George Austin Minter

1890 - 1970  (80 years)

• Name	George Austin Minter
  Birth	9 Apr 1890	24 Margery Park Road, West Ham, Essex   [1]
  Christening	16 Apr 1890	Emmanuel, Forest Gate, London   [2]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	7BB0C168FEE14FC181589D3DF9B7951853E2
  Death	18 Apr 1970	8 Gainsborough Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea   [1, 3]
  Notes	Ancestry.com has some of George's service record in connection with his WW1 pension claim. He joined 8Bn City of London Rifles on 5 January 1910 , aged 19 years 9 months, a clerk at C & R Light Ltd, Cartram Road, Cl, address 3 Khadars Road, Forest Gate. He was discharged on termination of engagement after 4 years, in 1914. Next-of-kin Walter John Minter, same address as above. Papers seem to be missing - there's no indication of what George did while in the army or what the pension claim was based on. 1921 census: at 326, Romford Road, West Ham, Essex (all MINTER), George Austin (head, 31y 2m, married, born Forest Gate, Essex, furniture manufacturer, employer, at 475/7 Betnal Green Road, London E2), Janet (wife, 40y 9m, married, born Baildon, Yorkshire, home duties) and Alice Maud (aunt, 50y 4m, single, born Stratford, Essex, trained nurse (sick) on own account). London Gazette 27 January 1922: In the High Court of Justice.'97 In Bankruptcy. In the Matter of a Bankruptcy Petition filed the 15th day of December, 1921. To GEORGE AUSTIN MINTER (trading as J. Edwards & Co.), sued in the Bankruptcy Notice as G. A. Minter (trading as J. Edwards & Co.), of 475 and 477, Bethnal Green-road, Bethnal Green, in the county of London, Furniture Manufacturer. TAKE notice, that a bankruptcy petition has been presented against you to this Court by Richard Gregory, of Numbers. 16 and 16A, Fuller-street, Bethnal Green, in the county of London, Builder and Decorator, and the Court has ordered that the publication of the notice in the London Gazette and in the Daily Telegraph newspaper shall be deemed to be service of the petition upon you; and further take notice, that the said petition will be heard at this Court on the 15th day of February, 1922, at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon, on which day you are required to appear, and if you do not appear the Court may make a receiving order against you in your absence. The petition can be inspected by you on application at this Court.'97 Dated this 17th day of January, 1922. 067 HERBERT J. HOPE, Registrar. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Mar 26, 1929; pg. 5; Issue 45161 carried a lengthy report of a case in which George Austin Minter sued for damages for slander. The case went on into 1930 and reached the House of Lords, where in March George Minter's appeal against an earlier decision was allowed. Subject of a further bankruptcy in 1932. 1939 Register: at 92 Lewis Road, Chislehurst and Sidcup U.D., Kent Minter, George A born 9 Apr 1890, married, solicitor's managing clerk, retired Minter, Janet born 29 Sep 1880, married hospital traine nurse.
  Person ID	I102	Eyke, Suffolk
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Walter John Minter,   b. 9 Jun 1860, 10 Custom House Terrace, Plaistow, Essex d. 8 Oct 1930, West Ham RD (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Ellen Sophie HEWETT,   b. 3 Jul 1859, Stepney, London d. 22 May 1938, Barnet RD (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	21 Dec 1884	Parish Church, West Ham, Essex   [1]
  Family ID	F27	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Janet WALKER,   b. 29 Sep 1880, Baildon, Yorkshire d. 6 May 1949, Southend on Sea, Essex (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	26 Dec 1914	St Matthews, Hammersmith, London   [4]
  	Married by licence. George Austin Minter, 24, bachelor, wholesale furniture maker of 26 Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, London E, father Walter John Minter, patentee. Janet Walker, 33, spinster of 128 Sinclair Road, West Kensington, father Thomas Walker, stuff merchant. Both signed full names. Witnesses Reginald Holmes Walker and W J Minter. George and Janet appear to have gone through two marriage sevices. Graham Minter has two marriage cerificates and there are two marriage registrations. The first marriage took place on 23 July 1914 at Fulham Register Office. The witnesses have no obvious family relationship to the couple. The marriage is in the BMD index in Q3 1914 Fulham 1a/784. The second marriage took place at St Matthew Church, Hammersmith - see above. The marriage is in the BMD index in Q4 1914 Fulham 1a/680. Graham Minter comments as follows: the question of George Austin's two marriage certificates, I understand that, when a couple marry first in a Register Office and later in a church, the minister is not supposed to record the second wedding in the civil register, which suggests that either (a) he made a mistake or (b) he was not told that they had already married in a register office.
  Family ID	F100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2012

  
  

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  [S7] BMD index. [S124] Essex Baptism Index 1538-1920 at findmypast.co.uk. [S59] Graham Minter from GRO certificate, May 2012. [S28] London Metropolitan Archives at Ancestry.co.uk, October 2009 and later, Q3 1914 Fulham 1a/784. (Reliability: 3).