Edward Arthur Minter

1896 - 1942  (46 years)

• Name	Edward Arthur Minter
  Birth	5 Jan 1896	Chatham, Kent   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	159
  _UID	B4903DA30894460A95B865BEAE846CAFCDAE
  Death	14 Jan 1942	HMS Drake   [2]
  Burial	Plympton St Mary Cemetery, Devon
  Notes	Scholar at Kings School, Canterbury. The Register for 1859 - 1931 reported: Michaelmas 1910 Minter, Edward Arthur. Son of Ernest Dearman Minter, Naval Surgeon, deceased: born 5 January 1896: Gym Pair 1913, 1914. 1 July 1914. Midshipman R.N. 1915: Sub Lieut. 1917: Acting Lieut. 1918. At Cambridge for course 1919. Lieut. Cdr. retd. Last known address: Electrical Dep., Great Western Railway of Buenos Aires Ltd, Buenos Aires. Ancestry.com.au - UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 has the following: 1. 25 July 1926: Edward Arthur Minter, 30, elec. engineer, arrived at London from La Plata, Argentina on the 'Highland Rover'. Address: B.A.Westn Rly, River Place Hse, E.C. 2. 9 October 1931: Edward A Minter, 35, railway employee, and Margaret Minter, 22, arrived at London from Buenos Aires on the 'Rodney Star'. Address: c/o Buenos Aires Western Railway, Finsbury Circus. The inclusion of two children as Edward and Margaret's is speculative (birth certificates would confirm or otherwise). As can be seen from the above shipping record, the couple returned to England in October 1931 and the first presumed child, John, was born in Q4 that year. The second child, Sebastian, was born in 1940. In both cases, mother's maiden name is shown as Kretzer, the only known instance of this name. Sebastian almost certainly died in the UK in 1998. 1939 Register - see brother John's Notes. The Commonwealth War Graves website has the death on 14 January 1942 of Lieut-Commander Edward Arthur Minter, aged 46, Royal Navy, HMS Drake. Cemetery: Plympton St Mary Churchyard. He apparently died from illness. Edward's gravestone records him as Lieutenant Commander E A Minter RN HMS Drake 14 January 1942.
  Person ID	I159	Folkestone, Kent
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Ernest Denman Minter,   b. Abt 1858, Southsea, Hants d. 9 Dec 1898, Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, Devon (Age ~ 40 years)
  Mother	Jane Frances Mary JACOB,   b. 29 Jun 1861, Chester, Cheshire d. 22 Sep 1945, Greenwich, London (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	7 Oct 1890	St Margaret in the West, London   [3, 4]
  	Married after banns. Ernest Denman Minter, 33, bachelor, surgeon, Royal Navy of 299 Vauxhall Bridge Road, father John Moolenburg Minter, inspector general Royal Navy. Jane Frances Mary Jacob, 29, spinster of 121 Victoria Street, father John Jacob (deceased), gentleman. Both signed full names (Jane signed with surname Minter, a mistake later corrected to Jacob). Witnesses H J Holder(?) Hogg, Elinor A Jacob, T Barnett, John Surtees Minter, H Jacob all signed. Marriage announced in London Daily News, 9 October 1890: MINTER-JACOB - 7th Oct, at St Margaret's, Westminster, by the Ven Archdeacon Farrar, DD, assisted by the Rev E M Phillipps-Treby, Rector of Forrabury and Minster, Cornwall, brother-in-law of the bridegroom Ernest Denman Minter Surgeon RN, second son of J M Minter, MD, RN, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets (retired), Honorary Physician to the Queen and Surgeon-Extraordinary to HRH the Prince of Wales, of Mount Priory, Plympton St Mary, Devon, to Jane Frances Mary Jacob, step-daughter and adopted child of H J Holder Hogg, Victoria-street, Westminster.
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret KRETZER,   b. 22 Jan 1909   d. 14 Jul 1994, Argentina (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	24 Dec 1930	Buenos Ayres, Argentina   [5]
  	According to Geo. Warden Haines in 'Memoirs of the Minter family', on 25 December 1930 appeared the following announcement in The Morning Post: Marriages: Minter-Kretzer - on 24 December 1930 at Buenos Ayres, Lieut.-Commr. Edward Arthur Minter, R.N., retired son of the late Staff Surgeon Ernest Denman Minter, R.N., and Mrs Minter, to Margaret, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Kretzer of Buenos Ayres.
  Children	1. John Ernest Francis Minter,   b. Dec 1931, Islington RD d. 24 Feb 2000, Argentina (Age ~ 68 years)   2. Joan Margaret Minter   3. Sebastian E Denman Minter,   b. 20 Jun 1940, Bedford RD d. Oct 1998, Camden RD (Age 58 years)
  Family ID	F75	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2009

  
  

• Headstones

  Edward Arthur Minter Gravestone in Plympton St Mary Churchyard, Devon

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] BMD index (Reliability: 3). Q1 1896 Medway 2a/617. Date from Valerie Page, May 2007. [S36] BMD index (Reliability: 3). Q1 1942 Plymouth 5b/632. Further details from CWGC website. [S36] BMD index, Q4 1890 St George's Hanover Square 1a/887. (Reliability: 3). [S198] Marriage register at findmypast.co.uk, June 2014. [S12] Cliff Minter.