Audrey Celina Farndale
15 July 1916 to 5 February 2005
FAR00827
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1916
Audrey Celina Farndale, daughter of
Mark and Mary (nee Wiltz) Farndale (FAR00603), was born in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada on 15 July 1916 (Letter, Obituary).
Alberta and her family went to live with her parents
after Mark Farndale died in 1918.
1921 Canada Census – 640 Furby Street, Winnipeg
Caroline Wiltse, 60
Annie Wiltse, 38
Alberta Farndale, 40
Lilian Farndale,
9
Lloyd Farndale, 8
Audrey Farndale, 4
Albert Kitchen, 44
Ben Wooden, 37
Leonard White, 28
David Samuels, 27
Roland R Nickleis, 39
1926
1926 Prairie Census of Canada - Manitoba
Lillian Farndale, 14
Alberta Farndale, 45, widow
Lloyd Farndale, 13
Audrey Farndale, 9
Winona Atkinson, 51
George Field, 30
Edith Ryke, 38
Ellen Weatherell ,
29
1938
The Winnipeg Free Press,
21 July 1938: Engagements: Mrs. Mark Farndale announces
the engagement of her daughter, Audrey Celina, to Mr. Ernest Stewart McKelvie,
only son of Mrs. Thomas McKelvie. The wedding will take place quietly
August 19.
Audrey Celina Farndale, married Ernest Everitt
Steward McKelvie, at 88 Maryland Street, Manitoba on 19 August 1938. Rev PT
Pilkey officiated. (Letter, Manitoba Vital
Statistics Department)
The Winnipeg
Free Press, 23 August 1938: McKELVIE-FARNDALE.
Friday, Aug. 19th, the marriage was solemnized of Miss Audrey Celina Farndale
to Mr. Ernest Stewart McKelvie, at 88 Maryland Street. Rev. P. T. Pilkey
officiated.
Audrey and Ernest had two daughters,
Margaret (“Terry”) McKelvie and Bernice McKelvie.
British Columbia
1953
Audrey moved to British Columbia in 1953, first to Chilliwack,
then to Vancouver and finally to Victoria (obituary).
She was employed by the Hudson Bay Company as a comptometer
operator and later by the Federal Government in a secretarial position.
The
comptometer was the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical
calculator, patented in the United States by Dorr E. Felt in 1887.
A
key-driven calculator is extremely fast because each key adds or subtracts its
value to the accumulator as soon as it is pressed and a skilled operator can
enter all of the digits of a number simultaneously, using as many fingers as
required, making them sometimes faster to use than electronic calculators.
Consequently, in specialized applications, comptometers remained in use in
limited numbers into the early 1990s, but with the exception of museum pieces,
they have all now been superseded by electronic calculators and computers.
1982
Gordon Farndale (FAR00819) with Audrey
McKelvie (nee Farndale) daughter of Mark Farndale, about 1982
1998
Audrey's husband Ernie died in 1998.
2005
Audrey Celina McKelvie died on 5
February 2005.
The Victoria Times-Colonist, 2
November 2005: Obituary. Audrey Celina Farndale McKelvie. McKelvie,
Audrey C. McKELVIE, Audrey C. July 15, 1916 February
5, 2005 Audrey crossed the bar mid morning Saturday.
She was born in Winnipeg and moved to BC in 1953, first to Chilliwack, then to
Vancouver and finally to Victoria. She was employed by the Hudson Bay Company
as a comptometer operator and later by the Federal Government in a secretarial
position. She is survived by daughters Margaret (Terry)
and Bernice, by grandsons Michael (Gail), David (Kate) and Brian (Jenn)
Sagar and by great-grandchildren Lynn and Tom. Audrey's husband Ernie died in
1998. Her grandsons will remember her for her generosity in support of their
education. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be
no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems
asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the
boundless deep Turns again home. -Tennyson No service at Audrey's request. Private
cremation. 38944