ernest Kirk died on 16 September 1966 (Monumental Record).