Elsie Gwendoline Minter

1889 - 1973  (83 years)

• Name	Elsie Gwendoline Minter
  Birth	7 Jan 1889	Ash, Kent   [1]
  Christening	7 Apr 1889	Ash next Sandwich, Kent   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	163
  _UID	F3A2039DC3BB468DB35A893419A86976F09B
  Death	1973	Melbourne, Australia   [3]
  Notes	1911 census: Elsie Gwendoline (22, single, born Ash next Sandwich) was staying at The Warden Hotel, 105 High Street, Rye, Sussex. She worked for the Post Office as a postal sorting clerk & telegraphist. Elsie was witness at a trial at the Old Bailey on 10 September 1912. The following is from www.oldbaileyonline.org: ATKINS, Maria (39, laundress) , forging and uttering, knowing the same to be forged, a certain order for the payment of 10s., with intent to defraud. Mr. H. T. Hewett prosecuted. VIOLET KNOWLES . On July 15 I asked prisoner, who was living with me at 19, Sirdar Road, Notting Dale, Kensington, to take in a telegraphic money order, which I was expecting, and take care of it for me, and I would give her something for doing so. I then went out. Ten shillings money order produced is payable for me, and is signed "Violet Knowles, her mark." I never received that order; I did not sign it with my mark, nor did I authorise anybody to do so on my behalf. I next saw prisoner on the next morning, Tuesday, July 16, at 11.30; she was asleep; I woke her, and asked her if she had received the telegram, and where the telegram was. She seemed very dazed and stupid; she looked round and handed me a piece of blank brown paper. I threw it down and said'it was no good. I asked her would she tell me the amount of the order. She said it was for 10s. I asked her how much money she had left. She said it would he all right, and searched under the pillows and the corners of her bed, but there was not a copper in the room. I then called in a policeman, and she was arrested. Prisoner was quite sober when I first told her about the money order; she was not sober when I woke her up next day. ELSIE GWENDOLINE MINTER , clerk, Norland Square Post Office. On July 16, between 8 and 9 a.m., prisoner tendered money order produced, saying "Will you cash this for me?"I asked her what was the sender's name, and she replied correctly. I then asked her to sign it; she said she could not write, could she make her cross. I said "You are Violet Knowles?"She said "Yes." She then made her cross, I paid her the 10s., and she went away. Detective DONALD MACMILLAN, F Division. On July 16, at about 8.30 p.m., I was at the Notting Dale Police Station when prisoner was brought in and charged with forging a telegraphic order. She said, "I will stand all the racket of it, I took the letter in, and I changed it this morning and spent the money; it is nothing to do with See original Click to see original Prisoner's statement before the Magistrate: "I am guilty of it; I was quite drunk, and remember nothing of it; I never signed the order." MARIA ATKINS (prisoner, not on oath). I am very sorry, I have never done it before. Verdict, Guilty. Prisoner was stated to be addicted to drink, and to have been four times convicted of drunkenness. Sentence: Three months' hard labour." Per findmypast.com Elsie Gwendoline, 28, departed in 1915 from Southampton for Adelaide, Australia.
  Person ID	I163	Ash, Kent
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Albert Edward Minter,   b. 14 Sep 1860, Worth, Kent d. 30 Mar 1939, Ash, Kent (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Rosa Eastes CAVELL,   b. 17 Feb 1861, Deal, Kent d. 1 Mar 1939, Eastry RD (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	20 Dec 1887	St Leonards Deal, Kent   [1]
  	Married by banns. Albert a bachelor market gardener age 27 of Ash; Rosa a spinster age 26 of Wellington Road, Deal daughter of Thomas Eastes Cavell an accountant. sign/sign. Thos E Cavell, Celia H Cavell, Jessie A Cavell, G R witnesses.
  Family ID	F68	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Arthur CAESAR,   b. 1890, England d. 1980, Victoria, Australia (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	20 Oct 1915	St Paul Church, Adelaide, Australia   [3, 4]
  Children	1. Iris Hazel CAESAR,   b. 2 Aug 1918, Mildura, Victoria, Australia d. 16 Jan 2006, Victoria, Australia (Age 87 years)   2. Betty Margaret CAESAR,   b. 1925, Australia d. 1933 (Age 8 years)
  Family ID	F70	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2011

  
  

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  Elsie Gwendoline Minter born 1889, Ash, Kent, eldest daughter of Albert Edward Minter

  
  

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  [S3] BMD index. [S198] Cliff Minter, from Ash next Sandwich PR, August 2010. [S5] Margaret Young. [S216] Digger - South Australian Marriages, Registrations 1842-1916.