- Role
- Secondary
- Profession
- Widow
- Birthdate
- 07/29/1851
- Relationship Status
- Widowed
- Playby
- AI Audrey
- Height
- 5' 3
- Build
- Petite
- Hair Color
- Auburn
- Eye Color
- Light Blue
- Physical Description
A fragile and petite beauty, worn away by care and sorrow
- Reputation
Spotless reputation
- Name History
née Brookfield
- Employment Details
Never done a day's work in her life
- Expertise
Dealing with servants; a talented amateur artist, but she has not picked up a brush since the death of her children
- Kith & Kin
Husband: Major James Frederick Ashby, R.E. (deceased)
Sons: Robert and Julius (deceased)
Her husband died in an accident in 1874 and her two infant sons died two years ago in a outbreak of cholera
- Timeline
29th July 1851:Born Mary Jane Brookfield in Coleraine, Co. Antrim, Ireland, daughter of the protestant Anglo-Irish Brookfield family
1869: Married to Major J.F. Ashby, R.E. a veteran of the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868
1870: Birth of first son, Julius in Cheshire, England
1871: Move to Canada, birth of second son Robert in London, Ontario
1873: Ashby working on engineering projects around British Columbia, settles family across the border in nearest civilised town, Kalispell, Montana
November 1874: Major Ashby killed in accident constructing a bridge near Baynes Lake, B.C.
July 1875: Robert and Julius fall ill neither survive. Felicity cannot bear to be parted from her dear little boys, even in death, and remains in Kalispell but remains in deep mourning and hardly ever leaves the large house acquired by her husband. She is tended to by her old Irish cook, Mrs Kilpatrick and a locally hired maid-of-all-work Herschelina Colquitt.
Herschelina Colquitt
Mrs Kilpatrick
- Written By
- Javia