Educator.
Born at Ontario on 16 October 1863, daughter of Jane Currey (1828-1904) and Francis Kelty (1833-1907), she came to Manitoba where she was a long-time schoolteacher.
She was Principal of Starbuck School (1905) then she joined the Winnipeg School District where she was a teacher at Martin School (1907-1909), Lord Selkirk School (1910-1913), and Alexandra School (1913-1933), retiring in 1933. She resided with her sister Ellen Cooney Kelty (c1866-1943, also a teacher) at 469 William Avenue (c1911) and later lived at 180 Chestnut (c1934). She was an active member of Holy Trinity Anglican Church. She moved to British Columbia around 1937.
She died unmarried at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia on 8 February 1953. Her cremains were interred in the Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Death registration [Jane Kelty], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Deaths and funerals [Mary Fisher], Winnipeg Free Press, 1 October 1934, page 2.
Death notice [Ellen C. Kelty], Winnipeg Free Press, 16 March 1943, page 17.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 17 March 1943, page 17.
Death registrations [Ellen Cooney Kelty, Frances Elizabeth Kelty], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Jane Currey Kelty, FindAGrave.
We thank Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 13 November 2025
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