Edwin Minter

1833 - Bef 1865  (32 years)

• Name	Edwin Minter
  Birth	4 Feb 1833	St. Annes, Soho, London   [1]
  Christening	9 Apr 1833	St. Annes, Soho, London   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	C2AB94AD48514EA68951D1DE2EA807A243DE
  Death	Bef 28 Feb 1865	St George Hanover Square RD   [2]
  Burial	28 Feb 1865	Highgate Cemetery of St James, Swains Lane, St Pancras, London   [3]
  Notes	Succeeded to his father's business in 1857 at 51 and 52 Frith Street, Soho, London. Listed in Post Office Directory 1858 & 1859 as Edwin Minter, upholsterers, cabinet maker, decorator, manufacturer of Bath, Brighton, Merlin &c chairs, patentee of the Archimedean & self-active reclining chairs, 51 & 52 Frith Street, London W. In 1858, Edwin's marriage to Sarah Margaret was listed, Cause no. 23, as a divorce case. Wife's petition. A full report on the divorce hearing appeared in The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 12, 1860; pg. 8; Issue 23801 (source Gale NewsVault, September 2012). Sarah Margaret claimed her husband mistreated her and committed adultery and was granted a decree nisi, with costs. It was said that a child was born, and died within a few months, during the period in which Sarah Margaret was being abused. This must have been between March 1854 (when the couple married) and March 1855 (when Sarah Margaret left Edwin) but I cannot find a matching birth or death index entry. The divorce papers are at Ancestry's UK, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1911. James Earley has found a report of the hearing, which goes into a good deal of detail about Edwin's mistreatment of his wife. The report was in Reynold's Newspaper on 16 December 1860. A report in The Morning Chronicle of Thursday May 17 1855 gave details of "a murderous assault" by four men on Edwin Minter, in which one of the defendants "flourishing a chopper ... wounded severely ... Mr Minter upon the arm, and nearly cut off the top of one of his fingers.". Edwin had been allowed by his father-in-law Mr Knight "quiet possession for a period of eleven months" of a property in Eversholt Street, St Pancras. It's unclear what caused this fracas. London Gazette 16 August 1859: NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Edwin Minter and Richard Parsons Chaplin, carrying on business as Invalid and Reclining Chair Manufacturers, at Nos. 51 and 52, Frith-street, in the parish of St. Ann, Westminster, and Newport-market, both in the county of Middlesex, under the firm or style of Minter and Chaplin, was this day dissolved, by mutual consent. And notice is hereby further given that all debts due by the said firm will be paid by the said Richard Parsons Chaplin, and that all debts due to the said firm are to be paid to the said Richard Parsons Chaplin.'97 Dated the 15th day of August, 1859. R. P. Chaplin. Edwin Minter. 1861 census: at the White Hart, Twickenham, Middlesex, Edwin (visitor, married, 27, gentleman). Buried aged 31 of 10 South Street, Grosvenor Square, London.
  Person ID	I225	Canterbury, Kent
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	George Minter,   b. Bef 3 May 1803, Sittingbourne, Kent d. 1 May 1887, Margate, Kent (Age ~ 83 years)
  Mother	Mary Eliza BRIGGS,   b. Abt 1799, London d. 3 Mar 1856, Soho, London (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	15 Mar 1827	St. George Hanover Square, Westminster, London   [4]
  	George Minter a bachelor of this parish and Mary Eliza Briggs a spinster of the parish of St James Westminster were married in this church by licence this fifteenth day of March in the year 1827. Both signed. Witnesses Alice Wilson, Edward Spittle both signed.
  Family ID	F59	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Margaret KNIGHT,   b. Bef 25 Dec 1835, Strand, London d. 27 Oct 1904, Brighton, Sussex (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	25 Mar 1854	St Michael's, Burleigh Street, Strand, London   [2, 5, 6]
  	The Times marriage announcement reads: "On the 25 inst. [of March 1854], at St Michael's, Burleigh-street, Strand, by the Rev. A G Edouart, MA, Edwin, eldest son of George Minter, of Frith-street, Soho-square, to Sarah Margaret, only daughter of William Knight, of 357, Strand." According to the marriage register the couple married at St Michael's District Church, St Martin in the Fields. Married by licence. Edwin Minter, 21, bachelor, upholsterer of Strand, father George Minter, upholsterer. Sarah Margaret Knight, 18, spinster of Strand, father William Knight, fishmonger. Both signed full names. Witnesses William Knight, Elizabeth Toleman both signed.
  Marital status	1858
  	Divorced
  Family ID	F247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2021

  
  

• Sources

  [S146] Baptismal register at findmypast.co.uk, June 2014. [S14] BMD index. [S58] London Metropolitan Archives at Ancestry.co.uk, September 2009 and later. [S17] Cliff Minter. [S134] The Times Digital Archive, September 21012, "Marriages." Times [London, England] 27 Mar. 1854: 10. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 13 Sep. 2012. (Reliability: 3). [S145] Marriage register at findmypast.co.uk, June 2014 and later.