Family: Bertie Minter / Edith May SAMS (F739)

• Male Bertie Minter

  
  

  Birth	12 Nov 1907	New Lambton, New South Wales RD
  Death	6 Jan 1986	New Lambton, New South Wales RD
  Burial	Aft 6 Jan 1986	Beresfield Crematorium, NSW, Australia
  Marriage	2 Nov 1929  [1]	New Lambton, NSW, Australia  [1]
  Other Spouse	Joyce NORBERY | F704
  Marriage	9 Apr 1939	Hamilton, NSW, Australia
  Father	Joseph George Minter | F651 Group Sheet
  Mother	Emily Maud HATHERLEY | F651 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Edith May SAMS

  
  

  Birth	1909	Tamworth, NSW, Australia RD
  Death	1992	New South Wales, Australia
  Burial
  Other Spouse	Elwyn Hilton BRYANT | F1834
  Marriage	18 Dec 1940	Queensland, Australia
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• Notes

  Married: The NSW archives contain papers from 1 Jun 1937 to 14 Nov 1938 relating to Bertie and Edith's divorce. The index to the papers mentions Elwyn Hilton Bryant. The following came from Trove. It was originally published on 8 April 1938 in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate: "MINTER v. MINTER. A decree nisi, returnable in six months, was granted after the Judge had heard an application by Bertie Minter, a shop assistant, of New Lambton, for the dissolution of his marriage with Edith May Minter (formerly Sams) on the ground of adultery. Mr. T. A. Brays (Messrs. Braye, Cragg and Cohen) appeared for the petitioner. Petitioner said they were married on November 2, 1929, by a Lay Methodist minister. There were no children. On November 11, 1935, while he was at work, respondent left a note telling him she was leaving. He later went to Killarney (Queensland), when he obtained information from the police. Sergeant J. A. Fraser, of Brisbane, said that he had previously been stationed at Killarney. There a man named Elwyn Hilton Bryant and a woman, known as Edith May Bryant, lived as man and wife."

  
  

• Sources

  [S95] New South Wales Register of Births, Deaths & Marriages, June 2008, reg no. 19490/2929. (Reliability: 3).