Frances Ann Boultbee:Frances Ann (b1865) Boultbee (1865 - ?)

 Frances, known as Fanny, was the eldest daughter of Washington Boultbee and Bourne:Elizabeth Sophia Elizabeth Sophia Bourne. She was born at the family homestead Thornvale in Ancaster Township, Canada West (now Ontario) on October 20, 1855.
 Her father died in 1875.  The following year, her mother Eliza began to sell the farm properties in Lots 35 and 36 in the First Concession of Ancaster Township.  The sales were completed by 1880, and by early 1882, Eliza moved with her unmarried children, except
Frances, to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, where her eldest son Boultbee:John (b1851) John had settled the previous year.  Two of Eliza's adult children, Boultbee:Edith (b1857) Edith and Boultbee:Mary Anne (b1860) Minnie were godmothers at the baptism of John and Elizabeth's daughter Boultbee:Kathleen Mary Kathleen Mary at St. Mary's Church, Portage la Prairie St. Mary's Church, Portage la Prairie, on June 18, 1882.  Both families moved to Vancouver by about 1886.  Frances who was working in Toronto, stayed behind.
 Frances was employed as Superintendent at the Infants Home & Infirmary, Toronto Infants Home & Infirmary (see next page) 21 St. Mary Street in Toronto.  In the summer of 1889, she took a holiday to Vancouver to visit her mother, and three years later she moved from Toronto to Vancouver to live with her mother, and to take care of her until her mother's death in 1926.
 Boultbee:Frances Ann (b1855) Frances Ann's mother had kept the 54 old family letters dating from 1793, and upon her mother's death, Frances kept them.  Her great-nephew, Gardner Boultbee:Jack Gardner Boultbee, was lent the letters in 1939 to transcribe and typewrite them for the family, and we are fortunate that this project was completed.  The letters are now with the editors, and photocopies are with Paul Boultbee:Paul Gordon Boultbee in Red Deer, Alberta Red Deer, Alberta.
 Frances lived on in Vancouver.  Among more recent family letters, there are two from her written in 1939 to Gardner Boultbee:Jack Gardner Boultbee.  She was hoping to write her memories of the family for him.  She must have written them, for Gardner had prepared brief biographies of family members who were two generations before his time.  She lived at 1050 Jervis Street, Vancouver, and wrote of moving shortly to old St. Paul's Rectory, just around the corner.
The date of her death is unknown at present.

FRANCES ANN BOULTBEE

 The Infants Home & Infirmary, Toronto Infants Home & Infirmary was founded in 1875 by a group of Toronto area women, one of whom was a Mrs. Mulock.  The Editor believes that she was Mrs. Mary Mulock:Mary Mulock of Newmarket, Ontario Newmarket for two of her daughters and her grandson's wife followed her on the volunteer list and on the Executive of the Home.  Mary Mulock died in December 1886, the year in which Frances Ann Boultbee is listed in the City Directory as Superintendent of the Home.  It seems reasonable to assume that Mary Mulock, and her daughter Marian Boultbee, would have spoken to Frances.  In 1882, when Marian returned from her stay in India, she joined the Home as a volunteer, and eventually became head of its managing board.  A letter written by Marian on the Home's letterhead, has survived.  It was addressed to a Mr. & Mrs. Somerset, Mr. & Mrs. Somerset who had donated funds to furnish a ward in memory of their baby daughter.  The letter mentions that a receipt will come from the Treasurer, Mrs. Mulock:Rosamond Rosamond Monk (née Mulock), the sister of Marian Boultbee.  The fourth member of our family to be associated with the Home was Nan Greer:Mary Anne (Nan) Greer Boultbee, daughter-in-law of Marian, and mother of our Canadian Editor.  The ladies would meet once each week to mend the clothing and bedding for the infants, and would also meet as a management group to run the institution.  The Home was established to assist women with infants born out of wedlock.  In the 1950s
, the Home merged with the Children's Aid Society, Toronto Children's Aid Society of Toronto, which was serving the needs of children older than infants.


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